NFL refuses to not be retarded
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Damon Allen! Marcus Allen's younger brother.
I was watching a bowl game, 1982 perhaps? He was the backup QB for a college team that went to a bowl game & lost badly. The starting (White) QB sucked all game long, and Damon went in mid 4th quarter. He threw for (iirc, this was long ago!) 200 yards 2 TD and an interception. In about 8 minutes. It was more than the other guy did the whole game.
The next 2 years he started for them but he never got drafted into the NFL. Baseball yes! But he went to the CFL. He had a legendary career, to say the least, both passing and rushing he was a beast.
He finished with just 320 yards rushing yards less than his brother did! It was all CFL ofc.
Also: Warren Moon, he had to play in the CFL, no NFL team would touch him until he proved himself to be in the top 3 QBs on the planet (one of the others being Dieter Brock in the CFL too!) year after year.
You can't counter statistical trends with anecdotes.
My point is that a great, legend-level Black QB didn't even get drafted in the NFL back in the day. The bias was very real. His brother, a running back, did though.
There's less of it today as teams try to bet the best "bang for the buck" and can't afford to let real talent slip away to other teams just because of racism. But now it goes "the other way" too with Whites getting overlooked at certain positions. :/