and a few other former players back in 2015, he was a total prick and overall a really shitty person. A lot of people don't realize he was also in jail. So between that and his shitty play thats my vote.
Primarily because he was a supplemental pick, which means we were the highest bid in a blind auction and at least half the league didn't feel he was worth a 1st round pick. That says something, especially at QB.
As a rookie he averaged 5 yards a carry and scored 6 TD's. Got hurt early his second year. That's not a guy who couldn't play in the NFL. Injuries ruin a lot of careers.
Primarily because he was a supplemental pick, which means we were the highest bid in a blind auction and at least half the league didn't feel he was worth a 1st round pick. That says something, especially at QB.
I read not long ago that Belichick who was HC of Cleveland at the time was going to draft him if the Giants didn't
As a rookie he averaged 5 yards a carry and scored 6 TD's. Got hurt early his second year. That's not a guy who couldn't play in the NFL. Injuries ruin a lot of careers.
Its not his fault he had to retire after only two years but still, we spent a 1st rd on the guy and he was gone-o not long after
The whole article is worth the read, but here are the two most important paragraphs:
"Looney’s problems immediately carried over to his professional career. He refused to follow the Giants’ dress code. He left folks flabbergasted by ignoring the press. Sometimes he just plain didn’t show up for practice.
"After only 28 days, and before even so much as a preseason game, the Giants traded Looney to the Baltimore Colts for safety Andy Nelson and wide receiver R.C. Owens. Looney would become the problem of Colts head coach Don Shula."
I'd say alienating coaches and upper management enough to be traded less than a month after being traded 12th overall qualifies as the worst pick in team history. Looney - ( New Window )
...because he only lasted 2 seasons before having to retire. At least the other guys stuck around awhile
David Wilson was at least an All-Pro kick returner and made great plays in limited time. I don't even think he belongs on the list, and besides, he was 1 pick away from being a 2nd rounder...picked at 32 overall.
Cedric Jones was the 5th overall pick and a complete and total bust. He gets my vote...but before you get to Wilson, I would say Eric Moore, Thomas Lewis, Butch Woolfolk, Derek Brown, William Joseph, Tyrone Wheatley, and George Adams. All terrible, all worse players than Wilson and all taken higher. Cedric Jones is the worst.
Willie Anderson was a 3x All-Pro OT taken a few picks later at #10, Marvin Harrison picked a little later in the first round, and Ray Lewis also taken in the first round. If only Jonathan Ogden could've fallen one more spot. And there were many other good players in that draft, like Terry Glenn, Regan Upshaw, Eddie George, Duane Clemons, and Jerome Woods all taken in the first round. One of the best players in that draft was missed twice by just about every team, as Philadelphia drafted Brian Dawkins at the end of round 2.
Jones was a miserable pick to be taken at #5 overall, I don't even think it's close.
As a rookie he averaged 5 yards a carry and scored 6 TD's. Got hurt early his second year. That's not a guy who couldn't play in the NFL. Injuries ruin a lot of careers.
Totally agree, the guy was an obj game breaker without the diva aspect. If the doctors missed something that's on them not Reese or Wilson.
Tucker Frederickson was the #1 pick. After his rookie year, he was a shell of the player the Giants drafted. From an ROI standpoint, the worst was probably a top-five pick like him, John Hicks or Cedric Jones - although Frederickson and Hicks were reasonable picks at the time, and Jones was the result of picking fifth in a draft with four blue-chip players and one sociopathic running back.
The worst use of a first round pick was probably the Craig Morton trade. That was the #2 selection in 1975, which the Cowboys turned into Randy White. The fourth pick that year was Walter Payton. On the other hand, if the Giants had kept the pick, they might very well have taken Ken Huff or Mack Mitchell.
I agree. Really wanted Simeon Rice but AZ knabed him at pick 3, Baltimore takes Ogden. Young then spends the 5th overall on a one eyed DE. I kept screaming please just take Ray Lewis. Nope. The one sweet thing is they took Amani Toomer in round 2 who I was praying for.
to be Derek Brown. The guy really had no NFL career to speak of.
I've always been on the side of Dave Brown that thinks he takes too much shit. He was a starting calibre QB for several years, and was hampered by being part of the Jersey Broncos and Reeves.
Guy gave it his all and it wasn't like he had a supporting cast that he let down.
The Giants selected both at the end of the first round, after winning a Super Bowl. Both showed promise, then suffered catastrophic injuries. I don't think either belongs on this list. The ideal picks would have been Brett Favre in 1991 (rather than Bunch, plus Dave Brown in the supplemental draft a year later) and Cordy Glenn in 2012. Hindsight is 20-20.
