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That was the drama at the top of the 1998 NFL draft, with two seemingly elite quarterbacks in play. Two years ago, while Manning was on his way to winning the NFL's Comeback Player of the Year Award with Denver, Leaf was beginning a prison sentence for burglary and drugs. That's the extreme contrast of success and failure at this critical position, of course, but Leaf isn't the only high-profile quarterback whose struggles in the professional game significantly set back the team that drafted him. The worst part for the Raiders, who have yet to find their franchise quarterback, is the list of other players drafted that spring among the top 15 picks: Calvin Johnson, Joe Thomas, Adrian Peterson, Patrick Willis, Marshawn Lynch and Darrelle Revis, to name a half-dozen potential Hall of Famers.
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