Deshaun Watson is arguably the greatest quarterback of the last decade and there is a lot more to that than just numbers.
Recently, Pro-Football Focus College recently put out their Top 4 quarterbacks of the last decade and Deshaun Watson was not among them. Instead, they had Cam Newton, Joe Burrow, Baker Mayfield, and Johnny Manziel.
The list is borderline comical and at best it is a sad display of blatant favoritism of average quarterbacks that played in the SEC.
Yes, I said average when talking about Cam Newton, Joe Burrow, Baker Mayfield, and Johnny Manziel. Sure, Newton and Burrow each had one of the greatest seasons college football has ever seen, but why are people willing to forget the rest of their careers because they were one-hit wonders?
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Baker Mayfield is proof that if you bounce around enough eventually you find a sticking point. He also stumbled upon one of the great young minds in college football with Lincoln Riley (much like Burrow did with Joe Brady) and Riley was able to build an offense around Baker.
Johnny Manziel had some highlight moments in college but he went 20-6 as a starter in two years at Texas A&M and never won anything of note.
Enter Deshaun Watson.
Where do you even begin with Deshaun Watson? Ending the South Carolina streak with a torn ACL? Leading Clemson to back to back national championships games for the first time in school history? How about being the first college quarterback to ever throw for 4,000 yards while also rushing for at least 1,000?
Would you start with the fact the Clemson lost just three games that he would start and finish? In just 38 games he accounted for 116 total touchdowns, does that factor into his greatness at all?
There are so many obvious reasons why Deshaun Watson was the best quarterback of the decade that it is truly unbelievable that any entity would leave him out of the conversation.
Oh! The College Football Hall of Fame named Deshaun Watson as the best quarterback of the decade when they announced their All-Decade team last August. When you leave one of the game’s greatest players out of your greatest of the decade conversation, you lose any credibility that you may have.