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Is it really fair to say that any of the people prior to 1947 was officially a quarterback? The reference in this page doesn't actually use the term 'QB' for any players until 1947 for Jack Jacobs. Since it was contemporary to be using much different formations than the modern era, I would contend that, unless someone held the position of quarterback for a team, the person who threw for the most yards was not necessarily a quarterback, as any of the 4 tailbacks would potentially throw the ball. It seems more reasonable for this list to make a note of this, and then list the position players starting in 1947. Thoughts? Rohdeaa (talk) 04:27, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Looking further at the Quarterback entry, I see the position used to be called "Blocking Back" of which I see one for every season before 1947. I will be updating the Quarterback entries to reflect the 'Blocking Back' position. If you have comments, please leave them. Rohdeaa (talk) 04:46, 6 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I just went by who threw the most yards. I honestly don't know what position they play. How ever you change it is fine with me. gilliganfanatic (talk)
Why are there two entries in the table for the 1921 season? Every other season that had two or more QBs start a game has them on the same line, so why is 1921 special? – PeeJay20:55, 24 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@WikiOriginal-9 and Yankees10: I plan on working on this list shortly to bring to WP:FL. Before I do this, I have a few things I wanted to run past you both:
The sourcing for "starting QB" before the 1947/1950 range appears to be non-existent. As such, I am inclined to remove all entries before that from any existing tables (more on that later). My plan was to add a prose section titled something like "Pre-1947" that explains briefly the differences in positions from early football to now and then highlight some of the key passers from the pre-1947 era that have been identified as "QBs". Think Herber, Mathys, Dunn, Isbell and Comp. If I take this to WP:FL, I don't think I can get any pre-1947 tabular data past a source review.
Now that I have added in "Years as starting QB" with sourcing to support all the tabular data, are you both ok with my removal of the old tables again? The only difference is knowing the exact number of games started per season. I think that level of granular data is more appropriate for a PFR search and not Wikipedia per WP:NOTSTATS (notwithstanding the fact that the way the table is built, its terribly illegible). The new table provides much more encyclopedic and functional (sortable) summary of the topic by creating a list based off of the QBs as the first column (not based off of the season), summarizing their years with the Packers, the years they started and their overall record. I could also add a Notes section that could provide a little context (like for Seneca Wallace, the Notes section could say "Wallace started one game in 2013 after an injury the previous week to Aaron Rodgers").
