Ted Ginn: Biggest bust of all time?

Anybody ever hear of hyperbole? I really doubt that the starter of this thread thinks that Ginn is actually the biggest bust of all-time.

 

By the way, here are the No. 1 picks since 1990:

1990: Jeff George
1991: Russell Maryland
1992: Steve Emtman
1993: Drew Bledsoe
1994: Dan Wilkinson
1995: Ki-Jana Carter
1996: Keyshawn Johnson
1997: Orlando Pace
1998: Peyton Manning
1999: Tim Couch
2000: Courtney Brown
2001: Michael Vick
2002: David Carr
2003: Carson Palmer
2004: Eli Manning
2005: Alex Smith
2006: Mario Williams
2007: JaMarcus Russell
2008: Jake Long
2009: Matthew Stafford

There are a few gems in there, but with a track record like this, no wonder teams rarely view getting the overall No. 1 pick as an opportunity.

 

Seriously, who are the successful picks out of that bunch? Wow. I count George, Maryland, Bledsoe, Keyshawn, Pace, Peyton (not a bad 3-year stretch there, though), Palmer, Eli and Williams. Too early to make a call on the last three, although Russell is running out of chances.

 

Took me a second on that one. Carter and Couch are good choices - I know George was super-hyped (and still is by Whitlock) but he did have decent career in the end. I'd put Carr into the mix as well.

 

Say what you will about Vick, and there's plenty to be said, but I'd put him with your list, too. He did have a 1,000-yard rushing season.

 

Maurice Clarett was never that great to begin with to be considered a bust in the first place. I saw the guy plod through humongous holes at Ohio State.

Either way, only a bust like Vernon Gholston can take away my NY Jets joy.

 

I knew Ginn was a bad pick the second they made it. So his sucking doesn't surprise me. Which makes it hard to consider him a bust.

 

You must not have witnessed the Jets' drafts of the 80s. Dave Cadigan. Mike Haight, ugh.

Johnny (Lam) Jones at least had some nice moments, even if he overall wasn't that great. Ken O'Brien, for all the Jets should have taken Marino talk, did end up having a very nice career, when he wasn't getting pummelled due to the Jets' perennially weak offensive line of the mid-to -late 80s.

 

Geez, this far in and no one has mentioned Aundray Bruce yet?

 

True, but this would have been like me starting a thread Sunday, "Jeff Reed is the worst kicker EVER!"

Except at least that would have drawn a decent joke or two about Reed cutting a swath of destruction through every Sheetz bathroom in the tri-state area. Or perhaps a line about drowning his sorrows in the cleavage of some college girl who got into the bar that night with her fake ID. (Ok, somebody else would have had to provide the actual humor, but you get the point.)

 

Ugh....I lived through those drafts. I bet Ken O'Brien still wakes up out of bed in the middle of the night, drenched in a cold sweat thinking he's about to get sacked again.