1.16 Cleveland Steamers - QB Teddy Bridgewater

In the real world: The Vikings, fresh off the three-headed nightmare of Christian Ponder, Matt Cassel and Josh Freeman, traded up with the Seattle Seahawks to nab Bridgewater with the last pick in Round 1 on the opening night of the NFL Draft. The last of the "Big Three" QB's to be selected in this year's NFL Draft, he was once a candidate to go #1 overall (before cooler heads prevailed and the rightful #1 best player, DE Jadeveon Clowney, was taken at #1). Matt Waldman called him "most polished quarterback I have seen in this class and the most NFL-ready option." He has great intangibles.
In the TUFF world: What. Frigging. Luck. Cleveland traded Riley "White Trash" Cooper to Houston last season for a first-round pick, and it becomes this. No trading up or anything to get that new backup for Matt Ryan. And the Steamers already had Ponder and Cassel (acquired from the Slewage in a trade last year). That's why Derek gets the green check mark, even in spite of the one reservation I have about Bridgewater: that he may wind up more like a fantasy backup (think Chad Pennington or Troy Aikman) than a Tom Brady or a Peyton Manning.

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