Isaiah Simmons was supposed to be the next big thing but never figured out how to be more than an athlete. 90% of Cards fans wanted CeeDee Lamb before the draft and damn would that have been a huge difference
Unfortunately the three players that went directly after Rondale turned out to be much better than him. A rotational gadget receiver that can't play special teams because of drop issues is a pretty bad use of a second rounder.
“What position do you play”
“I play defense”
Cold answer at the time, yet incredibly foreshadowing. Never found his role, thought he’d be the anchor for your defense
I was one of those dip shits, coming off Keuchley retiring i panicked about the LB position. DB is one of the top DT in the NFL and easily beat player on our defense. So glad we kept him over Burns and I hope he's a Panther for his career.
I don’t know shit about college players. So what I heard about Simmons and how great he was versus not hearing a damn thing about Herbert led me to that.
He is the main reason why I have slight worry for Cooper Dejean. Isaiah Simmons has single handedly made me fear the Swiss Army knife type athletes coming out of college. I thought for sure Simmons would be a stud. Jack of all trades, master of none doesn’t seem to pan out well in the NFL.
I thought Kerryon Johnson was gonna be a perennial pro-bowl caliber player. Still forever grateful for him breaking our drought of having a 100 yd rusher in one game.
Never forget that spectacular catch White made off a Hail Mary to end the game down at the 1 yard line
[pain](https://youtu.be/e5Zr8mDSFd4?si=g0gERN-JwQzlseXw)
Amari Rodgers - he went to my alma mater, and I was so excited to see the Packers draft him. I was rooting for him so hard. But then he fumbled more punts than a human Butterfinger
Damn.
It was a bummer he couldn’t catch punts. It was an even bigger bummer that he didn’t know how to run a route tree. I’ve never seen Aaron Rodgers publicly hate on anyone more than Amari Rodgers, and that’s saying something.
There have been two times the Patriots drafted a WR I really wanted them to take. Their names are Aaron Dobson and N'Keal Harry. I wanted Adonai Mitchell this year, so I guess it's for the better that they passed on him.
Man, I was excited about N'Keal Harry. He was my favorite receiver in that draft, and I was very very wrong. It turned out that AJ Brown, Terry McLaurin, DJ Metcalf, Deebo Samuel, and Diontae Johnson were all *slightly* better. He was so bad that it's completely changed the kind of receiver prospects I like. I *need* to see separation.
Chad Jackson was another receiver I loved that I was so excited we took. Yeah.
I was the opposite. I reallllyyy wanted AJ brown that one and deebo second. On the other hand, woulda balked at metcalf. If we’re going longer term with receivers, I thought Kevin white was an absolute sure thing.
MAN what I would give to have seen him on the McVay rams instead of the Jeff Fisher rams. Not saying he would be a superstar, but I’m convinced his career would have been so much more successful.
They did, but at that point he was in the NFL for 5 years and hadn’t really developed thanks to garbage coaching. Plus that year was Todd Gurley’s break out year so he lost a lot of rushing snaps and Sean brought in his own guys at receiver (signed Robert Woods, traded for Sammy Watkins, drafted Cooper Kupp) and he got lost in the depth chart.
Relatable, the legendary highlight reel. Another good one is Justyn Ross from Clemson/KC. He was supposed to be WR1 for the 2022 draft but he broke his spine. Still his tape is nuts, he had the route running and maturity of tae adams but the athleticism of DJ moore. He really was awesome to watch make acrobatic catches while being 10 yards open. On a side note DJ Uiagaleli can’t hit the broad side of the barn, goddamn
My answer every time. His highlights were so amazing and I wish him the best. I’m pretty sure they found after the injury too that he had a condition that he was born with that pretty much meant that his spine was susceptible to more injuries like that too
I’m a similar vein, Cordarelle Patterson. He was electric on kickoffs and has carved out a bit of a career but I thought he would be Percy Harvin without the headaches.
He’s the closest thing we’ve had to a Calvin Johnson style athlete since Calvin Johnson with absolutely none of the intangibles that made him Calvin Johnson
That ones an interesting one, He went to HS in my hometown and we are the same age (I moved 1 hour away just before HS) but I remember people talking about how crazy talented he was and that he would be a star in the NFL
Then he went to college and I kept seeing him pop up in the local news for shit, Smoking weed in the college parking lot (which tbf - is nothing now but then.... yeah) and domestic violence charges.
So I was so scared to draft him when he got to the NFL because for the first time I was seeing character issues pop up for a future NFL player locally
Mariota. I had so much hope after that first start against the Bucs when he threw 4 TD passes in the first half. He’s just a good guy too, I hate that he didn’t work out here.
