Football betting enthusiasts often pay considerable attention to quarterbacks when handicapping NFL betting lines. The top quarterbacks in the league naturally tend to attract lots of football betting action, but each year the football betting world must accommodate relatively unknown quarterbacks who were not even picked in the first few rounds of the draft. While NFL betting fans should certainly approach such players with skepticism, there are many examples of such quarterbacks achieving amazing levels of success in the NFL.
Football betting fans naturally feel more comfortable when wagering on proven quarterbacks who the gamblers know can lead their teams to victories. Consequently, quarterbacks like Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are hugely popular among NFL betting fans and gamblers are willing to back these quarterbacks’ teams even when they are reflected as huge favorites in the football betting lines. When teams begin playing a new quarterback without any previous NFL experience, football betting fans are logically much more confident if the quarterback was a star at the college level and picked in the fist couple of rounds in the NFL draft. NFL betting veterans know that success at the NCAA level does not necessarily equate to success at the NFL level, but it is certainly the best indicating factor available. Nevertheless, there are countless examples of quarterbacks picked at the top of the NFL draft who then fail to deliver in the NFL. For example, Ryan Leaf, who was selected by the Chargers as the second overall pick in 1998, is considered one of the biggest draft busts of all time.