Todd Collins: Best Backup QB in the NFL?

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Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Depends on what you value. If you want a young guy waiting in the wings to be your future starter Quinn is your guy. If you want a vet who can step in and lead a team in crunch time (and has proven that he can), Collins is your guy.

What has Collins really "proven" though? If the unproven argument works against Quinn as an NFL QB, then it applies almost as well to Collins...who just happens to be 37 years old.

Collins hasn't even played a half season's worth of snaps since since 1997. He'll always have his place in Redskins history for what he helped the team accomplish last year...but like I said earlier, what we "know" about Todd Collins is simply us fans passing judgment on a guy who never hit any kind of adversity (or decent pass defense) last year before the season ended in Seattle.

So while I can give you the fact that based on what we've seen from him as a Redskin, he seems to be an ideal backup, I don't think anyone would be shocked if he were to play poorly this year if forced into action.