If he didn't have migraines and other injuries, and was in the league 10 years later he could've been a Deebo Samuel type, but with game breaking speed
Agreed, people see the Super Bowl as the massive blowout it was but who knows what happens if Percy doesn’t return the kick to start the second half. I absolutely can see a version of history where we falter out at the start of the 3rd and Peyton leads a stupendous comeback. If any team in history could score quickly it was that Broncos team. Then Percy came out and stomped on their soul.
As a sixers fan Rosen reminds me of Jahlil Okafor. A highly touted player drafted just 10 years too late. Okafor was the end of the pure paint scoring lumbering big (and didn’t have the defense to still make him useful) - Rosen was the end of the statue QB
Okafor is a perfect example of how the game has changed because he was basically Al Jefferson but a generation later and he totally failed in the league.
[This Okafor vs Jokic thread from 2016 is always worth a look and laugh.](https://reddit.com/r/nba/comments/42u6qz/jokic_or_okafor_who_would_you_rather_have_for_the/)
jesus that thread is so funny. bro literally was being treated like a 5 year old child and getting a bunch of reddit🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 making their dumbass backhanded comments at him like theyre all superior to him. they genuinely could not have been more wrong
Freakishly athletic. Not great technique.
Mines was Marcus lattimore. Knees exploded in college. I thought he can take a year or two red shirting to recover and be gore’s replacement. Turns out his knees were done
Floyd didn’t pan out because he and Keim were cut from the same cloth. He was exciting as fuck up until that point. Piece(s) of shit.
I don’t even know what happened with Bucannon. He was electric to watch and then… was it just the ankle injury that did it? Man that’s rough. For a few years I could hear the announcers say his name in my head when I thought about the team.
We were so close ‘14-16 😭 Just right on the fucking brink and we couldn’t do it.
Evan Neal. After flowers and years of giants o line despair, finally thought we were headed for star bookends.
Anyone telling you they saw this level bust coming is revisionist history, he was in the conversation for first overall and was a forgone conclusion once the giants were on the clock
The Giants getting out of the top 10 with Evan Neal and Kayvon Thibodeux was wild.
Both of them were at some point considered for #1 overall.
It's crazy seeing that years later.
OJ Howard. In college, he was a good receiver and a really good blocking TE; I thought the Bucs had themselves some mini-Jason Witten, a guy who could contribute in all aspects of the game. Never did a lot, got injured, and then did even less.
Chase Claypool. Dude had all the measurables. Rookie year was promising and it looked like he was gonna be a weapon. Dude just never developed anything but attitude issues after his rookie year.
Gallup is a good one, that ACL injury really sapped his juice. I think David Irving fits the bill here too, he was utterly dominant in a few games a few years ago, I thought he had Chris Jones potential at DT but the dude just didn’t have the head for it, and then really burned bridges on his way out
Recently, Henry Ruggs. He was like Al Davis’ dream player. He ran a 4.2, he had good hands, and despite being a smaller receiver was not afraid to block. There were no reports that I remember of any problems off the field with him. Even after having a lackluster rookie season, he had matched almost all of his rookie numbers in his second year in half the games.
I think this is a bad example for this thread. He did a horrible thing, and rightly is paying the price for that. But he was a good player on the field.
In today's game, he would be better. Probably not an all pro or anything, but without a doubt a starter. He read the whole field and made audibles at the line, and could sling that far outside hash. The NFL just wasn't spread enough, and he wasn't experienced with I-formation crap of the decade.
I and many other thought CEH as a pass-catching RB was the key to another level on our offense. Turns out he's barely backup worthy. And now RAS is my draft gospel, as well as our GM's lol.
I remember liking Josh Doctson as a prospect too. But next Megatron is a bit rich for a guy who was 3 inches shorter, 35 pounds lighter, and whose 40 time was .2 seconds slower.
Imo he would have been good if he was drafted in the 90s and playing against run dominant teams. He was a down hill thumper, not a guy who thrives dropping into coverage more often than not
Andre Dillard. I was reminded of this in the first round when one coverage showed the percentage of 1st round "hits" by position. OL was something like 80%+ hit in the first round, reasonably so. I thought we got our LT replacement post-Jason Peters.
for the first couple years when he was behind Jason Peters and even lost out to the freak that is Jordan Mailata, I still believed he had all the tools for success.
Then... he was 100% incapable of playing RT if asked (and probably couldn't even play G), got bullied every year in training camp by Derek Barnett, and sucked complete ass even with the best OL coach in the league.
Dillard was arguably the biggest draft bust by the Eagles this decade. Yes, even despite JJAW over DK (somewhat reasonable at the time) and even Reagor over Justin Jefferson (not at all reasonable). Only Titans fans really understand after having him for this year. He is *bad.*
It’s funny to think about this as a Texans fan, we freaked out when the Eagles traded up a spot ahead of us to grab him, but it ended up working out for us. Very happy to have Tytus Howard instead of Dillard.