These are all very good candidates and it is unfortunately a very tough call. And no doubt the Craig Morton trade could not have been more costly in terms of first round opportunities lost...
But if I have to select the worst three actual draft picks, it has to be based on both who they took AND who they missed! So a severe reach pick while leaving "HOF best player available talent" on the board. So Derek Brown and Ron Dayne, both of whom might have been top three, did not make the cut because there were no HOFers in the 1992 NFL draft and no HOFers after Dayne was selected in the 2000 NFL draft...
#3. 1995 Tyrone Wheatley (passed on three HOFers - Derrick Brooks, Curtis Martin, Terrell Davis)
#2. 1971 Rocky Thompson (passed on three HOFers - Jack Youngblood, Dan Dierdorf and Jack Ham)
#1. 1996 Cedric Jones (passed on four HOFers - (Marvin Harrison, Ray Lewis, Brian Dawkins, Terrell Owens)
I remember meeting and talking to Paul Zimmerman at a wine tasting around April of ‘91 after winning SB XXV. They actually had the ESPN draft on. I remember him saying after we took Bunch, “the rich just got richer, he’s a steal.”
to be Derek Brown. The guy really had no NFL career to speak of.
Coughlin actually found a use for Derek Brown for a couple of years, as the blocking half of his TE tandem, opposite Pete Mitchell.
The top half of the first round in 1992 was brutal. Brown was a terrible pick, but so were most of the other guys taken in the top 15.
Steve Emtman
Quentin Coryatt
Sean Gilbert
Desmond Howard
Terrell Buckley
David Klingler
Troy Vincent
Bob Whitfield
Tommy Vardell
Ray Roberts
Leon Searcy
Marco Coleman
Eugene Chung
Derek Brown
Johnny Mitchell
to be Derek Brown. The guy really had no NFL career to speak of.
Coughlin actually found a use for Derek Brown for a couple of years, as the blocking half of his TE tandem, opposite Pete Mitchell.
The top half of the first round in 1992 was brutal. Brown was a terrible pick, but so were most of the other guys taken in the top 15.
Steve Emtman
Quentin Coryatt
Sean Gilbert
Desmond Howard
Terrell Buckley
David Klingler
Troy Vincent
Bob Whitfield
Tommy Vardell
Ray Roberts
Leon Searcy
Marco Coleman
Eugene Chung
Derek Brown
Johnny Mitchell
Vincent was an all-Pro caliber DB, Searcy was very good in tandem with Boselli, Mitchell was pretty solid for a few years, Whitfield was also solid for years, but much of this list sucked
to be Derek Brown. The guy really had no NFL career to speak of.
I've always been on the side of Dave Brown that thinks he takes too much shit. He was a starting calibre QB for several years, and was hampered by being part of the Jersey Broncos and Reeves.
Guy gave it his all and it wasn't like he had a supporting cast that he let down.
Agree on Dave Brown. I was always a fan of his. Tough guy who always put in 100%. Definitely could have been a better QB if he'd been in a better situation.
And that hit on Deion Sanders alone is worth the draft selection :) One of the most meaningless yet satisfying plays I'll probably see.
"Malaise days" of the 1990s the zero-offense Giants of my childhood. He appeared in 34 games in four years. In that time, he had 73 catches, 5 TDs and 3 fumbles.
Take out 1996, and Lewis appeared in only 21 games, catching 21 balls for 1TD over three years. At least Flowers and Apple are on the field, giving us something to complain about. With those two, Mondays are at least interesting. This guy was invisible milquetoast.
David Wilson, Jarrod Bunch, and George Adams were all good looking prospects who were coming along just fine until they were injured. For all three guys, their physical conditions forced them to quit playing football. I really wish that people would quit lumping these guys in with all of the truly horrible draft choices.
Butch Woolfolk was a BUST. Eric Moore was a BUST. Ron Dayne was a BUST. William Joseph was a BUST. Eric Dorsey, Brian Williams, Luke Petitgout, Prince Amukamara, Kenny Phillips, Mathias Kiwanuka, & Justin Pugh were not busts, but they never played up to their draft slot.
Williams, at 6'-5" 310 could not beat out 6'-3" 265 Bart Oates for 4 or 5 years and then Oates went on to play for the 49ers. Williams started for like one year before being forced to retire because of an eye injury. I wonder if that's considered a bust by some folks on BBI.
We got stuck with Cedric Jones and I thought we were going to draft Ogden. I felt the same way after the two trades that stole Floyd & Conklin because choosing Eli Apple @ 10 was like a kick to the nuts.
I truly believe that if we don't LOVE one of the QBs, our best move on the 26th would be trading down one slot at a time as many times as we can and then drafting to fortify the lines on either side of the ball.
