Opinion: A 6'2" Quarterback Is Not Too Short

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While discussing the NFL draft possibilities for the Cleveland Browns, there were a few comments on Facebook that a 6’2″ quarterback is too short to draft and expect a Super Bowl win. It’s time to cast doubt on such a statement.

Although shorter quarterbacks tend to struggle to win multiple Super Bowl titles, it’s a bit extreme to call a quarterback who’s 6 feet two inches tall a shirt Quarterback. The University of Miami quarterback is 6’2″ and is and is the top quarterback I’m the board.

Meanwhile, Ohio State’s Will Howard seems to be an early Browns fan favorite, is 6’4″. There seems to be some level of bias toward drafting Howard due to his late college career success in leading the Buckeyes to a national championship win over Notre Dame this past year.

Howard showed a lot of improvement reading defenses but many didn’t expect the sort of numbers he recorded.

Still, the problem with this short quarterback talk is that you really can’t call a 6’2″ quarterback short. It just doesn’t seem right. If we want to talk about short Quarterbacks who won Super Bowls, we have to immediately mention Russell Wilson, Drew Brees, and most recently Jalen Hurts.

Hurts just led his team to its first Super Bowl win but it probably won’t be the last time. Brees and Wilson only lead their teams to one Super Bowl win each. However, the point is clear. You can win a Super Bowl with a shorter quarterback but it is usually more difficult.

Wilson is 5’11, Brees is 6’0, and Hurts is 6’0. All three of these quarterbacks won it all. Why is a 6″2 quarterback like Ward and Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart incapable of leading their respective teams to Super Bowl wins after the selections? That seems to be a rather inaccurate expectation given that shorter quarterbacks have won Super Bowl titles.

Winning it all in Cleveland is a long shot and some of the top players, notably Myles Garrett want a trade. However, Garrett might be ok once the Browns’ plan at Quarterback is clear.

Cleveland could select Dart in the second round though Colorado’s Shedeur Sanders is a strong possibility with the second overall pick if the front office thinks that Sanders fits the description of an AFC North quarterback. Sanders is the more likely selection for the Browns as the team looks to fill the void at quarterback immediately due to DeShaun Watson’s major injury from last season which will sideline him for all of the 2025 season as well.

This same logic goes for all other teams. Although it may be easy to State a preference that a quarterback would be at least 6’3″ tall, saying a 6’2″ quarterback is too short to do anything is a point without much research at all.

In Cleveland’s case, if one of the 6’2″ Quarterbacks manages to lead the team to one Super Bowl win, that’s already a victory. However, the critics will likely say that if the Browns remain patient, draft an offensive line early then select Howard in round five, this will result in multiple Super Bowl wins.

If fans in general want to say a 6’2″ quarterback would be bad for their teams, the best argument against this is discussing Patrick Mahomes who is officially listed at 6’2″, 225 pounds. That means, by that same argument, such fans would’ve allowed Mahomes to go to another team had such fans been NFL General Managers for their teams. We know now that would’ve been a catastrophic mistake. This supposedly short Quarterback won three out of five Super Bowls. He may not catch up to Tom Brady’s seven Super Bowl wins but he will likely be close with five or six when his career is over.