Ranking NFL’s 10 biggest draft busts since 1990: Raiders pick is at the top, Trey Lance cracks the top five

The goal of the NFL Draft if pretty simple: Every year, all 32 teams go into the draft hoping that they can find several successful players who will be on the roster for years to come. The ideal situation comes when a team finds a diamond in the rough like the Patriots did with Tom Brady in 2000 and the 49ers did with Brock Purdy in 2022. 

Although that’s the fantasy, the reality is that there’s a much more likely chance that your favorite team will end up drafting a total bust. Over the years, there have been dozens of busts and with the 2024 NFL Draft less than two weeks away, now seems like a good time to rank the 10 biggest busts since 1990. 

Since we want these rankings to be slightly different than most bust rankings, here are the rules: To qualify for the bust list, you have to be at least a top-10 pick. 

For instance, although Johnny Manziel flamed out of the NFL after being selected with the 23rd overall pick in 2014, it’s not as ugly as the time Ryan Leaf flamed out of the NFL, and that’s because Leaf was a higher pick who had much higher expectations. 

Also, the team’s decision-making process going into the pick will factor into these rankings. 

Another rule here is that we’re only going to list a maximum of one bust per team. If we didn’t make that a rule, then this list would basically only be made up of former Bengals, Browns and Lions draft picks, and as fun as that list would be, we don’t want to terrorize just those three fan bases. We want to embarrass as many teams as possible by pointing out their worst draft picks.

Also, one thing you will notice is that Tim Couch and David Carr didn’t make the cut on this list. Being drafted by an expansion team as a quarterback puts you in a nearly impossible situation, so we’re not going to pile on those two guys by adding them to this list when it’s highly unlikely that any quarterback could have found success with the…

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Author : John Breech

Publish date : 2024-04-15 12:10:29

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