Who Were the Players Drafted One Pick Before Superstars? 

As a packers fan I want George Pickens over drake London and I hate Georgia

@@ericpackers1700 smart man

@@718World I’m hoping your trolling with that comment, regardless of that I love the profile name, definitely chuckled

@@neverbeenequal Pickens will be wayy better than drake London and him and Williams the wr from Bama will be tough debate

@@HumpD624 definitely not trolling sir. Yes, reagor hasn't done his part but, the numbers JJ is putting up in Minnesota right wouldn't be the same in Philly. Not nearly

Imagine.

❤great story. This is why you have to draft with and for your head coach. Not just despite him.

A few superbowls would be the result

I will be completely honest and say I would be an Eagles fan instead of the Ravens if that happened; ironic because I live just outside Philly right now…

2 super bowls I mean if the ravens did that with reed and ray then honestly would probably be the same

He really only had one good receiver and that was a young Andre Johnson. Never had a good run game to back him up. It sucks because he and his brother are both talented its just about situations

I always felt bad for him, too. He gets a lot of unwarranted criticism but no QB could win with an oline that terrible.

For what he had he didn’t do that bad really he threw touchdowns

And the fact he didn’t get injured that much dispute getting sacked so much

I feel like Justin fields could be in a similar situation.

I mean I see where you're coming from, but you never know how things work out if they go differently. With Barry and Majik and Sharpe, the Packers are probably good enough that they maybe don't have coaching and front office changes that result in Holmgren and Wolf, and we might not get Favre or a super bowl either.

On the other hand the Mandarich bust led to front office change that would turn the Packers around. So chances are had they drafted Sanders, they likely would not have turn out much better than the Lions.

As a Bears fan, I’m glad your team is bad at drafting most of the time

@@mateocabral1660 as a packer fan, I'm sad that statement isn't false 😅😥

Maybe if they have Thomas they don't go after Reggie white you never know...

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@@semicharmedlife311 War eagle Auburn but I respect the legend of Miami

FML! 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

My eagles found a way to end up on this 3x though too

At least we got Calvin, if only we'd pay him and end the curse

The one that hurts the most is Jamarcus Russell, even at the scouting, he was seen as lazy and unmotivated. Yet Davis fell in love with his cannon arm and picked him anyways. I recall Warren Sapp would did play for the Raiders saying to pick Calvin Johnson in a pre-draft interview.

@@TheHomercles I read a story where they asked Russell where he thought he needed to improve and he got offended by the question. That’s all the Raiders shoulda needed to know.

I’m good

the raiders wouldn't have been able to draft calvin johnson if they drafted reed fitzgerald and rodgers

@@antoineporche-rideaux4841 Fitzgerald is the only one I would put in that category as a "Raider miss" out of the players you pointed out there. Because there were 15-20 teams that also passed on Reed and Rodgers. And Gallery showed potential out of everything seen so far, he came into shape and ready to work, too bad it didnt translate in the NFL. But unlike Gallery, Russell went into the combine and workouts, lazy and unmotivated. And the Raiders drafted him anyways.

All them hits went to his head

He took his shot and KILLED it.

@@wavyykbiiitrey5218 so did the bullet

And the NFL is still trying to cover up how much they knew of CTE in the early 2000s.

Huh? he killed himself. Why be sorry?

Followed if not equalled by Polamalu and Harrison

@@ImThe5thKing Definitely not.

@@ImThe5thKing lmao please never speak football again

@@ThePhoenix1 Tell that to everyone that says they were the leaders of one of the greatest defenses ever

The same place you heard that story, you must have heard how the Bengals and SF both wanted the same guy before Rice, the Bengals took him and SF was "left" with Jerry. Walsh felt Phil Simms was the better QB in the draft than Joe Montana, but knew SF wouldn't have a high enough draft choice to select him and had to settle for the ND backup with a third round selection.

Plus there are situations with the team that can be a factor as well, sometimes it's more of a case that some players may have dodged a bullet. I feel had the Jets drafted Marino, they would have ruined him.

@@iamhungey12345 - But imagine if the Steelers had drafted the local boy from Pitt.

@@paulgaither Big time!

