A decade before Doug Williams became the first African American quarterback to win a Super Bowl (XXII when he was MVP for Washington) and long before Colin Kaepernick (San Francisco), Russell Wilson (Seattle) and Cam Newton (Carolina) led their teams to title games, Warren Moon was denied the opportunity to play quarterback in the NFL out of college.
Rather than switch positions, Moon opted to go to the Canadian Football League in 1978. After leading the Edmonton Eskimos to five straight Grey Cup wins and becoming the first professional to pass for 5,000 yards in a season (1982), he followed with 5,648 yards and was named the CFL’s Most Outstanding Player in 1983.