Initial 2013 Football Hall of Fame nominees

A quarterback has way more influence on most games than a cornerback.

You can come up with every faux statistic in the world to try to turn football into a computer simulation that says otherwise, and that statement is still true.

 

Yup. I have seen a lot more games in which the quarterback's play impacted the game positively or negatively more than a cornerback's. That doesn't mean I haven't seen games in which a DB got toasted two or three times, and it was the difference.

Not coincidentally, quarterbacks handle the ball on nearly every offensive play. A cornerback might come into play on only a few defensive plays a game.