Comments on: Where Are They Now? NFL Draft Busts

By: Drew Charles

Drew Charles — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:32:00 +0000

What about TOM BRADY at pick 199 in the 6th round.What a waste for the Patriots.They have never recovered from that awful pick.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:24:00 +0000

Hey now, the Bengals haven’t had all bad draft picks. Carson Palmer seems to be holding his own.

By: PartiallyDeflected

PartiallyDeflected — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:11:00 +0000

Marinovich had a brief stop with the Los Angeles Avenger of the Arena Football League. Here’s part of an article I wrote about one of his less shining moments when they visited Nashville:

“One of the turning points of the game was when Ben Crosland caught up with Avengers QB Todd Marinovich in the endzone. Crosland grabbed Marinovich by the ankle of his red high top Converse Chuck Taylor shoes, causing him to try to throw the ball away. After a brief conference the officials called intentional grounding, resulting in a safety. Marinovich snapped when the officials made the call, protesting vigorously enough to draw a flag for unsportsmanlike conduct. He then picked up the flag and threw it at an official â€“ a move that drew a second penalty and got him and his ugly shoes ejected from the game, giving the Kats excellent field position once the penalty yardage was added to the ensuing kickoff return.”

By: kate

kate — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:13:00 +0000

Beaker,

Crouch was picked in the THIRD round as a wide receiver (he was a QB during his time at Nebraska). And to my knowledge, he is not a newscaster–that would have garnered big headlines. I think they have him on for radio coverage of sports stuff from time to time, but he’s not a regular (if you do actually know anything about Nebraska football, maybe you are thinking of Matt Davison? He’s famous in Nebraska for preserving the 1997 Championship season, and he is a regular for Husker sport radio.) Crouch is probably not on this list because he was a 3rd round pick (95th overall), so the expectations were not as high as as for say, some of these #6 overall picks. You could argue that winning the Heisman and then not doing well in the NFL is bad, but there is a surprisingly large number of Heisman winners who didn’t do much in the NFL, in part because college QBs (often the winners of the Heisman) usually possess a much different skill set than great NFL QBs.

At any rate, fact check next time. It’s a valuable life skill. :)

By: Steve In San Diego

Steve In San Diego — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:02:00 +0000

I just had a feeling Ryan Leaf would be mentioned (yes, many of us Chargers fans are still bitter about that one).

By: Steve In San Diego

Steve In San Diego — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:54:00 +0000

I just knew Ryan Leaf would be listed here…

(Yes, I’m a Chargers fan – and yes, I’m still a bit bitter about that one!)

By: andy

andy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:42:00 +0000

you could probably do a whole list just about Chiacgo Bears draft busts. It’s a good thing they wont be drafting in the first round fo the next two years and traded for Cutler instead…now they just need a receiver or two to throw to.

Go Bears!

By: Who Dey

Who Dey — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:35:00 +0000

The Bengals have had terrible luck in the draft (Thanks Mr. Brown…You’re doing a WONDERFUL job! PSSST…Hire a GM you dink!).

What would have been an interesting tid-bit to this article would have been the deals that these first-rounders received when entering their *sweet* NFL careers.

Maybe in a future article…

By: I Am Beaker

I Am Beaker — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:12:00 +0000

What about Eric Crouch? Drafted 1st round by St. Louis. He played for Nebraska, and won the Heismann, but never played a game in the NFL. I believe he is now a newscaster in Lincoln, NE.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:41:00 +0000

An overwhelming percentage of these players were drafted by teams that have not been successful as of late, like the Washington “this-year-we’re-going-all-the-way” Redskins, the Cincinatti “We’re-competing-with-Detroit-for-most-number-one-draft-picks” Bengals, and the Oakland “we-once-had-a-great-team-so-we-traded-away-all-of-our-good-players-or-fired-our-good-coaches” Raiders.

*nailed it*