Texans' C.J. Stroud becomes youngest QB in NFL history to win a playoff game in record-setting performance (2024)
Houston Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud, the second overall pick in the 2023 NFL Draft, has had a rookie season that can be summed up in one word: historic.
The win vaults him past former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, the first overall pick of the 2001 NFL Draft, as the new youngest starting quarterback in league history to come out victorious in a playoff game.
Youngest starting QBs to win playoff game in NFL history
Stroud is also only the fourth rookie passer selected in the first round to win a playoff game joining former Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (2004 season), his postseason opponent on Saturday Joe Flacco back when he was a Baltimore Raven (2008), and former New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez (2009). Since he was selected second overall in the 2023 draft, Stroud became the highest-drafted rookie to ever win a playoff game. That record used to belong to Sanchez, the fifth overall pick in the 2009 NFL Draft.
The Texans also made history as a team thanks to Stroud's big day: Houston is now the first team in 42 years, the first since the New York Giants in the 1981 season, to win a playoff game with 200-1 or longer preseason Super Bowl odds (200-1). They also became only the sixth team in the Super Bowl era, since 1966, to earn a victory in the postseason after winning three or fewer games the previous season, excluding strike seasons joining the 1984 New York Giants, the 2000 New Orleans Saints, the 2006 New Orleans Saints, the 2017 Jacksonville Jaguars and the 2022 Jacksonville Jaguars. The Texans' AFC Divisional Round opponent is undetermined with many potential options pending the results of the next few days of postseason action.
Stroud just keeps getting better. The rookie became the youngest quarterback to win a playoff game after throwing for 274 yards and three touchdowns, and the Houston Texans returned two interceptions by Joe Flacco
Joe Flacco
Flacco was drafted by the Ravens in the first round as the 18th overall pick in the 2008 NFL draft after the team traded out of the eighth overall selection to the 26th, then up again.
Houston Texans rookie quarterback C.J.Stroud is looking to make more history this year. After the Texans defeated the Cleveland Browns, Stroud became the youngest NFL QB to win a playoff game at 22 years and 102 days.
Stroud, at 22 years and 102 days, became the youngest quarterback ever to win a NFL playoff game after Houston beat the Cleveland Browns 45-14 during wild card weekend on Saturday.
Aaron Brooks, New Orleans Saints (2000) Brooks made history for being the first rookie QB to knock off the defending Super Bowl champs in the playoffs when he and the Saints beat the Rams.
Green Bay led by as many as 32 in the fourth quarter before head coach Matt LaFleur took his foot off the gas. The victory made the Packers the youngest team (average age: 25 years, 214 days) to win a playoff game since the 1970 NFL/AFL merger.
“I'm not gonna lie, I was lazy in school, I got what I could so I could play football. But I always had over a 3.0 GPA because that was the standard in my house.
Stroud is also only the fourth rookie passer selected in the first round to win a playoff game joining former Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger (2004 season), his postseason opponent on Saturday Joe Flacco back when he was a Baltimore Raven (2008), and former New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez (2009).
In NFL history, only six rookie quarterbacks have won their first playoff game, with none making it to the Super Bowl. Two other players, Dieter Brock and Pat Haden, technically rookies in the NFL, won their first playoff games after playing in other football leagues.
It's been an amazing journey for me so far.” Tom Brady, who retired at age 45, was the oldest quarterback to ever win a Super Bowl, so that's likely the blueprint Wilson is aiming to follow.
At just 24 years old, Patrick Mahomes achieved a historic milestone by leading the Kansas City Chiefs to victory in Super Bowl LIV. Facing the San Francisco 49ers, Mahomes orchestrated a comeback, scoring 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to secure the Chiefs' first title in fifty years.
Who is the youngest NFL quarterback to win a Super Bowl? Should Purdy lead the 49ers to a victory over Kansas City, he would be the second-youngest starting QB to win the Lombardi Trophy and just the third to do so at age 24. Roethlisberger is the only QB to win a Super Bowl at age 23.
At 5'11", he also became the shortest quarterback to win a Super Bowl, shorter than Len Dawson, Joe Theismann, and Drew Brees (all 6'0"). Wilson earned a bonus of $169,141.73 for the 2013 season through the NFL's Performance-Based Pay program. He was ranked 20th by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2014.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy has an estimated net worth of $300,000 according to Celebrity Net Worth. In 2022, Purdy signed a four-year $3,737,008 contract with the 49ers, with an average annual salary of $934,252.
Intended to serve as a backup in his rookie season, Jackson became the Ravens' starting quarterback after an injury to incumbent Joe Flacco. He went on to clinch a division title with the team and became the youngest NFL quarterback to start a playoff game at age 21.
Has a Second-Year Quarterback Ever Won the Super Bowl? Four of the seven second-year quarterbacks to start a Super Bowl in their second season managed to lift the Lombardi Trophy. Those four are Warner, Brady, Roethlisberger, and Wilson.
No rookie quarterback has ever won a Super Bowl in the 57 years of the game's existence as the starter. In fact, no rookie has ever even reached the Super Bowl as the starter for a team.
In 2007, Amobi Okoye became the youngest player ever drafted into the NFL at 19 years and 10 months old. Okoye was born in Anambra State, Nigeria, and moved to Alabama at the age of 12. After just two weeks in middle school, he advanced to 9th grade and began playing football as a sophom*ore in high school.
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