Bill walsh was in Houston playing on the road... since tv was much more regional back in the 80s that’s how he first heard about Jerry... but his first choice was Eddie Brown WR from Miami hurricanes

Man I get pissed everytime I get reminded that my team drafted bust wrs back to back over two of the most dominant wrs right now 🤦‍♂️

Keith McCants (drafted between Kennedy and Seau) also sadly died young. Just last year (age 53) R.I.P.

Bro I can’t even say my anger over that man. I hate being reminded of it. Throughout that whole draft week I was so angry over the picks

Mark Cuban forced Donnie Nelson (the Mavs GM at the time) to not draft Giannis to the Mavs, so I think that makes us even between the Mavs and Bucks

deion or barry?

@@walkdownjr4995 I guess both of them lol

@@IcyInferno11 It truly does. That story makes the Giannis pick even better

True but you have Rodgers and Giannis, so that makes up for it

R.I.P. Gaines Adams.

I hate these kinds of lists because half the time teams don't even need the player in question. If a team doesn't need a WR why would they take one over the RB they needed and did take? They also never bring up the fact that these players often excel because they're in the right situation... I always say, do people really think Aaron Rodgers would have been the player he is had he been picked up by the teams before the Packers where he may have had to start right away? I don't. There's no telling what he could have turned into, but in the right situation he was able to grow tremendously. Maybe with the Patriots he wins multiple SB's. Maybe with the Lions he busts entirely and is out of the league in 5 years. Who knows?

Fr. I'm surprised they didn't say "Can you believe the Colts passed up on Tom Brady 6 times"

Yeah, i agree. I think if you're going to do a list like this you compare position to position and not pick to pick. What WR was taken before Jerry Rice, what LB was taken before Junior Seau. As you say, if you need a offensive linemen why would you take say a WR or LB.

Nah, most of these are unforgivable. Ego picks like most of these could have easily been different.

Yeah except a lot of these guys are offensive lineman. They are typically either good or they aren't. Regardless of the team they are on. I say that as a Browns' fan and watching Joe Thomas be elite his entire career despite the team being terrible. Unless you are saying the browns were the best situation for him lol

Nbs💯

Not necessarily. Dallas drafted Mike Sherrard out of UCLA in 1986 and he was showing real promise when he shattered his leg in training camp in 87. Then they picked Michael Irvin in 88 and THAT'S truly where the real difference would have been as there is no way that Dallas picks a WR in 1988 when they so desperately needed a quality QB as well. The real problem in 86, 87 and 88 with Dallas wasn't a lack of quality receivers it's that Danny White had a near career ending wrist injury half way through the 86 season and could never throw the same way again after. He hung on as the starter for most of 87 but he was never the same and Steve Pelluer was a disaster as starting QB in 88. Even Jerry Rice couldn't have mended Danny's busted wrist or turn Pelluer into a quality starting QB. In retrospect the biggest disaster for Dallas in poor drafting in the mid to late 80s was the failure to secure a decent QB to replace the aging Danny White. To be fair on that score there really weren't a lot of great QBs that came out of college in the late 80s before Aikman was picked. A couple of them like Jim Everett did start for their team for a few season but none of them was on the Level of Aikman and thank the good lord they avoided Testaverde in that batch of ho hum players.

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 Jerry Rice was so good that if need be he’d throw the ball to himself, call plays , play running back and linebacker. So he’d definitely have changed their draft order. Of course he wouldn’t have turned Steve Pueller the Polack in to a quality QB, no one could. Hey wait a minute here, a real female football fan showed up in the RU-vid comments section, uh i have heard y’all exist it’s just been awhile since I’ve seen one. Uh how youuuu doing? 😉

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 Who’s your favorite nfl team?