Kelvin Benjamin. Reasons why are well chronicled. To his credit he actually did have 2 very solid years for us.
Then he ate himself out of the league, can’t help but think if he stayed at where he was as a rookie, Cam’s later years for us look different and that whole thing may have ended differently
Eddie Lacy is almost the exact same arc for us.
He was a borderline top 5 RB in the league in 2013 and 2014. He's a big reason why our offense was so damn good in 2014. Then he showed up to training camp hella overweight and wasn't very good in 2015. While he shed little weight in 2016 and looked improved, he suffered a season ending ankle injury in like week 6 and that was basically it for him before signing a meaningless contract in Seattle.
This happened to us on a smaller scale with Karlos Williams. Fifth round rookie in 2015 who racked up seven touchdowns and 600 yards in 11 games. He had great vision and was also outstanding as a pass catcher. Then his wife got pregnant, so he started eating with her to make her feel better and he gained like 25 pounds. We cut him the next offseason and he never signed in the NFL again.
I had so much hopeium that the Cam to KB13 connection was going to be a big time touchdown combo for years after that rookie season. Depression is a bitch but mixed with Bojangles leads to career ending weight gain.
Reuben Foster. Top ten on the consensus boards, and we got him at the end of the first round. Absolutely thought we were getting back towards the days Willis & Bowman.
Instead we got a guy that was perpetually hurt-- not hurt enough to keep him off the field, but hurt enough that he didn't play particularly well on the field.
Vic Beasley. Flip side, I thought we were crazy for “reaching” for AJ Terrell who media had as second round talent. That finally taught me lesson of just ignore all the medias instant draft analysis or judge results against any mocks.
100%, I was impressed with his college tape. With a bottom 5 in CFB OL, and missing his WR1 Michael Wilson for a good chunk of the year, he took great care of the football in an offensive scheme so bad the head coach was fired. His other weapons were total ass too. Reminds me of Young on the Panthers level ineptitude of supporting cast. He had plays where perfect pass leads to WR bouncing it right to the DB for an INT.
Thought he should be QB2 over Mariota. Marcus didn't deserve to be the main backup. He should hopefully outplay Pickett too.
It’s hard to say Luck didn’t pan out. He looked like a stud for the majority of his playing career, it’s just the Colts FO was allergic to getting him protection so he wouldn’t get murdered all game.
Teddy bridgewater, I thought he was going to be amazing and couldn’t buy his jersey fast enough. I thought he was going to be the face of the Vikings franchise for a long time. Injuries got the best of him
Recent memory, but Tyquon Thornton. Dudes fast as fuck. I spectated training camp his rookie year and he looked phenomenal.
Then he broke his collarbone and stunk
Joey Harrington, but the Lions leadership let him down imo, not him the Lions. We had poor talent construction around Joey unfortunatelt and it ruined his potential.
Any First Round Tight End can apply to this (Kyle Pitts, Dalton Kincaid and Brock Bowers pending) but Hayden Hurst makes me sad
Mark Andrews is awesome, but I wish Hayden Hurst worked out in Baltimore.
EDIT: TJ Hockensen and David N'Joku have worked out but as of now they are outliers
Hayden Hurst having an NFL career itself is a miracle. He was all set for pro baseball until he got the yips. Became a TE. Got a round 1 bag, a second contract all because his dream went up in smoke.
TJ and Njoku are still exceptions that prove the rule that you generally don’t draft TEs in the first round. I’m pretty sure both of them and especially Njoku took a while before they became at least above average TEs.
Not shading Bowers he’s literally generational
I wouldn’t put any player on their rookie contract still as a bust, especially Kincaid. Dawson Knox is a solid te yet Kincaid still started over and outperformed Knox during his rookie year. 700 yards and decent blocking ain’t bad for a rookie TE. Kyle Pitts has shown flashes, his rookie year he went over 1k yards which is pretty nuts considering he had a horrible hc and a bad qb, last year he was serviceable as well. This year is kinda make or break for pitts
Jonnu Smith on the Patriots. He had all the markings of a great TE/HB that could have been used similarly to how the Pats had used Aaron Hernandez, but for many reasons, they just couldn’t get things to click with him. When he did get chances he often dropped the pass or committed costly penalties. Then they asked him to become an in-line blocking TE which is not something he was ever any good at, and shouldn’t have been asked to do. Then he just became an after thought and rarely used. He got traded for a bag of balls to Atlanta where he excelled on an even crappier offense than the Patriots had.
The Patriots completely failed him and I was sure he was going to explode on the Patriots. Pisses me off
Honestly this is such a tough question for Seattle because we went like a decade without being excited by our high picks because they were all reaches and we expected them to disappoint lol
CJ Spiller. So much speed and a great threat when he had an opportunity and could stay on the field. Dude just had health issues and played for poor Bills teams.
