NFL's Biggest Draft Busts Ever
Thursday April 16, 2009
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
Where are Rick Mirer or Rashaan Salaam?
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?
Reggie Bush!!!
How Bout this list:
1.Ryan Leaf (QB-Wash. St.)
-PK. 2, 1998 SD Chargers
2.Brian Bosworth (ILB-Oklahoma)
-1st round sup pick, Sea Seahawks, 1987
3.Andre Bruce (OLB-AUB)
-PK. 1, 1988 ATL Falcons
4.Tim Couch (QB-Ken)
-PK. 1, 1999 Cle, Browns
5.Lawarence Phillips (RB-NEB)
-PK. 6, 1996 Stl Rams
6.David Carr (QB-Fres. St.)
-PK. 1, Hou Texans, 2002
7.Charles Rogers (WR-Mich St.)
-PK. 2,Det Lions, 2003
8.Joey Harrington (QB-Ore St.)
-PK. 2 Det. Lions, 2002
9.Blair Thomas (RB-Penn St.)
-PK. 2 NYJ, 1990
10.Art Schlister (QB-Ohio St.)
-PK. 4, BLT. Colts 1982
Why has no one mentioned Rex Grossman? You know, that guy Lovie Smith had to defend constantly. The guy who was injured his first 2 seasons, and sucked ass! The Bears made it all the way to the superbowl despite him. They even beat the Cardinals that year late in the game, scoring 4 touchdowns, none of which were on offense! I rank Rex up there with Couch, and Leaf.
You can not consider David Carr a bust… He is one of the unlucky picks to end up on a horrible team.. I think David Carr is a pro bowl quarterback of he could only get a good team..
what about Tim Couch? What a freakin joke
Give it a few years and you can throw Jamarcus Russell up on your list too. And what about David Carr?
Tim Couch was thrown into a horrible situation. Any other team and he would have been a star