I nominate John Hicks,he finished 2nd in Heisman voting. We picked him third overall. Started as a LT later moved to guard. He wasn't very good at either position.
His only saving grace was he was traded to the Steelers for Jim Clack who was a decent center for a few years. Hicks never played for the Steelers.
I nominate John Hicks,he finished 2nd in Heisman voting. We picked him third overall. Started as a LT later moved to guard. He wasn't very good at either position.
His only saving grace was he was traded to the Steelers for Jim Clack who was a decent center for a few years. Hicks never played for the Steelers.
You mean the John Hicks who was NFC Offensive Rookie of the Year? RIght, he couldn't play.
He had knee issues, and health from diabetes.
"Hicks, who was selected in the first-round (No. 3 overall) in the 1974 NFL Draft by the Giants, was named the UPI NFC Rookie of Year that same year. He would go on to spend four seasons with the Giants, appearing in 52 games with 50 starts before being traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers for offensive lineman Jim Clack and wide receiver Ernie Pough.
Right. He had an excellent rookie year, and was one of the reasons therer was such high hopes for the D in 2017. A reasonable person would say that the jury is out and he has to prove himself this year.
should factor into "bust' designation. Tucker Frederickson would have been an all-time Giant were it not for the knee injuries. Bunch, George Adams, Wilson were promising players. Troy Archer was killed in a vehicular accident. Doesn't mean he was a bad draft pick. Now Rocky Thompson, he was a bust. The apt-named Joe Don Looney, he was a bust. Giants perhaps were trying to emulate Cowboys success with Bob Hayes when they picked Thompson but geez. One wonders if anyone from the organization talked to Looney or his college coaches before he was drafted. Hicks, Gordon King, Larry Jacobson, Jim Files were other players, drafted out of desperation, with middling careers who were not worthy of a #1 pick But the number 1 picks that still piss me off the most are those we traded for Tarkenton and Craig Morton.
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Tucker Frederickson was the #1 pick. After his rookie year, he was a shell of the player the Giants drafted. From an ROI standpoint, the worst was probably a top-five pick like him, John Hicks or Cedric Jones - although Frederickson and Hicks were reasonable picks at the time, and Jones was the result of picking fifth in a draft with four blue-chip players and one sociopathic running back.
The worst use of a first round pick was probably the Craig Morton trade. That was the #2 selection in 1975, which the Cowboys turned into Randy White. The fourth pick that year was Walter Payton. On the other hand, if the Giants had kept the pick, they might very well have taken Ken Huff or Mack Mitchell.
Tucker Frederickson tore up knee, that's why he was shell of himself. this was all before surgery could fix knees up. i guess chicago should blast gale sayers for only having a few good years. geez!
I'm always going to think Brown could've been a decent QB if he had a better coaching staff and offense to work with
I always said the same thing. Don't get me wrong. I don't think he was ever going to be a top flight QB. But, I do feel he could have been decent if not for Reeves (same goes for Wheatley). George Young didn't help either, as those teams had abysmal OLs and receiving options. They just ran Hampton into the ground, essentially ruining his career also.
Derek Brown took more money from the GIANTS for doing less over a longer period of time than any of these other guys.
Joe Don Looney was a terrible pick but he was gone almost immediately.
David Wilson gets a pass for an undiscovered medical problem.
Guys like Dave Brown, George Adams, our famous one-eyed DE, and some of the others were disappointments, but not even close to the Derek Brown disaster.
And anybody who thinks Jerrod Bunch was a bad pick simply does not know what they are talking about. He would have been a great back, but his career was derailed by an injury.
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Tucker Frederickson was the #1 pick. After his rookie year, he was a shell of the player the Giants drafted. From an ROI standpoint, the worst was probably a top-five pick like him, John Hicks or Cedric Jones - although Frederickson and Hicks were reasonable picks at the time, and Jones was the result of picking fifth in a draft with four blue-chip players and one sociopathic running back.
The worst use of a first round pick was probably the Craig Morton trade. That was the #2 selection in 1975, which the Cowboys turned into Randy White. The fourth pick that year was Walter Payton. On the other hand, if the Giants had kept the pick, they might very well have taken Ken Huff or Mack Mitchell.
Tucker Frederickson tore up knee, that's why he was shell of himself. this was all before surgery could fix knees up. i guess chicago should blast gale sayers for only having a few good years. geez!
One guy who isn't the worst, but not getting any mention is Richburg. He had 1 good year, and 3 terrible years. In my opinion, he has been a worse pick than Flowers.
One guy who isn't the worst, but not getting any mention is Richburg. He had 1 good year, and 3 terrible years. In my opinion, he has been a worse pick than Flowers.
