Drew Brees is a recent example? He was drafted in the 2001 draft, sixteen years ago. OMG. What about Quincy Carter, Marques Tuiasosopo, Chris Weinke, Sage Rosenfels, and Jesse Palmer taken in the same draft. What about 2002 and Josh McCown, David Garrard, Rohan Davey or 2003 and Dave Ragone, Chris Simms, and Seneca Wallace. In 2004, there was Matt Schaub and Luke McCown. In 2005 ,it was Charlie Frye, Andrew Walter, David Greene, Kyle Orton, and Stefan Lefors. In 2006, it was Kellen Clemens, Tarvaris Jackson, Charlie Whitehurst, Brodie Croyle. In 2007, it was Kevin Kolb, John Beck, Drew Stanton, Trent Edwards, and Isaiah Stanback. In 2008, it was Brian Brohm, Chad Henne, Kevin O'Connell. In 2009, it was Pat White and Sephen McGee. In 2010, it was Jimmy Clausen, Colt McCoy, Mike Kafka. In 2011, it was Andy Dalton, Collin Kaepernick, Ryan Mallet. In 2012, it was Brock Osweiler, Russell Wilson, Nick Foles, and Kirk Cousins. In 2013, it was Geno Smith, Mike Glennon, and Matt Barkley. In 2014, it was Derek Carr, Jimmy Garoppolo, Logan Thomas, Tom Savage. In 2015, it was Garrett Grayson and Sean Mannion. In 2016, it was Christian Hackenberg, Jacoby Brissett, Connor Cook, Dak Prescott, and Cardale Jones.
The ONE fairly common trend for the drafts were gems were found later, it was usually pretty strong at the top (QBs went first, several first rounders). In weaker drafts, it went to garbage fast. But, I don't expect you to recognize that.
Now, you state WITHOUT BEN, they have too much talent to go LESS than 9-7. Keep that in mind as you read on down.
So, they are 8-8 without Ben, but cannot go less than 9-7 without Ben. You posted those two lines in BACK TO BACK posts. I mean, you dropped trousers, took a dump, and then fell back in it. The simple truth is, since Jones has been the primary backup and asked to replace Ben, the Steelers are 3-3 with the three wins being against Cleveland (2016), San Diego (2015), and Kansas City (2015). And, one of those wins belongs to Vick, two to Jones, including the overtime game last year against Cleveland. One of the losses belongs to Vick as well. So, Landry Jones is .500. Ben, on the other hand, is .692 as the starter (and I am including the game Landry started, got hurt, and Ben played almost the entire game on a bad wheel).
I'd say you are correct that the Steelers are, at best, a .500 team without Ben. That means, at best, they are 8-8 and that gives them a top 10 pick. So, you can whine and caterwaul about them being 9-7 or better because they are too talented in an effort to support your "draft a QB" line, but you are too big a jackass to even carry it one post further. Not even one post later you waffled back off it. The Steelers went 10-4 last year with Ben. They were 1-1 with Jones. By stating they would be 9-7 without Ben means you think that Ben is only worth 2 wins a season over Jones, which is damn near laughable on its face.