@@averydaymond1560 when I was still watching the NFL Dallas was my favorite team, Miami was my second favorite when I was young because my grandfather liked them but when I grew up and moved to Atlanta I pulled for the Falcons. I stopped watching all pro Sports about 20 years ago and now I primarily watch college football and college basketball. I'm a huge UNC and UGA fan so this last year was one of the best sports years I've ever experienced in my life (outside of the years that UNC won a title or Dallas won the Super Bowl). I stopped watching pro sports because I was sick of the greed and I was sick of the thuggery and I was sick of Jerry Jones. I stopped watching the NBA first when they locked out the players and Jordan decided to finally retire for the last time. Then at some point in the early 2000s I just stopped caring about the NFL. Ray Lewis was involved in a murder trial, and there was all that domestic abuse stuff coming out and Jerry was getting worse and worse and the players were getting worse and worse and I said F all of that. Last pro sport I still seriously followed was MLB because I used to get field level tickets for free from the company I worked for. But then Bobby Cox was involved in domestic abuse and the players liked retired or got traded and I stopped working for the company that got me free tickets and I stopped caring about that too. I'm not saying Rice wouldn't have changed their draft but there was way too much wrong with Dallas for a WR to fix by himself. As I said Irvin was there in 88 and 89 and they were still wretchedly bad. Herschel Walker was there from 85 to half way through 89 and he was a serious all pro. I think one of those years he led the team in rushing, receiving, return yardage and all purpose yardage and it wasn't enough. Lack of a healthy quality QB KILLED the team from the second half of 86 until 91. And really Aikman and Irvin didn't start paying dividends until Norv Turner came in as offensive coordinator and they had a couple of years together. I recently was looking over a lot of the games from the last part of the Landry era and most of the were really close. I mean yeah there were outliers like the Bears loss in 85 but even in the 3 and 13 year they lost most of their games by less than 10 points. 10 FREAKING POINTS and in some cases by less than a touchdown. And Steve god bless him, that boy must have been color blind like Testaverde given the number of INTs he threw. Danny was never able to throw deep or with accuracy after he broke his wrist in 86. At that point in the season they were 6 and 2. One of those losses was to Atlanta in the final seconds. I remember watching that game and they literally just needed about 10 more seconds on the clock to be able to kick a field goal for the win. Even with Steve under center they could have gotten an 8 and 8 season that year if they hadn't dropped that one. NY won the SB that year and the game Danny was lost for the season they only lost by like a FG. When I look at all the shit that Dallas fans have gone through since Jimmy left I just have to shake my head at how quickly everybody was ready to write Coach Landry off... People can be pissed at Jones all they want but I remember how people were acting before he came in and fired Landry the way he did. Coach Landry went from somebody the team had to replace to somebody that was a living legend being treated disgracefully in the blink of an eye. Fans are so fickle!!!

@@ashleighelizabeth5916 I do concur with all of what you said. I was a huge cowboys fan growing up and always looked at Coach Landry as a man of quiet dignity and respected him a lot. Then along came Jerry Jones getting rid of him. My uncle was friends with Jerry Jones (I’m born and raised in Little Rock & north Little Rock) so I was willing to give Jones a chance because my uncle insisted he was an amazing guy. Obviously things were going well in the early to mid nineties but retrospectively that looks like Jimmy Johnson’s doing. So Jones does away with the 2 greatest cowboys coaches of all time in a little over half a decade. At that point I was done with the cowboys exclusively because of Jones. Then the misconduct of many players wasn’t met with proper discipline so not only did I stop being a fan I rooted against them. So many athletes in the modern era do disappoint and it’s difficult to cheer for them, really impossible. Yes the Ray Lewis incident was so disgusting, I think he’s guilty of the double murder in fact I’m 💯% positive. I joked years ago that you’d just about have to be a fan of golf or tennis fan to root for a noble upstanding person then right after that the Tiger Woods soap opera happened. At times I do think we as fans just weren’t in the know of misconduct during a more golden age of sports and made the experience of being a fan more enjoyable.

Henry Thomas was 34, did you think he was going to play forever? John Randle was all we had on defense going forward.

@Fries they hold the record for most playoff losses.

@Fries they went and lost 4 back to back super bowls at the start of the Super Bowl era. I think it was either the cowboys, broncos, or chiefs who killed em

@@steffanyschwartz7801 i mean they lost 4 superbowls but they werent back to back that was buffalo in the 90s that lost 4 straight

@@UnholyWrath3277 well they are back for vengeance.

Same with Minneapolis miracle. Amazing game against the saints a near comeback, and then falling in the NFC championship game really hard

@@dbabu51 Being blown out is better than a game being winnable and them failing at a pivotal moment. Which is why the Falcons/Saints losses hurt more than the Giants/Eagles losses. For me anyway.