One guy who isn't the worst, but not getting any mention is Richburg. He had 1 good year, and 3 terrible years. In my opinion, he has been a worse pick than Flowers.
Richburg was a 2nd Rounder. I think he would have been better served having more of a redshirt year his first season and work solely on getting the strength necessary to be an interior OL. Due to injuries and poor performance by others he was forced into the line-up at OG. In college he was pushed around by DT's and NFL guys are bigger and stronger.
I remember watching Derek Brown from the stands... Â
Sitting on the bench and laughing in the middle of an ass kicking while he was 3rd on the depth chart... Talk about a guy who couldn’t have cared any less...
Tucker Frederickson was the #1 pick. After his rookie year, he was a shell of the player the Giants drafted. From an ROI standpoint, the worst was probably a top-five pick like him, John Hicks or Cedric Jones - although Frederickson and Hicks were reasonable picks at the time, and Jones was the result of picking fifth in a draft with four blue-chip players and one sociopathic running back.
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Tucker Frederickson tore up knee, that's why he was shell of himself. this was all before surgery could fix knees up. i guess chicago should blast gale sayers for only having a few good years. geez!
That was the point of the reference to injuries in the headline on my post: If a player suffered an early, career-altering injury like Frederickson's, do you judge his selection on production, or on what he offered as the time the Giants picked him?
Genuinely awful picks like Thomas Lewis and Derek Brown belong in a different category than promising players who got hurt, like Frederickson, Wilson and Bunch.
One guy who isn't the worst, but not getting any mention is Richburg. He had 1 good year, and 3 terrible years. In my opinion, he has been a worse pick than Flowers.
Richburg was a 2nd Rounder. I think he would have been better served having more of a redshirt year his first season and work solely on getting the strength necessary to be an interior OL. Due to injuries and poor performance by others he was forced into the line-up at OG. In college he was pushed around by DT's and NFL guys are bigger and stronger.
Thank you. Yes, no I remember he was taken in round 2. Another guy I wanted to mention, Kanavis McGhee, I remembered was a Round 2 selection before I listed him here.
should factor into "bust' designation. Tucker Frederickson would have been an all-time Giant were it not for the knee injuries. Bunch, George Adams, Wilson were promising players. Troy Archer was killed in a vehicular accident. Doesn't mean he was a bad draft pick. Now Rocky Thompson, he was a bust. The apt-named Joe Don Looney, he was a bust. Giants perhaps were trying to emulate Cowboys success with Bob Hayes when they picked Thompson but geez. One wonders if anyone from the organization talked to Looney or his college coaches before he was drafted. Hicks, Gordon King, Larry Jacobson, Jim Files were other players, drafted out of desperation, with middling careers who were not worthy of a #1 pick But the number 1 picks that still piss me off the most are those we traded for Tarkenton and Craig Morton.
exactly! short-lived careers because of injuries doesn't equate to being a bust.
I remember being at a Giants preseason game in 1992 verus the Jets with my Dad and he saw Brown run out of the tunnel. His remark was "who is # so-and-so...wow, he looks like a player!"
Some of these guys like the one who went 12th overall and lasted just a month were before we had modern scouting and they were drafting out of Street and Smith's. Naturally the busts like those would be worse than anybody we'd pick in the modern era.
wow people forget even thought David Wilson was not starting RB
he made the Pro Bowl as Kick Returner which has not happen to Giants in many many many years
Lewis has the infamy of catching clean and running with what should've been a sure walk-in TD pass early in the '94 season and then abruptly tripping over nothing and hurting himself in the process
He was drafted to be a paul warfield and they found out he could not catch the ball. returned kicks a couple of years but Joh Hicks might take the cake. Back then the giants scouting was a joke and Ohio State listed him as a huge offensive guard. When he arrived in New York and was introduced to Mara they thought it was a joke being played on him when a 6 foot 230 pound out of shape lineman walked into his office..
You younger fellas might not remember this one but in 1972 they took an All American DT from Nebraska named Larry Jacobsen. Guy was 6'6" and 250. He apparently didn't work out much because the CBs were out lifting him in the weight room. Never did a thing for them and basically got laughed off the team. Solid scouting there.
I remember being like "Who the F is Thomas Lewis" looking through allof my draft papers and he was a horrible 1st round pick. Cedric Jones was another but at least he played and did a little but man where those terrible picks.
Then Jarrod Bunch, who takes a FB in the 1st round???
I wanted Alexander and we went with Dayne.
Those are my top head scratchers that also bombed.
I remember being like "Who the F is Thomas Lewis" looking through allof my draft papers and he was a horrible 1st round pick. Cedric Jones was another but at least he played and did a little but man where those terrible picks.
