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By James Alder, About.com Guide to Football since 2000

NFL's Biggest Draft Busts Ever

Monday April 21, 2008
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!

Comments

September 30, 2007 at 10:26 am
(1) Sam Allen says:

Where are Rick Mirer or Rashaan Salaam?

April 25, 2008 at 1:06 pm
(2) Shiban says:

why isn’t tim couch a bigger bust when he was selected BEFORE and had waaay higher expectations than akili Smith? and speaking of thebrowns’ bad draft history, where’s Courtney Brown,or that Qb we traded Paul Warfield for?

July 12, 2008 at 1:36 am
(3) Tomcat says:

Reggie Bush!!!

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