I've been dealing with Long Suffering Minnesota Misery Syndrome since 1969. Four SB losses, the 15-1 team losing on a missed FG, the missed FG in Seattle. All of it. So many good players and good teams, so many bad losses. Every year....every FRICKING year...forever... "there's always next year." But...I can't leave them. I just can't. Because....there's always next year. LOL

@@jaydubya3698 I was born in '82 after the heyday of the Purple People Eaters and the 4 Super Bowls so I haven't had that pain in my life. But I always say that all you need are the right combos of talent, circumstances and luck to all come together at the right time and anything is possible. At least that what helps me sleep at night.

Like the roof of that stadium y'all have or had

Riddick is definitely nice and Davis was good for a short time, but watt is farrrrrrrrr better than both of them

Those scouts were dumb jj was more of a speed rusher then a power rusher anyways both bros are amazing but there both speed rushers not power rushers then can win power moves and there not weak there just more knowen for there speed around the edge

Watt is an outside LB in a 3-4. If he played in a standard 4-3, he'd be a defensive end, and thus that may be the better position group to compare him to.

Yeah, then we got the Taco who was picked ahead of him as a back-up, lol. I don't have to be Nostradamus to say TJ will blow the single season sack record sky high this year, maybe by 10 sacks. He tied it last year in 14 games. And yet the media LOVES.... Miles Garret. Sorry, I don't get this. Why do they adore Miles so much?? Do they think the JJ injury bug is gonna hit TJ? I want to get paid football talking head salary to be so stupidly wrong. What's your take on why?

@@algini12 the talking heads love to pat themselves on the back, Garrett was a #1 overall that they all fawned over so they love things that validate their own opinion. Just like last year when mahomes started his season off they crucified him because none of them wanted him to succeed in the first place. Tj is gonna get 24 sacks this season is my call, new defensive pieces and tuitt and alualu back mean they can't double team him every play.

Everyone knew taco would be a bust in the NFL. He wasn’t good in college except 1 game and in HS he didn’t even start until very late and got dominated when he did play.

They just wanted a Taco

Cowboys have been better at drafting than the Steelers in the post 2010 era

So you just wear jerseys of guys you know nothing about? Smh 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

He was like Sam Adam's basically or Ted Washington if yall remember him as a defensive tackle

@Fries The prevailing wisdom was that Moss would've gone @ 8 by the Cowboys.

Seeing this video hurts a bit because I'm a Bengals fan and this just show dark and genuinely pathetic we were during the Dark Decade and a half that was the 90s, but its a bit brighter that it seems the Bengals are much better, getting Grand Slams on Burrow and Chase and coming off a SB loss...

Yeah, it’s really tough to call David Carr a bust because I don’t think even Patrick Mahomes or Michael Vick would have been able to survive behind that offensive line. Of all the football I’ve ever watched, I think that era of Houston Texans offensive line play was the most brutal I’ve ever seen.

Even as a kid watching his highlights I knew he would be a big star. I can only imagine that the 2003 Panthers would've won the Super Bowl with an absolutely stacked WR roster of Randy Moss, Mushin Muhammad, and Steve Smith and it would've at least made the 1998 Panthers draft something other than the master class of trash that it ended up being.

You can't hear any answers with that Lombardi on ya shoulder

It would have been but what messed that up was that they drafted Michael Lewis in the 2nd round the year before. He made a probowl in Philly. The best alternate history for this would be to draft Carlos Dunlap at DE instead of Lewis, then draft Troy P instead of McDougle - Maybe they beat NE in 2004 with that defense

Eagles could have had a defense with Ray Lewis, Dawkins and Troy. Still irks me to this day.

Doug Flutie is a Miami legend too! (I just watched those highlights so I’m pumped up and sassy.)

@@brendancollins6233 You wrong for that one. 🤣🤣🤣

That video didn't even include Frank Gore, Willis McGahee, Sean Taylor, Reggie Wayne, Santana Moss, Jeremy Shocky, Bryant McKinnie, Clinton Portis, Kellen Winslow, Vince Wilfork and I could keep going but I am going to stop.... I sometimes forget what a power house Miami was at one point.

George Rogers over Lawrence Taylor. That might have been the worst in history.

As a Saints fan, I haven't forgotten.

But atleast George Rogers was a great RB. He made 3 pro bowls and was even first team all pro as a rookie leading the league in rushing yards. Obviously he can’t be compared to LT but it wasn’t a bad pick by any means.

