NYG top ten picks since 1970

P.Rivers , that's why we traded him so quick.

But seriously , I was pretty disappointed with Cedric Jones.

I would say Eric Moore was the bigger bust. The Giants took him to be their LT and after it was all said and done he couldn't even win the RT job and eventually was a part time guard. Jumbo Elliott, our second round pick in the same year, who was considered too slow to be a LT ended up be a stalwart LT for us with a long NFL career. Eric Moore never amounted to more than just another guy.

Knicks fan. It's meant to be we get him.

its mid 70s. I am young and thinking it starts up front. You build from the inside out except QB.

Excited about the chance to pick Hicks. Outland trophy.. Lombardi trophy.. Heisman votes.. sure thing.. yeah this will be great. Watched him play Butz the Skins DT. OMG he was literally run over. Butz would step on this guy after knocking him down on his way into the backfield.

I felt like the Giants were cursed. Could not get a break. I was so high on the pick and then so disappointed. The 70s were tough.

In comment 12211232 charlito said:

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Knicks fan. It's meant to be we get him.

Wtf??

Have several choices for all time busts, we can't afford to even have a fouth round bust this year.

Were all cringe worthy.

and was never the same.

a steroid wonder. Like Tony Mandarich, steroids in college made him look better than he was.

that Hicks was taken that high so I went and looked at the 1974 draft and below is what I found. This is unbelievable.

Pittsburgh Steelers
1 - Lynn Swann
2 - Jack Lambert
4 - John Stallworth
5 - Mike Webster

4 HOFs in one draft. Not sure any team has ever had that success in one draft.

I'm guessing you're not old enough to remember John Hicks. At least Moore was a serviceable guard for a number of years. Hicks was the 3rd overall pick who, as it turns out, didn't like playing football all that much. He was a complete and total bust.

To be fair to the Giants only one pick of the next 10 picks that followed Hicks in RD 1 ever made a pro bowl (John Dutton) so they weren't the only team making bad high picks. But while the Giants were drafting Hicks, Tom Mullen, Rick Dvorak, Carl Summerell, Don Clune and Clyde Powers as their top picks...the Steelers (as RinR noted) were drafting four hall of famers and then picking up Donnie Shell as an undrafted FA.

Cedric Jones was also a bigger bust than Moore. A half-blind DE that had an awful career. 11 pro-bowlers were chosen in that first round AFTER Jones including Ray Lewis, Marvin Harrison and Eddie George.

But what I remember most is that Lawrence Phillips the RB out of Nebraska screwed everything up for the Giants. At the time the draft experts said that there were five blue chip prospects and the Giants were picking at 5, so they were sure to get one of them.

I was convinced they would end up with Simeon Rice but then AZ surprised everybody and chose him. I was crushed, but since Baltimore was probably going to pick Phillips, I figured we'd at least get Ogden. But with all the off-field issues Phillips had Baltimore passed on him and chose Ogden instead. That left the Giants with Jones.

healthy he was a beast at RG. He could move the pile. A definite juicer, he was always hurt. In fact he was such an obvious juicer that he was caught, which is near impossible to do in the NFL.

From wikipedia: "In 1993, Moore was sentenced to a six-month pretrial diversion program for steroid possession along with former New York Giants teammate Mark Duckens. They were described by federal agents as “pawns in international steroid ring.”[1] Moore was also suspended for the first four weeks of the 1993 NFL season.[2]"

by far was the worst.

Hicks was good until he got hurt.

and some draftniks have them picking the LT from Stanford Peats. lmfao. No Stanford OLs and no ND TEs! Hicks was OK, like someone mentioned, he got hurt. The Pats had John Hannah, and the Giants got Hicks, I thought, well we have our Hannah. lol

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For Christ sakes! What a painful draft that was...F you Lawrence Phillips!

And it's not even close.

Rocky....could have had Jack Tatum, Jack Youngblood, Julius Adams, Jack Ham, Dan Dierdorf, etc., but they took Rocky Thompson.....

Is that with only two top 15 picks to his credit, Reese has hit on JPP and OBJ.

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And it's not even close.

He really was, injury related or not..

In comment 12211889 Big Blue '56 said:

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In comment 12211829 Red Dog said: Quote: And it's not even close. He really was, injury related or not..

But to be fair, he was lauded as a great pick at the time, and a welcome change in approach.

Was fine for us.

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And it's not even close.

Baloney.

Even worse that Hicks. IMO

all of 4 years in the NFL

was the 18th pick in the first round. A bust but not a top ten pick.

and its not even up for debate.

Those of you saying King don't know dick about o-line play.