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Both of them great QBs, but the fact that both of them played their best years for the same team ought to tell you something. Montana was hardly a scrambler by QB standards, using his mobility mainly to buy time in the pocket rather than run downfield.

In Montana's case, he wasn't even "highly touted" at all. I believe he was a third-round draft pick out of Notre Dame in 1979.

In Young's case, he was "highly touted" but never got any traction early in his career -- first in the USFL, then with the lowly Tampa Bay Bucs in the NFL where he was a mediocre QB at best by any statistical measure (to the point where Tampa Bay drafted Vinny Testaverde in 1987 and traded Young away).