That season, he played in 11 games, including five starts, and passed for 1,589 yards with 14 touchdowns. With the Broncos reeling at 0-3 to start the 1968 season and without better options, they made a quarterback change, inserting the 5-foot-10, 177-pound rookie into the starting lineup. Undeterred, Briscoe pushed for an opportunity to compete at quarterback and was impressive. One could definitely draw a line from what Briscoe and other pioneers endured to where things stand now at the beginning of the Era of the Black Quarterback.īriscoe played quarterback in college but, as was the standard wrongheaded policy of the time, the Denver Broncos drafted him as a defensive back because the AFL and NFL had no interest in Black men throwing passes. You feel good that you did something so we could even have a day with games with so many great Black quarterbacks.” “When you look at how they’ve played, and how they’re representing us, it makes you feel good that you did something to help. “These guys have so much talent, and they’ve been succeeding with so much grace,” he said. And Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes leads the Kansas City Chiefs against the Los Angeles Chargers, who are directed by their new starter Tyrod Taylor after moving on from Philip Rivers.Ī sensational lineup indeed, Briscoe said. Arizona Cardinals second-year player Kyler Murray, last season’s AP NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, faces Washington Football Team passer Dwayne Haskins, who was selected 14 picks after Murray in the 2019 draft. Former league MVP Cam Newton, who’s off to a good start in trying to revive his career with the New England Patriots, faces the Seattle Seahawks and Super Bowl winner Russell Wilson. The Houston Texans play host to the Baltimore Ravens, pitting Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson – last season’s Associated Press MVP – against Houston’s Deshaun Watson, the league’s second-highest paid player. Most Matchups Between Black Starting QBs – Single Week in NFL History 2020 Week 2 (4) Many within the group are also in the top tier of the league’s most important position. ET, every team on your screen will have a Black signal-caller atop its depth chart. If you’re watching an NFL game Sunday during the league’s late-television window, which begins at 4 p.m. And now this is another step, which is absolutely amazing.” “Way back when I was playing, I never could have imagined we’d be where we are today.
“I keep my eye on all of them, stay up on what they’re doing and it has been great,” Briscoe, 75, said on the phone this week. Briscoe, who revels in the rise of Black passers to the top of today’s NFL, has eagerly anticipated Week 2’s slate of games that feature four matchups between Black starting signal-callers – the most in any week in NFL history, according to ESPN Stats & Information. The first Black quarterback in the old American Football League, which merged with the National Football League in 1970, Briscoe shattered the glass ceiling that existed in both leagues. Sometime on Sunday afternoon in Long Beach, California, trailblazer Marlin Briscoe plans to settle into his sofa, put up his feet and grab a remote control.
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