Neither Steelers nor NE are tanking a season for a QB.
exactly...
and while obviously the higher you go up to get a qb the better your odds are of finding a good one, the 2 most recent MVPs got drafted by teams in contention late in the previous year trading up to get their guy - both were not the first taken in their class (not even close)
its partly why i never really bought the miami tank as a strategy (also the fact that coaches and players are never going to purposefully tank if they want a job the next year)
the trick i guess is evaluating well lol and getting it right when you do go up to get a qb
but im looking through previous drafts and trying to find the last qb that a team tanked for who even made it to the playoffs (let alone went further than that) - maybe the Colts and Andrew Luck in 2012...
before that point we're getting into periods of time when i knew very little about the draft at all
but even then that's 8 seasons of football where a tanking team has not acquired a qb who has got to a playoff berth ever in their career (too early to tell on baker mayfield but not boding well for others)
and part of that is that not many teams actually tank... so there's not a huge sample size - not in the least because in 2 of the last 3 drafts the guy touted as the guy people were tanking for was not the first qb taken (scam for sam in 2017 and tank for tua in 2019 - im assuming burrow is going number 1)
so you're exactly right - and tbh i would not be surprised if NE take Jordan Love at 23 this year and see if they can't develop him