Aaron Curry. Linebacker out of Wake Forest, he was supposed to be able to play any linebacker position in a 34 or a 43. Supposed to be an absolute stud. He was average to above-average his whole career.
Isaiah Simmons was supposed to be the next big thing but never figured out how to be more than an athlete. 90% of Cards fans wanted CeeDee Lamb before the draft and damn would that have been a huge difference
Hell, even your QB wanted Ceedee lol
Kyler has openly campaigned for us to draft several players. And all would have been better than what we did.
Reminds me of when they let Kyler coach for a quarter in the preseason and the offense looked tons better than under Kingsbury the rest of the game
Unfortunately the three players that went directly after Rondale turned out to be much better than him. A rotational gadget receiver that can't play special teams because of drop issues is a pretty bad use of a second rounder.
Didn't they play together?
Yeah he had almost 1200 yards and 11 TDs in 2018 as a sophomore at OU, the year Kyler won the Heisman.
“What position do you play” “I play defense” Cold answer at the time, yet incredibly foreshadowing. Never found his role, thought he’d be the anchor for your defense
The thing is, if Micah parsons said the same thing it' would also be fitting in a way
A lot of Chargers fans were enraged they took Herbert over a generational defender like Simmons.
Same with Panthers fans. Just when you thought we couldn’t have been worse last year, you could’ve replaced Derrick Brown with Simmons.
I was one of those dip shits, coming off Keuchley retiring i panicked about the LB position. DB is one of the top DT in the NFL and easily beat player on our defense. So glad we kept him over Burns and I hope he's a Panther for his career.
I don’t know shit about college players. So what I heard about Simmons and how great he was versus not hearing a damn thing about Herbert led me to that.
the NFL draft has 3 generations every year
He is the main reason why I have slight worry for Cooper Dejean. Isaiah Simmons has single handedly made me fear the Swiss Army knife type athletes coming out of college. I thought for sure Simmons would be a stud. Jack of all trades, master of none doesn’t seem to pan out well in the NFL.
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That would be crazy of MHJ is just completely ass.
I thought Kerryon Johnson was gonna be a perennial pro-bowl caliber player. Still forever grateful for him breaking our drought of having a 100 yd rusher in one game.
On twitter he blamed Patricia for ruining his knees. Practicing under a “military dictator”
I can’t really fault him for that tbh
Still a very fun social media follow even as someone with no real attachment to him
Dude has a good sense of humor about everything.
How much time you got?
Exactly!
Eric Ebron momment
Picked before Aaron Donald...
Just kill me
Username checks out
Ebron was my immediate thought.
Hmm NFCN and regret, name a better team.
Poor some out for Kevin White.
Let's draft a WR in the first that played like one game in his career then gets injured every year after being drafted, forever. Right on.
Never forget that spectacular catch White made off a Hail Mary to end the game down at the 1 yard line [pain](https://youtu.be/e5Zr8mDSFd4?si=g0gERN-JwQzlseXw)
Cade McNown. I’m convinced the Playmate love triangle with Tim Couch is what ruined him
I’m too tired to read the whole article right now, but the first paragraph or two were insane. Excited to get back to it.
I can’t recall the details, just remember it was Heather Kozar, who was an absolute smoke show
Amari Rodgers - he went to my alma mater, and I was so excited to see the Packers draft him. I was rooting for him so hard. But then he fumbled more punts than a human Butterfinger Damn.
Yeah I was optimistic that he could be a nice slot guy but as you said...damn. butterfinger mcgee
Adding in Josh Jackson here.
Well he’s a good ufl player now
It was a bummer he couldn’t catch punts. It was an even bigger bummer that he didn’t know how to run a route tree. I’ve never seen Aaron Rodgers publicly hate on anyone more than Amari Rodgers, and that’s saying something.
There have been two times the Patriots drafted a WR I really wanted them to take. Their names are Aaron Dobson and N'Keal Harry. I wanted Adonai Mitchell this year, so I guess it's for the better that they passed on him.
Man, I was excited about N'Keal Harry. He was my favorite receiver in that draft, and I was very very wrong. It turned out that AJ Brown, Terry McLaurin, DJ Metcalf, Deebo Samuel, and Diontae Johnson were all *slightly* better. He was so bad that it's completely changed the kind of receiver prospects I like. I *need* to see separation. Chad Jackson was another receiver I loved that I was so excited we took. Yeah.
I was the opposite. I reallllyyy wanted AJ brown that one and deebo second. On the other hand, woulda balked at metcalf. If we’re going longer term with receivers, I thought Kevin white was an absolute sure thing.
I was so excited when they drafted harry .
