Biggest busts ever, NFL / MLB / NBA

[bravos1]

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Where do you guys put Brian Bosworth on the bust-level scale? Let's say 1 is Mandarich/Leaf and 10 is some unknown guy turned MVP.


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3. He obviously didn't come anywhere close to living up to expectations but he had a couple decent seasons.

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To his credit, Stone Cold ruled.

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He was the first one I thought of...

How about Rick Ankiel to go along with Van Poppell

[unlucky513]

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Herschel Walker/Ken Griffey Jr/Shawn Kemp

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griffey a bust?! are you RETARDED? the man was on the all century team!!

[Dynasty]

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MLB: Brien Taylor, Todd Van Poppel


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These guys came to mind as top baseball draft picks who flopped. For hitters, Ben Grieve was always a big dissapointment. He was a #2 overall pick. After a couple good seasons, he simply collapsed. He was 29 this year. I would have expected at least a .290-30-110 seasons out of him in his prime years.

I've never heard a satisfactory reason why he flopped so bad after starting his career well.

[bravos1]

NFL - Cade McNown, Ron Dayne, Curtis Enis (same draft year as Ryan Leaf.. yuck that was a bad year.. I guess Manning, Randy Moss, and Charles Woodson help that draft class).

Some more... Rick Mirer, David Klingler, Dan McGwire, and one of my alltime favorites.. Sammie Smith!

Oh this list could go on forever!

[unlucky513]

nobody knows more about busts in the NFL than me... i'm from cincinnati. i went through 15 years of busts.

my pick for biggest bust goes to kijana carter, but i'm a homer [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[Pudge714]

For me Mandarich takes the cake for several reasons.

1. Derrick Thomas, Deion, and Barry were the three next picks
2. He was an offensive lineman how often do o-lineman bust?
3. It wasn't injury related or drug or personality related he just wasn't good enough.

A couple names that spring to mind Tim Couch, when McNabb, Culpepper, Ricky Williams were all taken after him.

Jay Williams, while he got in the motorcycle accident and everything he was supposed to be incredible, and for that matter the whole 2000 NBA Draft.
http://www.nbadraft.net/2000.htm
The only players in that draft presently starting in the NBA are Kenyon Martin, Morris Peterson, Jamaal Maagloire, Quentin Richardson, and Jamal Crawford.

[smb394]

NFL- Rashan Salaam (sp?)

[J.R.]

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3. It wasn't injury related or drug or personality related he just wasn't good enough.


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you really think drugs, or the lack thereof, wasn't an enourmous factor in mandarich's failure?

[mrbaseball]

In "Juiced" Canseco said if he could have put Grieve on his "program" he would have made him a superstar. He claimed he was simply too weak.

[mrbaseball]

Being off the juice is what happened to Mandarich. Bosworth too.