Then Jarrod Bunch, who takes a FB in the 1st round???
I wanted Alexander and we went with Dayne.
Those are my top head scratchers that also bombed.
Ron Dayne was great in college but didn't have the openings to run through in the pro game
David Wilson, Jarrod Bunch, and George Adams were all good looking prospects who were coming along just fine until they were injured. For all three guys, their physical conditions forced them to quit playing football. I really wish that people would quit lumping these guys in with all of the truly horrible draft choices.
Butch Woolfolk was a BUST. Eric Moore was a BUST. Ron Dayne was a BUST. William Joseph was a BUST. Eric Dorsey, Brian Williams, Luke Petitgout, Prince Amukamara, Kenny Phillips, Mathias Kiwanuka, & Justin Pugh were not busts, but they never played up to their draft slot.
Williams, at 6'-5" 310 could not beat out 6'-3" 265 Bart Oates for 4 or 5 years and then Oates went on to play for the 49ers. Williams started for like one year before being forced to retire because of an eye injury. I wonder if that's considered a bust by some folks on BBI.
The one year Williams played he was awesome. Pretty much everybody agreed he was a huge upgrade over Oates at that time. The eye injury happened in training camp, it really set the Giants back. It took years to find another competent center.
I nominate John Hicks,he finished 2nd in Heisman voting. We picked him third overall. Started as a LT later moved to guard. He wasn't very good at either position.
His only saving grace was he was traded to the Steelers for Jim Clack who was a decent center for a few years. Hicks never played for the Steelers.
You mean the John Hicks who was NFC Offensive Rookie of the Year? RIght, he couldn't play.
He had knee issues, and health from diabetes.
"Hicks, who was selected in the first-round (No. 3 overall) in the 1974 NFL Draft by the Giants, was named the UPI NFC Rookie of Year that same year. He would go on to spend four seasons with the Giants, appearing in 52 games with 50 starts before being traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers for offensive lineman Jim Clack and wide receiver Ernie Pough.
A falling out with then-head coach John McVay and a brawl with teammate Jack Gregory are ultimately what led to his trade." Former Giants first-round pick John Hicks dead at 65 - ( New Window )
I remember Hicks... Yeah he ad 1 good year, but after that he was brutal. He was so bad by comparison Flowers looks like Pace or Ogden...
I'm always going to think Brown could've been a decent QB if he had a better coaching staff and offense to work with
Wheatley didn't help his cause by being lazy and alienating teammates with his weird personality. His nickname in the locker room was "Enigma"
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...because he only lasted 2 seasons before having to retire. At least the other guys stuck around awhile
. How long did Jones last? I can’t remember
He played for at least 4 seasons. I'm pretty sure he was on the 2000 Superbowl team
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Tyrone Wheatley
I'm always going to think Brown could've been a decent QB if he had a better coaching staff and offense to work with
I tend to agree with that. I always loved the fact that he was a hometown kid, who grew up a Giants fan. Just didn't work out.
John Hicks and Gordon King...
David Wilson definitely does not belong on the list. He looked good until he hurt his neck.
I read not long ago that Belichick who was HC of Cleveland at the time was going to draft him if the Giants didn't
Its not his fault he had to retire after only two years but still, we spent a 1st rd on the guy and he was gone-o not long after
Receiving yards: 401
Touchdowns: 1
The guy was the 14th pick in the draft.
Those numbers are like what Witten did to us for 2 games per year...
"Looney’s problems immediately carried over to his professional career. He refused to follow the Giants’ dress code. He left folks flabbergasted by ignoring the press. Sometimes he just plain didn’t show up for practice.
"After only 28 days, and before even so much as a preseason game, the Giants traded Looney to the Baltimore Colts for safety Andy Nelson and wide receiver R.C. Owens. Looney would become the problem of Colts head coach Don Shula."
I'd say alienating coaches and upper management enough to be traded less than a month after being traded 12th overall qualifies as the worst pick in team history.
Looney - ( New Window )
David Wilson was at least an All-Pro kick returner and made great plays in limited time. I don't even think he belongs on the list, and besides, he was 1 pick away from being a 2nd rounder...picked at 32 overall.
Cedric Jones was the 5th overall pick and a complete and total bust. He gets my vote...but before you get to Wilson, I would say Eric Moore, Thomas Lewis, Butch Woolfolk, Derek Brown, William Joseph, Tyrone Wheatley, and George Adams. All terrible, all worse players than Wilson and all taken higher. Cedric Jones is the worst.
