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Call any NFL scout and ask his opinion of this Saturday's draft and you'll get pretty much the same answer:
It's not very good and not even as deep as the thoughts whirling through the mind of Paris Hilton.
"It doesn't have marquee quarterbacks, it's not deep at a lot of positions and it falls off quickly," one NFC personnel director said.
Why not just a two-round draft, with a free-for-all for the rest of the players? Wouldn't that save time?
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| QB David Klingler: One of the poster boys from a brutal 1992 draft. (US Presswire) |
We have had our share of bad drafts in the past, some predicted, some not. So I took a look at the drafts of the past 20 years to determine five that could be considered bad.
In picking the five, there were several criteria that helped make them bad. They all had high first-round busts, many other first-round misses, star power that doesn't offset those misses and a lack of depth.
Each draft was broken down into a series of categories to show the weakness. Adding some rubbing alcohol to the wounds, I've listed some late-round steals in each year to make the first-round busts sting even more.
You'll notice the 2000 draft is one of the five drafts I've listed. That first round was littered with failures. You might also notice that there was a late-round steal in that draft. A guy by the name of Tom Brady was drafted in the sixth round of that draft.
Think anybody in New England thinks that was a bad draft?
Maybe there's a Tom Brady lurking in the later rounds this year. As bad as the scouts are saying this class is, we really never know.
2002
Top 10 busts: T Mike Williams (4), Bills; DT Ryan Sims (6), Chiefs.
Other first-round disappointments: QB David Carr (1), Texans; QB Joey Harrington (3), Lions; DT Wendell Bryant (12), Cardinals; RB William Green (16), Browns; CB Mike Rumph (27), 49ers; QB Patrick Ramsey (32), Redskins.
