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Ranking worst Week 1 QB starters for defending Super Bowl champs

From 1967 to 1999, 22 of 33 defending Super Bowl champions started a future Hall of Famer at quarterback in Week 1. Since then, only one quarterback for a defending champion is even eligible for the Hall of Fame right now ( Kurt Warner), but 12 of the past 16 defending champions started a QB who will likely end up in Canton ( Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Eli Manning, Peyton Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Ben Roethlisberger?and Warner).