Assertion: round pick | /r/HasProperty | joe montana
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text: Similarly, two-time Super Bowl champion Roger Staubach was a tenth round pick in both the AFL and NFL drafts largely due to having a four-year commitment to serve in the U.S. Navy; Pro Football Hall of Fame Quarterback Brett Favre was a second round pick and fellow Hall of Famers Joe Montana, Aeneas Williams and Dan Fouts were all third round picks, with Montana slipping due to an average showing at the combine; Drew Brees, MVP of Super Bowl XLIV, dropped to the second round after being generally dismissed by scouts due to a mediocre performance at the combine and his height but went on to break or set NFL records for passing yards and touchdown passes and would eventually set the record for all-time passing yardage in 2018; Russell Wilson, Seattle Seahawks quarterback, was a third-round pick due to his height (5'11") but went on to become the second-highest rated NFL passer of all time; Johnny Unitas, who is considered one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the game, was drafted in the ninth round and was actually cut by the team that drafted him; Quarterback Kirk Cousins would be drafted in the fourth round by the Washington Redskins in 2012 as a backup to Robert Griffin III, but became the team's full-time starter in 2015 and played out two more seasons in Washington before signing the first fully guaranteed contract for any player in NFL history with the Minnesota Vikings in 2018.