Tim Tebow ranks No. 12 on GQ's annual list of least influential people of 2012, joining Dennis Rodman, Aaron Hernandez, Chris Culliver and Alex Rodriguez as athletes ranking in the top 25.
Of the former Florida star and Heisman Trophy winner, the magazine writes "his NFL career blissfully ended this summer... presumably because he didn't murder anyone. And yet he remains ESPN's pet rock: a kind of Moral Superboy that the network can deploy whenever it senses your eyeballs wandering away from the screen. He is more valuable to the network as a nonplayer than as the Canadian Football League benchwarmer that he actually is. The less you see him bumble around on the field, the more Skip Bayless can turn his struggle into a kind of National Virtue Index."
The Patriots cut Tebow, who was seeking to become Tom Brady's backup, during the preseason and he has remained out of the league ever since. Despite suggestions he should consider playing another position or in another league to better prepare himself for being an NFL quarterback, Tebow has resisted.
Joining the out-of-work quarterback on the GQ list was Rodman at No.1, Hernandez at No. 7, Culliver at No. 13 and A-Rod at No. 15.
Of Tebow's would-be New england teammate Hernandez, the magazine wrote "if you're a multimillionaire star athlete with a troubled family background, you're supposed to only pretend that you're an angel-dust-smoking murderer...you're not supposed to actually follow through on the persona, (allegedly) doing drive-by shootings outside shi*** Boston nightclubs and (allegedly) gunning down your friend at an industrial park."
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