10 Former NFL Busts You Had No Idea Found a Better Career Path After Football 

An NFL bust who ultimately became the host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire in syndication.

Terry Crews was drafted in the 12th round. That's not considered a bust

@@aaronlewis2501 Yeah, I don't think this person realizes what bust means.

@@aaronlewis2501thank you. 11th round pick outta Western Michigan definitely not a bust. The fact he made any roster for any amount of time is pretty impressive.

Also Michael Thomas 😂

There are an absurd amount of mikes

@@D1-NFLSergeant I am surprised there are less Mike Smith's than the names above.

Fr, and he'd have done even better if not for the shoulder injury.

That would be me.

No, don’t laugh, I thought that was Kurt Russell 🤦🏾‍♂️

I didn't know lol I just knew the ole commercial with him and Bo Jackson lol who ended Boz's career breaking a tackle (benched). Shame a routine tackle made an injury ending Bo's career too. Just glad these guys are doing better, don't seem to have CTE, and haven't gone off the deep end like Aaron Hernandez or to a lighter NBA extent, Delonte West. Speaking of NBA, Kwame Brown got back at Stephen A. Smith with vids as the man hassled him for a decade even after Kwame was done playing. I do feel these sports are watered down sideshows, with Taylor Swift and Caitlin Clark mania being a cultural barrier of entry. I am glad for the quieter stuff like gymnastics, golf, Olympics baseball/mixed curling, and figure/speed skating. Even horse racing is a nice little escape as I don't have to be subjected to storylines and tedious GOAT conversations. Track and field is wholesome too, though I'm tired of the male and female comparisons. Glad Usain Bolt was there, and learning about women's hammer/javelin throw can be nice. Just wish social media didn't poorly edit some of it and golf for how far they went. They're weaker than men but it's stupid not to record their efforts (but then the media circus does that whenever Caitlin Clark has a bad game/season, let alone no washington mystics winless criticism). Still glad for good vids like this and comments and whoever liked my long story as we do have alternatives rather than overpay (same with sports games like super mega baseball and mlb the show on xbox game pass).

Yes he did. I'd hardly call him a bust! He started several years for the Colts until a debilitating knee injury.

Yes, he was pretty good. He gets roasted for the Bo Jackson freight train, but most players were smashed by Bo.

To be fair, he did have a rather long career (started with the Bears before he signed with the Colts), put up some okay numbers, and did make one Pro Bowl.

Ditto

Crews was an 11th round pick, the draft doesn't even go up that high anymore. Bust would mean 1st, maybe 2nd round pick, being an 11th rounder nobody really thought he'd do much in the NFL anyway.

Can’t be a bust if he wasn’t drafted 🤦‍♂️

@@martyenglishiii5099 Good point. I had totally forgotten he was an undrafted free agent. Thanks.

He also wasn’t a bust

I think it was TO who famously said, in tears. "That's my teammate, that's my Quarterback." LMAO

Tim Couch married a former Barker’s Beauty named Heather Kozar.

Pretty sure everyone that was drafted by the Browns wished they were drafted by someone else.

Doesn’t seem like he’s doing great after. He was playing for some fan league. The point of the video is you’ve gotta be a high draft pick, be a bust or have career cut sort due to injury and then start a career in which said player has done rlly well in.

I went back and looked at his stats. I was wrong he was a bust. I take back my previous comment.

You jus said it low round draft pick so he wasn't a bust. Jus found more success elsewhere

Late rounders aren't busts

Makes no sense. He wasn’t even a bust.

Bro what?

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He wasn’t even drafted. Might as well of said Nick Saban considering he was a better coach and wasn’t drafted either,

You can go with either one they both signed contracts in the NFL

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I miss them and real NFL.

Triggered much??

@@dennisblunt6580 You DON'T get to tell ME how to feel or what I feel. I stand by what I said, furthermore, don't come at me like that!!!!!!!!

@user-dj1sg3hm5i I just asked how triggered were you. Do you need a safe space when race is mentioned?

@@dennisblunt6580 It's an observation and I stand by what I said in my original post, and maybe I am triggered by race, but not in a racist way. I'm sick and tired of the first black this, the only white to ever do that, the first Hispanic this, the first Asian that, no European has ever done this, first African to win the blah blah blah, sick of it. Why can't we just recognize the person and their success as just that, success in that moment. I get it, trust me, but when are we just going to say, "he's/she's accomplished and just set a record or whatever". Caitlyn Clark is a phenomenal basketball player, but they were saying, " first woman to ever do this, first woman to ever do that". Again, I get it, but it drives my nuts. Why does race/gender have to be tied to it? I certainly understand why that was necessary in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's etc but 2024 we're STILL doing this?

@user-dj1sg3hm5i because it's important. And on a much smaller note, they are good conversation starters and good for trivia. Acknowledging firsts doesn't hurt anything. Those people paved the way for others in their sports/sectors. Like do you really get mad when people mention Jackie Robinson? How can someone be mad about that?