Worst No. 1 NFL draft picks?

I still say a bust is a bust, especially for the team which drafted the guy. Makes little difference how you go down. Unless the Bungles got compensation for Carter's injury, it most definitely was a bust for them.

 

To me "bust" means "mistake" . . . as in it doesn't matter who picked the guy --- he cannot play. And it can be argued that someone (scouts, GM) should have known this.

Someone who has his knee turned to spaghetti because of a freak injury might not have had that incident had he been somewhere else. And there is no way to predict who will be unlucky.

 

Not to mention an addendum to an earlier post. What if Ki-Jana Carter had played for another team and that injury never happened? Or what if it happened on a team with an outstanding medical staff? Or with today's medical advances?

Did the Boston Celtics draft a bust back in 1986 when their top pick died of a cocaine overdose? I think a lot of teams would have drafted Len Bias then. Having a player die certainly isn't something the team can control.

 

Awful pick. No doubt about that. But I think this is supposed to be just No. 1 overall.

 

Thank you! Let's remember, folks, that we're only talking about No. 1s overall. That was the jist of the list.

 

My post clearly stated first-round pick, following up on a minor branching off of the list.

I mean, I coulda just posted something political. That seems to be popular on most threads.

 

You're right. My bad. I was going off of what OOP posted.

 

Man, I get blamed for everything around here...

 

But you're so easy to kick around!

Sorry...apology to you, too.

 

He'll play left and he'll be just fine. He played both at U-M and while he had a bit of trouble with speed rushers (i.e. Vernon Gholston, but then again, who didn't?) he was a tremendous run blocker. There's a reason why Mike Hart had as many yards as he did at Michigan, and it ain't because of his lightning quick 40 time (nearly 4.7).

 

Along the same lines, St. Louis Cardinals drafted punter/kicker Steve Little in 1978 with the 15th pick. He was terrible with a 40% FG Percentage. Cut by the Cardinals 1980.