Willie Anderson was a 3x All-Pro OT taken a few picks later at #10, Marvin Harrison picked a little later in the first round, and Ray Lewis also taken in the first round. If only Jonathan Ogden could've fallen one more spot. And there were many other good players in that draft, like Terry Glenn, Regan Upshaw, Eddie George, Duane Clemons, and Jerome Woods all taken in the first round. One of the best players in that draft was missed twice by just about every team, as Philadelphia drafted Brian Dawkins at the end of round 2.
Jones was a miserable pick to be taken at #5 overall, I don't even think it's close.
Get serious. A life threating injury makes him a bad pick? Jesus, smfh
He made 3 plays. The rest of the time he was mediocre at best.
Derek Brown gets my vote. Though I wasn’t around as a fan for some of the train wrecks being discussed from earlier years.
Totally agree, the guy was an obj game breaker without the diva aspect. If the doctors missed something that's on them not Reese or Wilson.
And I was critical of the pick when it happened.
They should have gone Shaun Alexander, like I was screaming for weeks;)! 100tds!
Receiving yards: 401
Touchdowns: 1
The guy was the 14th pick in the draft.
Those numbers are like what Witten did to us for 2 games per year...
Give Brown a break, that's an unfair comparison, it's tough to play against NFL caliber LBs.
The worst use of a first round pick was probably the Craig Morton trade. That was the #2 selection in 1975, which the Cowboys turned into Randy White. The fourth pick that year was Walter Payton. On the other hand, if the Giants had kept the pick, they might very well have taken Ken Huff or Mack Mitchell.
No he doesn’t.
I agree. Really wanted Simeon Rice but AZ knabed him at pick 3, Baltimore takes Ogden. Young then spends the 5th overall on a one eyed DE. I kept screaming please just take Ray Lewis. Nope. The one sweet thing is they took Amani Toomer in round 2 who I was praying for.
Still, Cedric Jones at pick 5 to me is the worst.
I've always been on the side of Dave Brown that thinks he takes too much shit. He was a starting calibre QB for several years, and was hampered by being part of the Jersey Broncos and Reeves.
Guy gave it his all and it wasn't like he had a supporting cast that he let down.
But if I have to select the worst three actual draft picks, it has to be based on both who they took AND who they missed! So a severe reach pick while leaving "HOF best player available talent" on the board. So Derek Brown and Ron Dayne, both of whom might have been top three, did not make the cut because there were no HOFers in the 1992 NFL draft and no HOFers after Dayne was selected in the 2000 NFL draft...
#3. 1995 Tyrone Wheatley (passed on three HOFers - Derrick Brooks, Curtis Martin, Terrell Davis)
#2. 1971 Rocky Thompson (passed on three HOFers - Jack Youngblood, Dan Dierdorf and Jack Ham)
#1. 1996 Cedric Jones (passed on four HOFers - (Marvin Harrison, Ray Lewis, Brian Dawkins, Terrell Owens)
Unfortunately, injuries did him in.
The top half of the first round in 1992 was brutal. Brown was a terrible pick, but so were most of the other guys taken in the top 15.
Steve Emtman
Quentin Coryatt
Sean Gilbert
Desmond Howard
Terrell Buckley
David Klingler
Troy Vincent
Bob Whitfield
Tommy Vardell
Ray Roberts
Leon Searcy
Marco Coleman
Eugene Chung
Derek Brown
Johnny Mitchell
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to be Derek Brown. The guy really had no NFL career to speak of.
Coughlin actually found a use for Derek Brown for a couple of years, as the blocking half of his TE tandem, opposite Pete Mitchell.
The top half of the first round in 1992 was brutal. Brown was a terrible pick, but so were most of the other guys taken in the top 15.
Steve Emtman
Quentin Coryatt
Sean Gilbert
Desmond Howard
Terrell Buckley
David Klingler
Troy Vincent
Bob Whitfield
Tommy Vardell
Ray Roberts
Leon Searcy
Marco Coleman
Eugene Chung
Derek Brown
Johnny Mitchell
Vincent was an all-Pro caliber DB, Searcy was very good in tandem with Boselli, Mitchell was pretty solid for a few years, Whitfield was also solid for years, but much of this list sucked
...and replace him with Ereck Flowers and Eli Apple.
I've always been on the side of Dave Brown that thinks he takes too much shit. He was a starting calibre QB for several years, and was hampered by being part of the Jersey Broncos and Reeves.
Guy gave it his all and it wasn't like he had a supporting cast that he let down.
Agree on Dave Brown. I was always a fan of his. Tough guy who always put in 100%. Definitely could have been a better QB if he'd been in a better situation.
And that hit on Deion Sanders alone is worth the draft selection :) One of the most meaningless yet satisfying plays I'll probably see.
Average was high due to a couple of large runs in late 2012.
He was a bust in terms of a first round draft pick even based on years 1-2.
