The most notable exception is the guy who seems to be the one everyone loves to hate...but I can't figure why;
Tom Brady. 11 and 3 his first year as starter after Bledsoe got his bell rung good in 2001.
Elway is a lot like Montana and Marino in one key respect: There was no correlation between their early success (or lack of such) and the drafting position of the teams they played for — because they were not top draft picks coming out of college. Marino was selected at the bottom of the first round, Montana was (I think) a third-round pick in 1979, and Brady was a sixth-round pick for New England in 2000.