ITT: NFL players you thought would be great

ITT: NFL players you thought would be great,

but ended up being mediocre, terrible, or injury ridden.

nnamdi awesomewah

Was a clear 2nd best CB in the league then suddenly decided to suck at football.

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Aaron Rodgers
He just chucks it up to elite receivers, it's bullshit

People literally stopped throwing towards him.
His interceptions went from 10 in a season to almost none. Not because he got worse, but because QBs literally just stopped throwing it in his direction.

fucking this, i mean there was still a huge power gap between him and prime Revis, but he was really fucking good, right before Patrick Peterson and Richard Sherman came into the league

Nnamdi was one of my favorites alomng with based Ty Law

Tyrann Mathieu, the moment I said "this guy's a beast" ended up with two season ending injuries.

Mark Ingram
Brandon Graham
Aaron Murray
Alex Smith
Mark Sanchez
Robert Griffin
That guy drafted #2 after Cam Newton
Eddie Lacy

Moss babby
Chris Carter babby

Ingram has become a pretty solid player though. Not amazing, but not mediocre or terrible.

Was Borland the guy that retired after two years? He seems smart enough to live off his money. Plus he doesn't have to play for the 49ers or rush back onto the field after some shit quarterback throws an INT.

>That guy drafted #2 after Cam Newton
Whaaaa

Anyway, looking back at it, that draft was stacked, especially at the top.

Brandon Graham was a beast this season though.

>That guy drafted #2 after Cam Newton
>Von Miller
da fug

I thought he'd be returning like ten a season and blow the record out, 100 career return touchdowns or some such. Peaked early and got misused. Obviously still has a tiny bit in him, but there's not much left to salvage.

Lacy's really good, McCarthy just doesn't know how to use him

oh god with my draft history I've fallen for many a hype train
>RG3 and Manziel
thought the were gonna find success at least until they had tape on them after a few years. NOPE. I really thought manziels improv skills would transfer well for breaking down defenses
>Trent Richardson
shut up. so did you.
>Bjoern Werner
wasnt coachable I guess
>Greg Robinson
he was big tho
>Matt Kalil
same
>Marquise Lee
eh
>Eric Ebron
garbo
>Ryan Swope
white boi fast tho, wes welker clone
>justin gilbert
developing corners really is 50/50
>Cordarelle Patterson
nigs r dum

I thought he was the next Vick.

Was rooting for him the year the 49ers went to the Super Bowl and "Kaepernicking" was a thing.

It's a shame he was just a meme.

He's really a dumber version of Vick. I personally never bought the hype, knew he was product of a system that could work for a season or two. Defensive Coordinators aren't dumb, as soon as they figured it out, it was all over for him.

It's not the first time a team tries to suprise the league with optional formations, it will also never be the last time.

are you stupid?

the funny thing is vick also had an extremely disappointing nfl career

INT count is not a measure of a CB's quality, and the fact you strawmanned that into my fucking post shows you're fucking stupid.

what are you on about? he was agreeing with you on the 2nd best CB part

Oh. I thought Gabbert was 2nd that year

rolando mclain surprised me

titus young really surprised me

you can always trust a nig to nig though.

but titus young literally has mental problems. they put him in a facility.

N I G
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LaMichael James blew my mind. thought he was gonna wreck shit.

also every Oregon RB and CB and WR and DE (dion jordan, deforest buckner, arik armstead)

only thing Oregon produces is O line and kiko alonso

>guy after cam Newton
>Super Bowl MVP
>in top 5 sacks every year in league
Dawg...

nah he was like 10 i think, dont forget Jake Locker. other than those two top 10 of 2011 draft were fucking ballers

>deforest buckner, arik armstead
to be fair its their first and second seasons respectively give them a chance to really be busts

No, feast mode just can't stop eating his career to death

the first round of the 2011 draft still haunts me as a vikings fan
Ponder and Gabbert really made people gun shy

>lacy is really good

Kek

I knew that guy was gonna be shit-tier after he completed 4 of 20 passes against Nebraska

Nnamdi's drop off once he went to the eagles was mainly scheme based. They put an elite man-press corner and put him in some dumb ass zone scheme. It's retarded how often this happens in the NFL. Real life is not Madden, you can't just plug and play

>doesn't know how to use
What does that even mean? RBs jobs are basically the same in any system.