Sad what happened
Take out 1996, and Lewis appeared in only 21 games, catching 21 balls for 1TD over three years. At least Flowers and Apple are on the field, giving us something to complain about. With those two, Mondays are at least interesting. This guy was invisible milquetoast.
David Wilson, Jarrod Bunch, and George Adams were all good looking prospects who were coming along just fine until they were injured. For all three guys, their physical conditions forced them to quit playing football. I really wish that people would quit lumping these guys in with all of the truly horrible draft choices.
Butch Woolfolk was a BUST. Eric Moore was a BUST. Ron Dayne was a BUST. William Joseph was a BUST. Eric Dorsey, Brian Williams, Luke Petitgout, Prince Amukamara, Kenny Phillips, Mathias Kiwanuka, & Justin Pugh were not busts, but they never played up to their draft slot.
Williams, at 6'-5" 310 could not beat out 6'-3" 265 Bart Oates for 4 or 5 years and then Oates went on to play for the 49ers. Williams started for like one year before being forced to retire because of an eye injury. I wonder if that's considered a bust by some folks on BBI.
I truly believe that if we don't LOVE one of the QBs, our best move on the 26th would be trading down one slot at a time as many times as we can and then drafting to fortify the lines on either side of the ball.
His only saving grace was he was traded to the Steelers for Jim Clack who was a decent center for a few years. Hicks never played for the Steelers.
His only saving grace was he was traded to the Steelers for Jim Clack who was a decent center for a few years. Hicks never played for the Steelers.
You mean the John Hicks who was NFC Offensive Rookie of the Year? RIght, he couldn't play.
He had knee issues, and health from diabetes.
"Hicks, who was selected in the first-round (No. 3 overall) in the 1974 NFL Draft by the Giants, was named the UPI NFC Rookie of Year that same year. He would go on to spend four seasons with the Giants, appearing in 52 games with 50 starts before being traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers for offensive lineman Jim Clack and wide receiver Ernie Pough.
A falling out with then-head coach John McVay and a brawl with teammate Jack Gregory are ultimately what led to his trade."
Former Giants first-round pick John Hicks dead at 65 - ( New Window )
Right. He had an excellent rookie year, and was one of the reasons therer was such high hopes for the D in 2017. A reasonable person would say that the jury is out and he has to prove himself this year.
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The worst use of a first round pick was probably the Craig Morton trade. That was the #2 selection in 1975, which the Cowboys turned into Randy White. The fourth pick that year was Walter Payton. On the other hand, if the Giants had kept the pick, they might very well have taken Ken Huff or Mack Mitchell.
Tucker Frederickson tore up knee, that's why he was shell of himself. this was all before surgery could fix knees up. i guess chicago should blast gale sayers for only having a few good years. geez!
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I'm always going to think Brown could've been a decent QB if he had a better coaching staff and offense to work with
Had the organization scrambling... Kent Graham, Danny Kannell?
Those who remember, by the end, under pressure he would just heave fucking airballs. He was awful. And there was no backup plan.
Was a dark period.
Funny thing though. In terms of wins/losses, mid 90's were better than what we've been dealing with.
Joe Don Looney was a terrible pick but he was gone almost immediately.
David Wilson gets a pass for an undiscovered medical problem.
Guys like Dave Brown, George Adams, our famous one-eyed DE, and some of the others were disappointments, but not even close to the Derek Brown disaster.
And anybody who thinks Jerrod Bunch was a bad pick simply does not know what they are talking about. He would have been a great back, but his career was derailed by an injury.
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Tucker Frederickson was the #1 pick. After his rookie year, he was a shell of the player the Giants drafted. From an ROI standpoint, the worst was probably a top-five pick like him, John Hicks or Cedric Jones - although Frederickson and Hicks were reasonable picks at the time, and Jones was the result of picking fifth in a draft with four blue-chip players and one sociopathic running back.
The worst use of a first round pick was probably the Craig Morton trade. That was the #2 selection in 1975, which the Cowboys turned into Randy White. The fourth pick that year was Walter Payton. On the other hand, if the Giants had kept the pick, they might very well have taken Ken Huff or Mack Mitchell.
Tucker Frederickson tore up knee, that's why he was shell of himself. this was all before surgery could fix knees up. i guess chicago should blast gale sayers for only having a few good years. geez!
He never was in Sayers' class. Or Butkus's.
One guy who isn't the worst, but not getting any mention is Richburg. He had 1 good year, and 3 terrible years. In my opinion, he has been a worse pick than Flowers.
One guy who isn't the worst, but not getting any mention is Richburg. He had 1 good year, and 3 terrible years. In my opinion, he has been a worse pick than Flowers.
