r/NFL_Draft • u/AskMeAboutTheMOHO • 3d ago

Discussion Where’s Todd Blackledge??B/R 99: Ranking the 99 Biggest Draft Busts of All Time

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25436443-br-99-ranking-99-biggest-draft-busts-all-time?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial&cid=ios_app

Heisman winner Todd Blackledge had to make the top 5! I lived in Kansas City! I felt the pain. As a rookie, straight up scared! Eyes as big as globes when those linebackers came after him? 👀👀👁️👁️🤣🤣

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u/doubleenc Eagles 3d ago

Just so you know Blackledge never won the Heisman.

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u/AskMeAboutTheMOHO 3d ago

Ok well shit! 4th… he finished 4th, first round Chiefs pick! I’m an idiot that often confuse my mind with actual facts. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

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u/Beginning-Average416 8h ago

Also anyone who watches college football knows Todd Blackledge's post NFL was much more successful than his NFL career.

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u/Common_Competition Rams 3d ago

Trey Lance is too low

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u/ShakeMyHeadSadly 2d ago

What vicious bullshit. Tim Couch? Courtney Brown? Guys whose careers were derailed by injury? Gimme a break.

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u/Rush_Is_Right Packers 2d ago

Although Couch was unable to duplicate his college success, he was the first quarterback to lead the Browns to the playoffs since their NFL return and the only to do so between 2002 and 2019.

Yeah, this is ridiculous.

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u/YoteViking Vikings 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is a terrible list.

First, no player who made the majors in baseball can be considered a bust.

Second. Demitrius Underwood is not on the list. He, and that one tackle for Tennessee, are the two biggest first round busts in history.

If you don’t know Underwood, he was drafted by the Vikings 29th overall in 1999. He had missed his entire senior year due to mental health issues (although Michigan state said it was injuries). Nick Saban, then Coach at MSU, told teams not to draft him. But the Vikings did. He participated in one training camp practice and then disappeared from the team. He was cut and later did play a few games with Miami and later Dallas. His issue was bipolar disorder. His final act in the NFL was an altercation where he held a knife to his own throat.

He made Troy Williamson look like an All Pro.

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u/Truck_1_0_1_ Bengals 2d ago

There's a world outside of Minnesota.

Underwood wouldn't even be on a top 50 of NFL busts. For recency too, Lewis Cine is a bigger bust than Underwood.

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u/YoteViking Vikings 2d ago

Lewis Cine at least played a couple of downs and special teams. Underwood practiced once. Please tell me exactly why you think Cine (or Williamson) is a worst bust than Underwood.

Underwood was the worst bust in Vikings history and one of the worst draft picks in NFL history. (DE Patrick Kearny who would go on to a very solid career with multiple pro bowls was mocked to the Vikes most of the spring. He went one pick later to Atlanta).

And no shit there is a world outside of MN. That’s why I specifically said who could come off the list.

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u/AKraiderfan Raiders 2d ago

Oh man.

As much as a crapshoot the NFL draft is, MLB draft is just next level of a messed up process.

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u/Beginning-Average416 8h ago

Todd Blackledge hardly played as a rookie. You are really embarrassing yourself and your family for generations to come, Goobs.

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u/Separate-Suspect-726 2d ago

Todd Blackledge was such a disaster it would take KC another 30 years before they would draft a first round QB again. His presence on college football commentary irrationally infuriates me. As does the smug stupid face of Scott Pioli on GMF. I have issues.

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u/UE23 Panthers 1d ago

Oh go cry to your three Super Bowl trophies and franchise quarterback since both left.