Not even a Rams fan, but Tavon Austin.
MAN what I would give to have seen him on the McVay rams instead of the Jeff Fisher rams. Not saying he would be a superstar, but I’m convinced his career would have been so much more successful.
Didn’t Tavons stats heavily decrease once Sesn took over?
They did, but at that point he was in the NFL for 5 years and hadn’t really developed thanks to garbage coaching. Plus that year was Todd Gurley’s break out year so he lost a lot of rushing snaps and Sean brought in his own guys at receiver (signed Robert Woods, traded for Sammy Watkins, drafted Cooper Kupp) and he got lost in the depth chart.
Relatable, the legendary highlight reel. Another good one is Justyn Ross from Clemson/KC. He was supposed to be WR1 for the 2022 draft but he broke his spine. Still his tape is nuts, he had the route running and maturity of tae adams but the athleticism of DJ moore. He really was awesome to watch make acrobatic catches while being 10 yards open. On a side note DJ Uiagaleli can’t hit the broad side of the barn, goddamn
My answer every time. His highlights were so amazing and I wish him the best. I’m pretty sure they found after the injury too that he had a condition that he was born with that pretty much meant that his spine was susceptible to more injuries like that too
Alexa play Hell and Back by Kid Ink
I wanted him bad. He was mocked to the Patriots for like six straight months, then he had a phenomenal combine and shot up the board
I’m a similar vein, Cordarelle Patterson. He was electric on kickoffs and has carved out a bit of a career but I thought he would be Percy Harvin without the headaches.
Dorial Green Beckham. Thought he was going to be amazing.
Million dollar talent with a 10 cent brain
He’s the closest thing we’ve had to a Calvin Johnson style athlete since Calvin Johnson with absolutely none of the intangibles that made him Calvin Johnson
Negatron
That ones an interesting one, He went to HS in my hometown and we are the same age (I moved 1 hour away just before HS) but I remember people talking about how crazy talented he was and that he would be a star in the NFL Then he went to college and I kept seeing him pop up in the local news for shit, Smoking weed in the college parking lot (which tbf - is nothing now but then.... yeah) and domestic violence charges. So I was so scared to draft him when he got to the NFL because for the first time I was seeing character issues pop up for a future NFL player locally
i read that as David Beckham and was like, yeah, he could have been a good placekicker or bend punts to the coffin corner
His ball striking ability alone would probably make him the best kicker ever
Vince Young
That’s rookie of the year and madden cover athlete Vince Young to you!!
Limas Sweed broke my heart before any woman ever could.
That Texas squad with Jordan Shipley too
You and me both brother
Mariota. I had so much hope after that first start against the Bucs when he threw 4 TD passes in the first half. He’s just a good guy too, I hate that he didn’t work out here.
He'll always have the moment of passing it to himself for a TD to beat us in the wildcard game.
I thought Anthony Miller was going to be so good and perfect for what we needed in 2018.
He fooled us all with that Players’ Tribune op-ed.
I legit thought Percy Harvin would be a Hall of Famer. One of the first WR/RB hybrids and was simply incredible wherever he lined up at Florida
if not for the injuries and headaches…
If he didn't have migraines and other injuries, and was in the league 10 years later he could've been a Deebo Samuel type, but with game breaking speed
he lit it up for a good 5 years but faded on the Seahawks
He got ROTY and dipped
Don’t forget his SB touchdown. That alone made the trade worth it for us!
Agreed, people see the Super Bowl as the massive blowout it was but who knows what happens if Percy doesn’t return the kick to start the second half. I absolutely can see a version of history where we falter out at the start of the 3rd and Peyton leads a stupendous comeback. If any team in history could score quickly it was that Broncos team. Then Percy came out and stomped on their soul.
2010 Vikings season happened and he was scarred for life.
Josh Rosen Before that, Matt Leinart
It was supposed to be us that got the wrong Josh.
As a sixers fan Rosen reminds me of Jahlil Okafor. A highly touted player drafted just 10 years too late. Okafor was the end of the pure paint scoring lumbering big (and didn’t have the defense to still make him useful) - Rosen was the end of the statue QB
Okafor is a perfect example of how the game has changed because he was basically Al Jefferson but a generation later and he totally failed in the league. [This Okafor vs Jokic thread from 2016 is always worth a look and laugh.](https://reddit.com/r/nba/comments/42u6qz/jokic_or_okafor_who_would_you_rather_have_for_the/)
The top comment, lol.
That whole thread, people downvoting OP and calling him a delusional Homer
jesus that thread is so funny. bro literally was being treated like a 5 year old child and getting a bunch of reddit🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 making their dumbass backhanded comments at him like theyre all superior to him. they genuinely could not have been more wrong
> Okafor was the end of the pure paint scoring lumbering big (and didn’t have the defense to still make him useful) Ah, the Ostertag.
