Underrated

With the NFL lockout about to come to an end there are a few players looking to land in new cities, especially at quarterback. One of those players may be the most underrated player in the entire league.

Many analyst have said that Vince Young should go to Philadelphia or to the Giants in New York and be a third string and try to rebuild a career by winning games when Mike Vick and Eli Manning are down.

Why not start? I would love to see Young suit up for my Miami Dolphins because Chad Henne sure isn't getting it done.

Young is winner, no way around that fact. He won a national championship in his final year at Texas beating the favored USC Trojans and their explosive team of Reggie Bush, Matt Leinhart and LenDale White; not to mention their immovable defense with an outstanding linebacker crew of Brian Cushing, Ray Maualuga and Clay Matthews.

If the NCAA knew about Bush's violations at that time he would even have a Heisman trophy to his name, but that is just college.

In the professional ranks Young has a record of 32-18 as a starter, he was benched by coach Jeff Fisher this last season with a passer rating of 98.6 which was his best ever as a pro, in 2009 he took an 0-6 Titan team and finished the season 8-8, he has passed for 41 touchdowns and thrown 7,764 yards.

Oh and he can run as well. He has 12 rushing touchdowns, 1,380 yards, averages 5.2 yards a carry, he has broken off 20 plus yard rushes 10 times and once for 40 that won the game against the Houston Texans in overtime.

These stats are just when he starts, I didn't even included the number of times he had to come in when he had to clean up Kerry Collins' mess.

Yeah, he had an off field incident last summer but this isn't about that, this is about cold hard stats. Young has been dealt a bad hand stuck on team where his coach didn't appreciate him.

Yes he has had a bad game here and there, I'm not putting him in the ranks of Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers but he is better then a lot of guys who are starting today and he is proven.

Young deserves to have a shot at starting, the guy wins, he is young, he is big, strong and he can run just as good as he can throw. He can find a way to win and usually does, not much of risk for a team looking for a quarterback to put at the helm.