Former passers know what Hundley faces replacing a player of Rodgers' stature
by Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times
Oct 21, 2017
4 minutes
Brett Hundley faces the daunting task of filling in for injured Green Bay star Aaron Rodgers, among the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history.
Bubby Brister knows how Hundley feels.
So does Jay Fiedler.
And Jeff Garcia.
Brister stepped into the shoes of John Elway in Denver. Fiedler followed Dan Marino in Miami. Garcia was next in line in San Francisco after Joe Montana and Steve Young.
Teams talk a lot about the "next man up" philosophy. But what about when it's next Superman up?
"I didn't want to let John down, I didn't want to be the weak link in the chain," recalled Brister of that 1998 Broncos season when
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