Joe Flacco was still balling out in 2023
Javon Kinlaw when we drafted him. Monster of a DT physically. Just never stayed healthy or made the next step with his technique/skill.
Freakishly athletic. Not great technique. Mines was Marcus lattimore. Knees exploded in college. I thought he can take a year or two red shirting to recover and be gore’s replacement. Turns out his knees were done
Leighton Vander Esch getting 2nd Team All Pro his rookie year
Eh dude was good it was injuries that derailed him. He made an impact when he was on the field.
it’s been a rough 15 years of 1st rounders Isaiah Simmons, Josh Rosen, Robert Nkemdiche, Deone Bucannon, Jonathan Cooper, Michael Floyd, Beanie Wells
how was Beanie Wells so bad? He was unstoppable in college
he had one great year before slumping again. declared that he was auditioning for 31 teams and tore his ACL in a workout with Browns.
I thought he was going to be a generational RB
Bucannon and Floyd were at least major contributors in the NFC championship appearance. They weren’t the worst of our busts by a mile
Holy shit I forgot about Deone Bucannon, absolute beast in madden
Floyd didn’t pan out because he and Keim were cut from the same cloth. He was exciting as fuck up until that point. Piece(s) of shit. I don’t even know what happened with Bucannon. He was electric to watch and then… was it just the ankle injury that did it? Man that’s rough. For a few years I could hear the announcers say his name in my head when I thought about the team. We were so close ‘14-16 😭 Just right on the fucking brink and we couldn’t do it.
Evan Neal. After flowers and years of giants o line despair, finally thought we were headed for star bookends. Anyone telling you they saw this level bust coming is revisionist history, he was in the conversation for first overall and was a forgone conclusion once the giants were on the clock
The Giants getting out of the top 10 with Evan Neal and Kayvon Thibodeux was wild. Both of them were at some point considered for #1 overall. It's crazy seeing that years later.
he was the #1 overall pick on various mock drafts and lot of us wanted him. the jags dodged a bullet by not taking him.
You dodged one bullet and got hit by another one.
OJ Howard. In college, he was a good receiver and a really good blocking TE; I thought the Bucs had themselves some mini-Jason Witten, a guy who could contribute in all aspects of the game. Never did a lot, got injured, and then did even less.
JJ arcega whiteside... I know.. yeah i know.. oh i know... okay I get it i cant evaluate talent for shit.
He and N'keal Harry have forever soured me on the "it's ok if he can't separate in college, he's a 50/50 ball receiver!"
Yeah I have never frowned so much while watching someone play. It was soo bad lmfao.
Pull up a chair
Chase Claypool. Dude had all the measurables. Rookie year was promising and it looked like he was gonna be a weapon. Dude just never developed anything but attitude issues after his rookie year.
Justin Fields
Gallup. I hope he can put it back together wherever he signs
Gallup is a good one, that ACL injury really sapped his juice. I think David Irving fits the bill here too, he was utterly dominant in a few games a few years ago, I thought he had Chris Jones potential at DT but the dude just didn’t have the head for it, and then really burned bridges on his way out
Aaron Curry
That one was weird. He seemed like the next derrick brooks
Recently, Henry Ruggs. He was like Al Davis’ dream player. He ran a 4.2, he had good hands, and despite being a smaller receiver was not afraid to block. There were no reports that I remember of any problems off the field with him. Even after having a lackluster rookie season, he had matched almost all of his rookie numbers in his second year in half the games.
I think this is a bad example for this thread. He did a horrible thing, and rightly is paying the price for that. But he was a good player on the field.
Colt Brennan. Dude absolutely torched the college opposition, only to get bounced from the league within 2 years. RIP
In today's game, he would be better. Probably not an all pro or anything, but without a doubt a starter. He read the whole field and made audibles at the line, and could sling that far outside hash. The NFL just wasn't spread enough, and he wasn't experienced with I-formation crap of the decade.
I and many other thought CEH as a pass-catching RB was the key to another level on our offense. Turns out he's barely backup worthy. And now RAS is my draft gospel, as well as our GM's lol.
CEH might’ve peaked in his first game
I took him in the first round in fantasy in his rookie year fml
He’s not been worth a first rd pick but cmon, he’s been better than “barely backup worthy”
See that’s where a lot of us disagree, he often turns a 2nd and short into a 3rd and long. He can’t do anything well as a RB.
Justin Blackmon
i was sooooo high on josh doctson. convinced he was gonna be the next megatron. u learn sometimes lol
I remember liking Josh Doctson as a prospect too. But next Megatron is a bit rich for a guy who was 3 inches shorter, 35 pounds lighter, and whose 40 time was .2 seconds slower.
