10 Steve Walsh
Walsh enjoyed possibly the best career of any QB on this list. He played in the NFL for ten seasons, and finished 8-3 as the Bears starter in 1994.
9 Jonathan Quinn
Quinn will forever be linked with arguably the worst offensive coordinator in Bears history, Terry Shea. Shea saw enough in Quinn as a backup up in Kansas City to urge the Bears to sign the former third round pick as a free agent in 2004. After making three horrendous starts with the Bears that season, finishing 0-3, of course, fans saw enough to know he was one of the worst quarterbacks to ever put on a Bears jersey.
8 Craig Krenzel
How bad was Krenzel’s career as a Bear? The only thing I remember about him was that he majored in molecular biology at Ohio State.
7 Shane Matthews
Matthews arm was so notoriously weak, that the Bears once used receiver Marty Booker to throw the final Hail Mary of a game because Matthews couldn’t reach the end zone.
6 Moses Moreno
Who could ever forget the pride and joy of Colorado State? Oh yeah, everybody.
5 Will Furrer
Furrer shares something with a lot of the quarterbacks on this list: he was a mid-round draft pick who was pressed to start in the NFL before he was ready. After playing in two games with the Bears as a rookie in 1992, and starting one, Furrer finished with a 36% completion rate, zero touchdowns and three interceptions.
4 Peter Tom Willis
Willis may be the best college quarterback on this list, leading Florida State to a top three national ranking in 1989. His Bears career wasn’t as successful though, as he finished with six touchdowns and 15 interceptions in four seasons with the team.
3 Chad Hutchinson
Hutchinson’s Bears career reached his pinnacle in 2004 when he lead the Bears to a late season win over the Vikings. He would never win another game in the NFL.
2 Steve Stenstrom
Something pathetic: Stenstrom’s four touchdown, six interception output as a Bears starter for seven games in 1998 is one of the most impressive tenures of anyone on this list.
1 Henry Burris
If memory serves, the only game Burris started as a Bear was the first game the Tampa Bay Buccaneers ever won in cold weather, 26 years after the franchise made its debut.
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You should have done a where-are- they-now update. Henry Burris has gone on to be a star quarterback in the CFL with Calgary and is still playing at a high level.
Henry Burris passed with his eyes closed!
What about Cade McNown...what a joke!!!
Maybe in the CFL you can consider throwing passes with your eyes shut "playing at a high level". Burris is the only QB I have ever seen throw passes in an NFL game with his eyes shut. In the NFL that is a high level of suck.
I don't know how I forgot to mention Burris' closed eyes passes. I will never forget that.
i think i remember burris tripping over himself on his first snap as starter. nice
This list is depressing, but accurate
Have of these guys, though shitty QBs, aren't really that obscure.
Ugh - this has brought back up literally hundreds of traumatic moments that were deep in the recesses of my brain. The sad thing is that there were so many potential nominees that you didn't even get to include Dave Krieg collecting social security, Rick Mirer being obtained in the Bears' version of the Brock-for-Broglio trade, the misguided Kordell Stewart experiment, and the concussion doll named Chris Chandler.
As the president of the P.T. Willis fan club, I can promise you this man is not obscure to us.
Since he left the NFL for good, we've been petitioning the Chicago Bears to erect a statue memorializing Willis epic stance on the sidelines with a crisp white visor on his head and clipboard in hand.
We were lucky to have such greatness in our presence.
As I recall, wasn't Chad Hutchinson our starter going into the off season and was cut because of pathetic performances in preseason games? Just how pathetic do you have to be to go from "He's our guy" to "See ya, wouldn't want to be ya" based on preseason stats? This is a sad, pathetic commentary on the Bears Q.B.'s over the last 16 years. Who'd make it as our #1 if we listed a top 10 best Q.B.? Jim Miller or.....anyone....anyone...Bueller...Bueller?
While this list only goes back to 1992, any comprehensive list of obscure Bear QBs would include both Kent Nix and Rusty Lisch.
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