#14 - Steve Grogan, QB Here we go, a good quarterback! Steve Grogan was a fifth round pick out of Kansas State in 1975. He played 13 games as a rookie, starting seven of them. While he stole the job from Jim Plunkett as a rookie, he was still fighting for his job for just about his entire career. Notice I said good quarterback, not great. (And he was good compared to the previous quarterbacks we've seen and some we'll see coming up.) Grogan played from 1975-1990, all with the Patriots. His best season came in 1979 when he led the league with 28 touchdowns and threw for over 3,000 yards for the first and only time in his career. Grogan is actually fourth on the Patriots all-time rushing touchdowns list with 35 behind running backs Jim Nance, Sam Cunningham, and Corey Dillon. He led the franchise in passing yards and passing touchdowns until some guy name Tom Brady came along and demolished both numbers (after Drew Bledsoe passed him in the yards category.) Grogan retired in 1990. He was elected to the Patriots Hall of Fame in 1995 and currently resides in Foxboro, MA. Follow @SamPericolo for the latest on sam-pericolo.weebly.com
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SAMUEL PERICOLOSam is a graduate of Assumption College where he studied History, Marketing, and Political Science and was a Co-Producer on a weekly sports talk television show. Archives
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