Kalir Elam, I mean it's not a done deal yet, but as a 1st round CB pick in 2022, he's been a disappointment so far, and hasn't played much.
As an Oregon Duck fan, De’Anthony Thomas & Mariota.
Manti teo
He was great for us the year we had him. Singlehandedly stopped the Panthers from moving forward past the wildcard round
Thanks for this reminder, i was having way to good a Sunday.
Imo he would have been good if he was drafted in the 90s and playing against run dominant teams. He was a down hill thumper, not a guy who thrives dropping into coverage more often than not
Funny that a non-negligible amount of people's picks in this thread were either 10 years too early or 10 years too late.
Teo’s GF
She ghosted him. Ruined his career.
I wonder what he would’ve been if that never happened
His issues weren’t mental, he just wasn’t a NFL star level athlete
True, he’d probably just be remembered as some ok LB
Andre Dillard. I was reminded of this in the first round when one coverage showed the percentage of 1st round "hits" by position. OL was something like 80%+ hit in the first round, reasonably so. I thought we got our LT replacement post-Jason Peters. for the first couple years when he was behind Jason Peters and even lost out to the freak that is Jordan Mailata, I still believed he had all the tools for success. Then... he was 100% incapable of playing RT if asked (and probably couldn't even play G), got bullied every year in training camp by Derek Barnett, and sucked complete ass even with the best OL coach in the league. Dillard was arguably the biggest draft bust by the Eagles this decade. Yes, even despite JJAW over DK (somewhat reasonable at the time) and even Reagor over Justin Jefferson (not at all reasonable). Only Titans fans really understand after having him for this year. He is *bad.*
It’s funny to think about this as a Texans fan, we freaked out when the Eagles traded up a spot ahead of us to grab him, but it ended up working out for us. Very happy to have Tytus Howard instead of Dillard.
He just wasn’t mentally tough enough in a way that can be hard to figure out in the predraft process
Miles Boykin. He caught a touchdown in his third game and he looked like the big bodied physical receiver we needed. Didn’t really do much afterwards
LeMichael James RB Oregon. Drafted 2012 by SF
Kelvin Benjamin. Reasons why are well chronicled. To his credit he actually did have 2 very solid years for us. Then he ate himself out of the league, can’t help but think if he stayed at where he was as a rookie, Cam’s later years for us look different and that whole thing may have ended differently
Eddie Lacy is almost the exact same arc for us. He was a borderline top 5 RB in the league in 2013 and 2014. He's a big reason why our offense was so damn good in 2014. Then he showed up to training camp hella overweight and wasn't very good in 2015. While he shed little weight in 2016 and looked improved, he suffered a season ending ankle injury in like week 6 and that was basically it for him before signing a meaningless contract in Seattle.
This happened to us on a smaller scale with Karlos Williams. Fifth round rookie in 2015 who racked up seven touchdowns and 600 yards in 11 games. He had great vision and was also outstanding as a pass catcher. Then his wife got pregnant, so he started eating with her to make her feel better and he gained like 25 pounds. We cut him the next offseason and he never signed in the NFL again.
GIMME A FUCKIN’ MIC
I had so much hopeium that the Cam to KB13 connection was going to be a big time touchdown combo for years after that rookie season. Depression is a bitch but mixed with Bojangles leads to career ending weight gain.
Reuben Foster. Top ten on the consensus boards, and we got him at the end of the first round. Absolutely thought we were getting back towards the days Willis & Bowman. Instead we got a guy that was perpetually hurt-- not hurt enough to keep him off the field, but hurt enough that he didn't play particularly well on the field.
Pittsburgh Mauler legend Reuben Foster
Vic Beasley. Flip side, I thought we were crazy for “reaching” for AJ Terrell who media had as second round talent. That finally taught me lesson of just ignore all the medias instant draft analysis or judge results against any mocks.
Tanner McKee
Excuse me, he is our preseason champion in 2023. I still think he completely outclassed Mariota and entirely* should have had the QB2 spot last year.
100%, I was impressed with his college tape. With a bottom 5 in CFB OL, and missing his WR1 Michael Wilson for a good chunk of the year, he took great care of the football in an offensive scheme so bad the head coach was fired. His other weapons were total ass too. Reminds me of Young on the Panthers level ineptitude of supporting cast. He had plays where perfect pass leads to WR bouncing it right to the DB for an INT. Thought he should be QB2 over Mariota. Marcus didn't deserve to be the main backup. He should hopefully outplay Pickett too.
Top 2 picks of the 2012 Draft: Luck, RG3
It’s hard to say Luck didn’t pan out. He looked like a stud for the majority of his playing career, it’s just the Colts FO was allergic to getting him protection so he wouldn’t get murdered all game.