Alfred Morris
Was clearly the best offensive rookie (with the award going to rgknee out of pity for his career ending injury), but just disappeared afterwards
Granted, he's currently an ewok injury away from being a top 3 RB in the league, but that's not likely

>He thought a Missou player would be good

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>Manziel
>Gilbert
>Richardson

Two head cases and a Bama running back. What could possibly have gone wrong?

>inb4 Browns drafted then

What was Gilbert's deal anyway? Just that he didn't want to play football?

He will always be elite in my heart after that Denver game

I'm a UW fan and I thought the same thing

Vince Young

Its funny, but in a sad way because if he had any intelligence he could've easily had been the best QB of all time.

I thought Cris Carter retired before Daunte came along? but yeah he still had Randy to

elite meme related

*Daunte still had Randy to throw to

Jonathan Cyprien
Ifo Ekpre Olomu
Jaelen Strong
Jordan Matthews
TJ Clemmings
Mike Davis
Rashad Greene
Josh Robinson
Darqueze Dennard

>he actually bought the Manziel meme

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Wtf happened to murray? I had such high hopes. . .

Culpepper was good before he shredded his knee has was never the same again

Let's take it back a couple decades ago

>The Boz
Come on man

Seconding this.

Jarvis Jones

>just take it to the house....

Are these real?

>ryan swope
>tfw he was supposed to take part in the white reciever resurgence
why'd he have to get hurt lads

Im sure someone already posted him but here

relax you fucking mongoloid

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Not dumb, he has shit support. Rodgers would be awful on today's 49ers squad.

Too soon?

Is that the gay?

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Rushing QBs are a meme and I'm glad he got fucked.

Jared Abbrederis
Jeff Janis

He's still on the Chiefs yet I can't recall the last time he's been active, I'm a big KC fan I was excited about the pick but nothing about it since

Fred Taylor
Ryan Whalen
DeAnthony Thomas
Michael Johnson
Brian Calhoun
Rey Maualuga
Chris Rainey
Terrance Cody
Jeff Maehl

Gronkowski

Blunt has been doing pretty well for New Enlgland

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Mike Brown
Anthony Thomas
David Terrell
Cedric Benson
Nathan Vasher
Tommie Harris
Mark Anderson
Johnny Knox
Shea McClellin
Kyle Fuller
Kevin White

>Johnny Knox
Poor guy. He didn't deserve that

RG 3. It still boggles my mind.

I forgot how awesome this guy was. What happened to him?

This.

I thought RG3 was the real deal.

Another player who stopped trying and could have been great.

Mark Sanchez is pretty good. Just got injured and had a lot of pressure on him because Rex is a retard who took in Tebow and 1000 other qbs.

>Jay Cutler

Feels bad, Seriously anyone who watches just get furious. He so fucking talented.

Honorable: Chad Pennington injuries derailed his career

+1 for cutler

also braylon edwards. i wanted the niners to take him #1 then trade back up into the first to get rodgers.

You two are nuts. He might as well have been glass.

vince young

People like to claim he was a product of Moss but his best year happened when Randy Moss was injured and Nate Burleson stepped up.

Even mediocre tebow was better than sanchez

Yeah I gotta go with cutler.
Was a sad state of affairs for the guy.

In 2013 i thought Nick Foles was the next Brady

Who here expected great things from him?

This guy is the next ed reed if he could stay healthy for 2 seconds

Terrence Cody

Reggie Bush

Josh Gordon

He had one GOAT season and that was it.

I just remember the dude having no touch on any passes he threw. He had one speed and it was a rocket.

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>jay cutler
>talent


user please.....

>Mark Sanchez is pretty good
Stop.

Lol fucking eagles always complain when they're the ones who played out of position

you cuntler apologists are the worst. he has """talent""" but fucking awful decision making and leadership.

if someone defends cutler you can tell theyre from reddit plain and simple

Laugh at me all you want, but I really thought Blaine Gabbert was going to be elite. And I'm not even a deluded Jags fan or a fan of the university he played for. I just read all the pre-draft hype about his mind and how he can understand/comprehend things so easily and I was like shit this dude is gonna read defenses like a book
I still don't understand why he turned out to be total trash

How has nobody brought up Matt Leinart? Or Josh Freeman?

He just retired dude.

This. But bear fans are stupid. I had one tell me that if Cutler got an mvp hed be a 1st ballot hof.