Biggest 1st Round Bust Of The Past Two Decades - NFL Draft

[newnameman]

Anyone Matt Millen has drafted.

 

[jlbenedict]

Tony Mandarich has been added.

Vick removed

 

[imported_Mike]

Leaf, we hear in San Diego will never forget that sack of sh!t, unfortunately.

 

[jlbenedict]

Charles Rogers, WR, Detroit has been added. How many years in a row can someone break a collar bone?

Ricky Williams: One of the most incredible wastes of talent recently.. if only his mind was in the right place

 

[DayLaPaul]

I voted for Leaf just because he was never ever good. Ricky Williams comes in 2nd. Although he's had some good years and the potential for more, he never panned out for NO and has cause MIA a lot of headaches. Not to mention the Saints traded their entire 1999 draft to get him and then fleeced MIA for 2 first rounders.
Grossman and Carroll weren't drafted high enough to be considered alltime busts. No one expects to find a franchise player that late in the round after most of the other teams have had their dibs.

 

[jlbenedict]

Looks like Leaf is the man then not in a good way

 

[meltdown75]

I picked Charles "Smoke em if ya got em" Rogers.

Cursed by Millen and the Lions, but still... I don't even think he is playing football anymore.

 

[slsmnaz]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
Seems that Heath Shuler (Redskins) would deserve to be on that list, although I'm leaning toward Mandarich.

Had the skins given Shuler anything to work with he could have been a good one. He was also not a QB you could start from day 1.

Leaf is my vote. I really enjoyed everyone questioning who should be the first QB taken in that draft. :laugh:

 

[Ausm]

Tony Mandarich....OMG the Packers could had Barry Sanders but they drafted that bum!!

nuff said!


Ausm

 

[krunchykrome]

Ryan Leaf

 

[codeyf]

I went with Ricky W. Although, hindsight, I should've gone with Leaf. Reason being, if Ricky wasn't so retarded in the head, I think he could've done well in the NFL. Leaf on the other hand, never had a chance.

I tip my hat to fellow Washington QB Brock Huard. He recognized early that while he had a great college FB career, he simply didn't have what it took to make it in the NFL. He was able to bow out and still maintain some dignity in himself. Rather than become Leaf 2.0.

 

[skrilla]

I didn't really follow football much when Leaf was around.

I chose Charles Rogers. He was awesome for like 2-3 games. Broke his collar bone. Broke it again. Never was the same.

 

[slpaulson]

Originally posted by: mpitts
Tony Mandarich

Especially considering they passed on Barry and Deon Sanders.

 

[kalster]

mario williams in a few years

 

[GhettoFob]

Jim Druckenmiller

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: kalster
mario williams in a few years

i've not been watching, so i don't know, but if everything is running away from him toward ryans, that's reason enough for him to be there.


ryans is the best 2nd round pick the texans have ever made. if mario can pick it up the texans should have a very good defense for years to come.


it's going to be hard when vince comes back home in two weeks.


i hate bud adams.

 

[Otaking]

Leaf FTW... or is it FTL?

Although his brother may be promising.

 

[PClark99]

Mike Mamula - Eagles

Freddy Mitchell - Eagles

 

[mobilunit]

Andre Ware got to be on the list

 

[NeoV]

I think to make this list you have to be a top 5 pick.

Remember the big discussion when Leaf came out was Leaf or Manning?

Leaf is the CLEAR #1 pick in this list for the biggest bust.

Tim Couch took a team to the playoffs, but was battered over 3 seasons, and I suspect we'll see him in an NFL uniform again, he's still young, and if his elbow/shoulder have healed after both have been operated on, he's at least backup caliber - still, he did 1000 times better as a pro than Leaf did.

Tony Mandarich actually had a decent career after he came back to the game - he was clearly roided up big time - he and Steve Emtman, a DT from Washington, where 2 guys who were animals in college because they were roided up as much as anyone I've ever seen.

Charles Rodgers broke his collarbone twice, and I think he's just plain tentative now.

Ricky Williams may be an idiot, but he was a damn good running back. Coach Ditka made a terrible trade at the time, but he was hardly a bust.

Rex Grossman is a starting NFL QB, and his team is what, 9-2? Way too early to be calling him a bust.

Heath Shuler - bust. Cade McCown - bust, Andre Ware, bust, David Klingler - Bust - Akili Smith - Big time bust - Courtney Brown - injured too often to ever really contribute - bust.

Mario Williams is solid - he's getting bad pub in Houston because they passed on Bush, but he's a cornerstone DE as long as he stay healthy.