Wasn't a first round pick.
One guy who isn't the worst, but not getting any mention is Richburg. He had 1 good year, and 3 terrible years. In my opinion, he has been a worse pick than Flowers.
Richburg was a 2nd Rounder. I think he would have been better served having more of a redshirt year his first season and work solely on getting the strength necessary to be an interior OL. Due to injuries and poor performance by others he was forced into the line-up at OG. In college he was pushed around by DT's and NFL guys are bigger and stronger.
Derek Brown
Thomas Lewis
Tucker Frederickson tore up knee, that's why he was shell of himself. this was all before surgery could fix knees up. i guess chicago should blast gale sayers for only having a few good years. geez!
Genuinely awful picks like Thomas Lewis and Derek Brown belong in a different category than promising players who got hurt, like Frederickson, Wilson and Bunch.
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I would say Cedric Jones.
One guy who isn't the worst, but not getting any mention is Richburg. He had 1 good year, and 3 terrible years. In my opinion, he has been a worse pick than Flowers.
Richburg was a 2nd Rounder. I think he would have been better served having more of a redshirt year his first season and work solely on getting the strength necessary to be an interior OL. Due to injuries and poor performance by others he was forced into the line-up at OG. In college he was pushed around by DT's and NFL guys are bigger and stronger.
He didn't? I remember him starting a lot of games.
exactly! short-lived careers because of injuries doesn't equate to being a bust.
I remember being at a Giants preseason game in 1992 verus the Jets with my Dad and he saw Brown run out of the tunnel. His remark was "who is # so-and-so...wow, he looks like a player!"
Some things you never forget!!
FALSE! He started 50 of 52 games and was Offensive Rookie of the Year. The link is in my 11:52 post.
Joseph was probably the worst for as far back as I can remember closely following the Giants (2000/2001)
he made the Pro Bowl as Kick Returner which has not happen to Giants in many many many years
Derek Brown
Thomas Lewis
Lewis has the infamy of catching clean and running with what should've been a sure walk-in TD pass early in the '94 season and then abruptly tripping over nothing and hurting himself in the process
Then Jarrod Bunch, who takes a FB in the 1st round???
I wanted Alexander and we went with Dayne.
Those are my top head scratchers that also bombed.
Then Jarrod Bunch, who takes a FB in the 1st round???
I wanted Alexander and we went with Dayne.
Those are my top head scratchers that also bombed.
Ron Dayne was great in college but didn't have the openings to run through in the pro game
David Wilson, Jarrod Bunch, and George Adams were all good looking prospects who were coming along just fine until they were injured. For all three guys, their physical conditions forced them to quit playing football. I really wish that people would quit lumping these guys in with all of the truly horrible draft choices.
Butch Woolfolk was a BUST. Eric Moore was a BUST. Ron Dayne was a BUST. William Joseph was a BUST. Eric Dorsey, Brian Williams, Luke Petitgout, Prince Amukamara, Kenny Phillips, Mathias Kiwanuka, & Justin Pugh were not busts, but they never played up to their draft slot.
Williams, at 6'-5" 310 could not beat out 6'-3" 265 Bart Oates for 4 or 5 years and then Oates went on to play for the 49ers. Williams started for like one year before being forced to retire because of an eye injury. I wonder if that's considered a bust by some folks on BBI.
The one year Williams played he was awesome. Pretty much everybody agreed he was a huge upgrade over Oates at that time. The eye injury happened in training camp, it really set the Giants back. It took years to find another competent center.
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I nominate John Hicks,he finished 2nd in Heisman voting. We picked him third overall. Started as a LT later moved to guard. He wasn't very good at either position.
His only saving grace was he was traded to the Steelers for Jim Clack who was a decent center for a few years. Hicks never played for the Steelers.
You mean the John Hicks who was NFC Offensive Rookie of the Year? RIght, he couldn't play.
He had knee issues, and health from diabetes.
"Hicks, who was selected in the first-round (No. 3 overall) in the 1974 NFL Draft by the Giants, was named the UPI NFC Rookie of Year that same year. He would go on to spend four seasons with the Giants, appearing in 52 games with 50 starts before being traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers for offensive lineman Jim Clack and wide receiver Ernie Pough.
A falling out with then-head coach John McVay and a brawl with teammate Jack Gregory are ultimately what led to his trade." Former Giants first-round pick John Hicks dead at 65 - ( New Window )
I remember Hicks... Yeah he ad 1 good year, but after that he was brutal. He was so bad by comparison Flowers looks like Pace or Ogden...
Receiving yards: 401
Touchdowns: 1
The guy was the 14th pick in the draft.
Those numbers are like what Witten did to us for 2 games per year...
rinse...repeat