'9 for No. 9: A Champion's Journey' | Drew Brees | Ch 3: Going Pro

Despite winning a Rose Bowl and putting up record numbers while at Purdue, Drew Brees was an undervalued prospect heading into the 2001 NFL Draft. Watch Brees get selected with the first pick of second round, 32nd overall, by the San Diego Chargers and how he fared during his early playing career in the third episode of our nine-part series '9 for No. 9: A Champion's Journey' #Brees9For9

[@ghostfac3182]

Lmao! I forgot about when Brees got feisty in that Vikes game lol. Love Brees

[@brandonliu596]

Wish he coulda played his entire career with the saints, but I guess it all worked out for the best #goat

[@ghostfac3182]

Chargers at one point had Brees,Tomlinson, Gates. Damn.

[@jonm4324]

AND Michael Turner who went on to the Falcons. Not to mention some guy named Philip Rivers

[@ghostfac3182]

@@jonm4324 still no super bowl

[@carltontaylor6500]

And Seau on defense, 4 HOFs....

[@OFFSIDESwithLSUfreek]

Great series. Good news: there's still 6 more episodes to go!

[@ronald_da_lobsta381]

Miami past on him twice lol 😀

[@1LJ84]

God we are idiots

[@firstnamelastname6590]

*passed

[@marsthecat6771]

Drew has the #1 thing a successful QB needs 2 succeed. Unlike Vick, Leinart, Grossman, Davey, Quinn, Jamarcus Russell, Vince Young, etc.
Drew had brains.

[@ghostfac3182]

Wow. Didn't realize how long Brees and Carmichael have been together.

[@The1Randomizer]

Just imagine like he said how the Patriots were interested in 2001...he could have took over for Bledsoe 😳

[@James-dy6ig]

Truck him don’t juke him lol

[@rosssmith5963]

He kinda resembled Eli Manning in a couple of those old pics.

[@Bilal_Aslam_]

How come the 32nd pick was in the 2nd round? Shouldn't it be last pick in 1st round?

[@acidchurch7619]

This was before the Texans were a NFL team. NFL had only 31 teams in 2001

[@wildes2025]

first haha

[@tompipps3383]

TOM PIPPS . FOAM - BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA USA . HI HELLO .

[@firstnamelastname6590]

Brees>Brady

[@isiahlockett519]

Clementine Everett Brady has 5 rings, and is the winningest QB in NFL history.

[@firstnamelastname6590]

Isiah Lockett rings are a team accomplishment, Brees has never had a good defense in his career. Also Brees is better than Brady in every statistical category

[@whodatdmac710]

Whodat