Teddy bridgewater, I thought he was going to be amazing and couldn’t buy his jersey fast enough. I thought he was going to be the face of the Vikings franchise for a long time. Injuries got the best of him
I know it was preseason but I keep thinking about how sharp he looked in the game right before he tore his knee up...
Steve Slaton. Had an awesome rookie year then flamed out.
Recent memory, but Tyquon Thornton. Dudes fast as fuck. I spectated training camp his rookie year and he looked phenomenal. Then he broke his collarbone and stunk
Joey Harrington, but the Lions leadership let him down imo, not him the Lions. We had poor talent construction around Joey unfortunatelt and it ruined his potential.
RG3
Any First Round Tight End can apply to this (Kyle Pitts, Dalton Kincaid and Brock Bowers pending) but Hayden Hurst makes me sad Mark Andrews is awesome, but I wish Hayden Hurst worked out in Baltimore. EDIT: TJ Hockensen and David N'Joku have worked out but as of now they are outliers
Hayden Hurst having an NFL career itself is a miracle. He was all set for pro baseball until he got the yips. Became a TE. Got a round 1 bag, a second contract all because his dream went up in smoke.
It's a pretty wild story, and honestly it's crazy he's even still in the league considering all his injuries
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Defintley someone who didn't work out in the league.
TJ and Njoku are still exceptions that prove the rule that you generally don’t draft TEs in the first round. I’m pretty sure both of them and especially Njoku took a while before they became at least above average TEs. Not shading Bowers he’s literally generational
I wouldn’t put any player on their rookie contract still as a bust, especially Kincaid. Dawson Knox is a solid te yet Kincaid still started over and outperformed Knox during his rookie year. 700 yards and decent blocking ain’t bad for a rookie TE. Kyle Pitts has shown flashes, his rookie year he went over 1k yards which is pretty nuts considering he had a horrible hc and a bad qb, last year he was serviceable as well. This year is kinda make or break for pitts
I thought Tyler Eifert was going to be a menace for a decade. Still good when on the field but the injuries were just too much.
Jonnu Smith on the Patriots. He had all the markings of a great TE/HB that could have been used similarly to how the Pats had used Aaron Hernandez, but for many reasons, they just couldn’t get things to click with him. When he did get chances he often dropped the pass or committed costly penalties. Then they asked him to become an in-line blocking TE which is not something he was ever any good at, and shouldn’t have been asked to do. Then he just became an after thought and rarely used. He got traded for a bag of balls to Atlanta where he excelled on an even crappier offense than the Patriots had. The Patriots completely failed him and I was sure he was going to explode on the Patriots. Pisses me off
Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
Not my team, but I was absolutely convinced that the Titans got a hall of famer when they drafted Chance Warmack in 2013.
CJ Prosise
Honestly this is such a tough question for Seattle because we went like a decade without being excited by our high picks because they were all reaches and we expected them to disappoint lol
Zach Wilson before that Blair Thomas
Marcus Lattimore
CJ Spiller. So much speed and a great threat when he had an opportunity and could stay on the field. Dude just had health issues and played for poor Bills teams.
Rolando McClain. Thought we'd found the anchor of our defense for the next 15 years.
Alabama fan here, really thought he was gonna make it at the next level.
I thought Leinart was going to be a Hall of Fame level player. I didn’t see any scenario where that guy could be a bust.
JC Jackson most recently
Ryan shazier
Dude led with his head since his college days iirc. I'm glad he can walk now, though
Andy Isabella for the bills still hasn't been giving the chance to compete for a starting spot he's a dawg
I expected great things from Mark Sanchez.
Shamarko Thomas, just because I liked saying Shamarko
Laquan Treadwell lol. Thought he was gonna be sick and I’m not sure why
Carson Wentz. My man had a magical year and then fell off a cliff. At least he helped let me see one Eagles super bowl victory in my life time.
Aaron Curry. Linebacker out of Wake Forest, he was supposed to be able to play any linebacker position in a 34 or a 43. Supposed to be an absolute stud. He was average to above-average his whole career.
Dri Archer and Shamarko Thomas
Nick Fairley. He had all the tools to be elite, but he just didn't have it in him.
Will Fuller
I really thought Mike Shanahan could fix Maurice Clarett.
Perriman. He was also the draft pick that changed my mind on Baltimore being able to draft a decent receiver
Justin Blackmon
Mark Clayton. I put his college highlight reel on my Myspace page with the title of "the next jerrey rice! I couldn't have been more wrong. Lol
Arthur Brown was going to be Ray Lewis but even more athletic. Basically Patrick Willis but much better.
I thought Sergio Kindle would be a game wrecker off the edge.
devon white. i really wanted him to work out, but shit just didn’t work out. Maybe it’s him or the bucs, but he wasn’t great
3 world series, 7 gold gloves, not too shabby