Yeah but Hopkins played with bum qb through his career and looked amazing imagine with rogers

I hate when people say the "worst" player, there are many others that didn't even start cause they were so bad. Now he was the biggest "bust" but he wasn't the worst.

Like people say Eli Apple is the worst corner in the NFL, but according to Madden, there's a player named "Chris Lammons" whos a 59 overall! I'm pretty sure he would do a LOT worse if he had played in the Superbowl against the Rams. Now with that being said, Eli Apple is still bad lol

@@drakedaniels7880 I meant round 1

@@TheblackNigma Okay, my bad bro now ik u was just making an example but i think brady Quinn was the worst player in the 2007 NFL Draft (Round 1), maybe even Justin Harrell or Jarvis Moss

@@drakedaniels7880 agreed

All the draft gurus choose Tua over Herbert cause they could not see it in Oregons offense. Dane Brugler (The Best Draft analyst) even liked his traits but questioned his ability to lead a team till he saw him at the Senior Bowl.

PHINS UP!! 💪

And you had the rookie of the year and NFL's leading rusher in George Rodgers. He didn't have the moter and competitive fire of Taylor though.

@@ckobo84 Yes, we had George Rogers, and landed Rickey Jackson later that draft. But. We. Passed. On. Lawrence. Taylor.

Derrell Revis in the same draft

Don't pat the Lions on the back. They, arguably, whiffed 4 times before landing Megatron. Charles Rodgers, Mike Williams and Roy Williams, the only one worth anything was Roy. They were bound to hit at some point.

um... Micah Parsons plays for the Dallas Cowboys...

@@mojoschmee9320 Two best pass rushers

@@idrip2153 Well okay. I mean, I think Parsons is a generational talent as well, but I don't know if I'd count his as the Top Two pass rushers, though.

I remember Dallas was suppose to draft t.j watt and passed on him.smh

@@polopolo8105 Thanks, now I remember that as well... but at least we got Taco?

A safety?

@@chuco915C Seriously. I can't believe this video omitted the player drafted immediately before Tom Brady. Matt Bowen literally goes down in NFL history as the Sam Bowie of the NFL.

Bro he's top 5... straight up

@Tom Guglielmo now I think about it I could go with that... his only true negative mark was that he couldn't do anything against the Titans in one game for all the chips when it was still a run centered league

@@Uncensoredfunnyshit didn't he have like 2000 yards in a season? 20 something TD? I mean, everyone has schemes and players they don't play against. Ask LaDainian Tomlin how fun brian dawkins was... haha

@@Uncensoredfunnyshit yea 3 or 4 seasons with 2000 yards, and typically had 18-10 tds. He's definitely a GOAT imo.. but everyone has their own preferences I guess.

Good lord, somebody would have a heart attack watching and cheering on Dawkins, Lewis, Peter Boulware and Rod Woodson all on the same D. Yikes!!

Geez can we get a time machine. Seriously another pick we coulda had was chad Johnson. Like imagine him and then T.O comes a bit later. Him and Mcnabb never fight then we acquire djax like bro

Thats would've been unreal

@@Phillygoat1983 even better we have Chad Johnson and t.o. comes later and they fight but instead of t.o. leaving McNabb does and we get Vick

Yes, Ray Lewis And Ed Reed!

Thank you so much for hearting my comment I’m a huge fan of the NFL

Somewhat Joe burrow rose the Bengals who are notorious for not being ideal for draft picks

@@ericpackers1700 Although I think Burrow is a great QB, i don’t think the Bengals have rose as much as people think. AFC North was an injured division and Big Ben wasn’t playing his best. I don’t think they’re as good as people are thinking they are and we will see a big regression this season. But We also didn’t see him take off until they got good weapons around him. Chase is a beast and is a huge success factor in Burrows play.

Don't know about the hall of fame but David Carr was actually a really good quarterback but he got drafted to an expansion team and after two years of getting sacked more than any QB ever he was broken. He had real talent...

Yeah probably a few. Where a player falls is incredibly important to the trajectory of their career

I would think a 10 year reliable starter career would be probable. Hall of fame? Unlikely

Brett Favre was a bust for the Falcons.

...been hearing more and more Commander fans saying this...

I like to pretend like none of this ever happened 😢🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

Cinci fan?

@@michaelrains64295 nah eagles

As a Steelers fan, I thought it was great.

Megatron shoulda been a Raider