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Chapter Seven: Why Didn't it Work for Fuller?

This is another in a season-long series on the Kansas City Chiefs search for a franchise quarterback. It appears weekly on Thursdays throughout the 2015 season.

In an odd way, Steve Fuller’s experience with the Chiefs helped to define him in ways he could never have expected. Backup was how Sports Illustrated evaluated his career when it named him “one of the top 15 backup quarterbacks of all time.”

The label had largely to do with his play for the Chicago Bears during the team’s 1985 championship season. But was Fuller truly just a backup, or did he just seem to flourish in those situations?