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James' Football BlogNFL's Biggest Draft Busts Ever As most of you are aware, the NFL Draft is far from an exact science. Every year, prospects who are highly thought of turn out to be lemons while others perform far above their draft status. So it pays to have a little reservation regarding the impact this year's rookies will have when anticipating the success of your favorite team. History doesn't shine favorably on first-year players in the NFL, and regardless of where they were drafted, you never know when one or more of them are going to completely flop.
Obviously hindsight is 20/20, and it's easy to look back now and wonder what the draft experts were thinking while evaluating some of the bigger flops in NFL Draft history. But at the time, most of these guys on our list of Top Ten NFL Draft Busts had nearly unanimous support from scouts and draftniks alike. That's something to think about when hyping this year's class! Wednesday March 5, 2008 | comments (2) Display Latest Headlines | powered by WordPress |
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As most of you are aware, the NFL Draft is far from an exact science. Every year, prospects who are highly thought of turn out to be lemons while others perform far above their draft status. So it pays to have a little reservation regarding the impact this year's rookies will have when anticipating the success of your favorite team. History doesn't shine favorably on first-year players in the NFL, and regardless of where they were drafted, you never know when one or more of them are going to completely flop.

