The Draft; who was your worst projected talent (be honest)

[Dan in Florida]

Most people like to say how wrong somebody else was when they projected/thought somebody in College would be good in the NFL.

I'm going to do something different. Tell me the WORST NFL projection you made/thought would be good in the NFL who turned out to be a real stinker.

I will kick this off [gulp], I thought QB Jamarcus Russell would be good and I wanted the Browns to get him.

[Mantle2600]

Brady Quinn

[Riffer X]

Going Browns related, I'd say Touchdown Tommy Vardell. I still think he was a good player, but our offensive line was pretty horrific at the time and he just never seemed to get going.

Per Ohio State, I thought AJ Hawk would be an immediate stud. He's solid, just not dominant like I figured.

Both Mike Huff and Mike Williams (one who went to Detroit and now is in Seattle) come to mind as major disappointments from what I thought they would be. Can't think of others at the moment.

[Flugel]

Originally Posted by Dan in Florida

Most people like to say how wrong somebody else was when they projected/thought somebody in College would be good in the NFL.

I'm going to do something different. Tell me the WORST NFL projection you made/thought would be good in the NFL who turned out to be a real stinker.

I will kick this off [gulp], I thought QB Jamarcus Russell would be good and I wanted the Browns to get him.

William Green - because I thought he'd be a steal at #16 overall. I also whiffed on Couch and Quinn pretty bad.

[Pedros Gaff]

vernon gholston for me

[TheBestPlayersPlay]

Willie Green for me. Loved him coming out of BC I think it was. Thought he was going to be a stud ...and maybe he would have been had he gotten head out of ass.

[DaBrowns41]

I wanted Charlie Frye in the 2nd round right before Green Bay picked, and I wanted Bobby Carpenter in the first after a trade down a few years back.

I also wanted Antrel Rolle or Derrick Johnson with pick #3 if Ronnie Brown didn't fall. Rolle wouldn't have fared any better than Braylon here.

Last year I had Jimmy Clausen as a Top 10 pick.

[Crow]

Thought Clausen would be good, thought Joe Haden would suck and thought it was tragic we missed Eric Berry.

Don't ever take my draft advice, ever.

[DeadWombat]

I always thought that David Veikune was a horrible pick....

... Oh wait, he was. (ZING!)

I always wished that Brady Quinn was gonna be good. But after the week 2 Denver game in '09, I gave up all hope. He looked so horrible in that game.

I had real doubts about TJ Ward, but granted, that's before I saw gameplay footage of him. I read all about his knee injuries and was nearly convinced he was damaged goods, just like Hardesty. Actually, Hardesty might still be damaged goods. I don't really expect anything out of Hardesty, to be honest. I just assume he'll get injured again.




As for non-browns players.... I totally thought that Teddy Gin Jr. was gonna be a stud.

[Crow]

personally i thought david veikune was going to be super bowl mvp in 2011

i was kind of being dumb lol no one likes defense so how could he have possibly won

[jason j]

Worst? But there are so many... I was pretty forceful about thinking the Browns should draft Ricky Williams in '99 not that that would've been all bad. But my reasoning was fueled by the fact that I thought the steal of the draft was going to be QB Shaun King that they could nab in round 2.

Outside of that... I believe I dismissed BJ Raji as "Babatunde Oshinowo minus 40 IQ points," or something like that.

-jj

[JewDago]

manny lawson, veikune, larry english, and gholston are my four failures of the apocalypse. i thought that each would be a solid 3-4 olb, and each of them is terrible. i was also in camp ryan leaf when i was 17, though that was mostly because i was already sick of the peyton manning hype.