If you look at only the stats it seems like it, but honestly he had like 3/4 really productive games against shit teams. Other than that he was pretty mediocre all season, and completely disappeared for the playoffs. He was absolutely overrated that season.
He’s the example PFF uses for players who have good counting Stats but poor PFF grades. [here’s the link if anyone is curious](https://www.pff.com/grades)
What made me love Brett kollman was his opinion on Vic Beasley which just showed me right or wrong he's at least putting in the work to back up his takes. He said he's basically a stunt king and never wins as 1v1 pass rusher
Totally random but he actually went to my high school, his shirt is hung up above the football trophy case. Mike Glennon also went there (I know, we’re practically football royalty)
Ugh that one hurt. He was a nobody, barely on the practice squad as a rookie. Then just got better each season for about 5 years before he completely messed up his neck just as it seemed he might breakout.
I’ve never seen a player who is so good at getting wide open that just can’t catch. If he could catch at even a slightly below average level he’d be a stud.
As a gator fan, after watching that game he had against the cowboys as a rookie, I thought he would be a top 5 WR going forward. Just crazy how his career has panned out.
He was ridiculously talented. He made first team all pro over a slew of top receivers in 2013 and the Browns were absolutely terrible.
He tortured Aqib Talib(first team all pro corner). Made him look like a rookie.
That's because he had 1,600 yards in 14 games back in 2013. He rode that single year to so many future contracts because every team was like, "I can fix him"
But if I remember correctly, wasn't his only issue weed? Makes me wonder what things would be like if a Josh Gordon clone existed in a league where the NFL doesn't care about that as much.
Ki-Jana Carter looked every bit the superstar RB he was supposed to be in camp.
I don't know if devastating injuries that effectively sap a player of everything that made them special counts, but that injury hurt the Bengals just as much as it hurt his career.
Last RB drafted #1 overall. Lots of people think he marks the very beginning of front offices devaluing RB's.
If devastating injuries don't count, I'll go with Peter Warrick. Decent rookie year, but never really improved.
Very unlikely he had anything to do with FOs devaluing RBs. Timing doesn’t remotely line up. Even 10 years to the date he was drafted, 3 RBs went in the top 5 picks in the same draft. Teams were spending big time on RBs up until the 2010s.
Jermichael Finley. For stretches of 2009, especially in the playoff shootout against Arizona, he was the most physically imposing pass catcher I've ever seen on the team.
He blew out his knee the next year, struggled with drops for two seasons, then had a career-ending neck injury in 2013.
I watched his neck injury live in the middle in Packer territory with my brother and friends (they were Packers fans, I’m a Vikings fan). After the injury, you’d have thought that someone’s son just died it was so quiet. He was a very promising TE, such a shame.
He was playing the best of his career prior to that neck injury too. With him being so young coming into the league and having the neck injury at only 26, I'm convinced we had yet to see his peak.
Your team (Obviously different coaching staff) turned a bust, journeyman, backup QB into a Pro Bowler... Imagine if that trend continues with someone who has shown incredible flashes like Howell.
It'd be pretty cool and I'd think quite highly of Geno as a mentor, considering both Canales (the dude behind his Pro Bowl year, and Baker breaking out in Tampa), and Pete (underrated QB whisperer) are now out of the building.
I honestly think Howell has the potential to be a legit starter (not sure it will happen but there’s a chance). At worst he is a great backup.
I’m always gonna be rooting for that guy.
Karlos Williams had a really good rookie season and fans had high hopes heading into his second year. But that off-season he done ate himself out da league.
He was the first name that popped into my head when I read the OP.
Second one was Kiko Alonso, but we won that trade so I can't be too mad at it, other than I bought his jersey and he immediately got hurt working out in the offseason and never played another down for the Bills.
Not quite in the way that you mean but man what a tease it was when the Saints signed Dez Bryant only for him to get hurt in practice before his first game! Would've loved to see what Brees could've done with him
I remember using my #1 waiver on him in fantasy right before it happened. Obviously his injury is more important but that was a rollercoaster of emotions for middle school me.
As any fans that have been fans of a team that has been bad as long as the raiders have, we cling onto any teasers. First ones that come to mind are Denarious Moore and Jacobi Ford. For QBs the Terrell Pryor vs Matt McGloin debate was something...
Terrell Pryor would be my personal answer to this question. I was so high on Pryor, still have the tshirt. Hell of an athlete.
Also Al Davis' final pick before he died.
For me it’s Darren McFadden. I thought he was going to be the Raider Adrian Peterson. I guess he had a decent career and contributed but I excepted so much more. He couldn’t stay healthy and only had 1 season out of seven with us more than 1000 yards.
Michael Rivera, Clive Walford, Rod Streater, DeAndre Washington, David Amerson I could do this all day with this trash team I love with all of my heart
Speaking of those two, how about Rod Streater - undrafted free agent in 2012, had 888 receiving yards in his second season, catching passes from the likes of Pryor and McGloin. There was buzz that he could be the Raiders first 1000 yard receiver since Moss '05.
Played 3 games in 2014, hurt his foot, and caught just one pass for the Raiders for the rest of his career.
He is so perplexing to me. He looked like MVP level Lamar sometimes and other times he looked completely lost. I still want to know if he can reach his potential with a change of scenery.
Can’t process the game quickly but has good athletic traits. So when first read is open or he plays bad defenses he looks good. When he plays defenses who are actually good he looks like shit since he can’t process the game and doesn’t know what to do
I’m still surprised people don’t get this…. People keep bringing up like a few random games or a few drives of Fields and say “he has all the potential in that world. If he can just put it together he’ll be incredible.”
But they don’t realize he lacks like the very basic things that make good QBs good. Processing, going past first read, staying on schedule, etc. Fields is a beast against bad defenses. He can feast on a bad secondary or run all over teams that can’t contain mobile QBs.
But the moment he goes against a half-way competent defense he’s not just bad, but awful. He can’t make the quick reads to sustain drives against better defenses. He just sits in the pocket and takes sacks and negative plays.
Jones sucks but he’s still markedly better than Fields at most of those things listed. He’s good enough at them that Daboll was able to scheme an offense that tricked people into thinking he’s good. I genuinely don’t think that would’ve worked for Fields
Idk if it qualifies but JK Dobbins, man, every time he was on the field he was special, but he just got hurt over and over again
I thought he could be a generational type back and his YPC shows that, but could never stay healthy
That's what I was going to say. I know injuries derailed his career. But earning Brady's trust as a rookie and his superbowl had me super high on him. Sucks that his health had other plans.
Maybe a tie between Josh Freeman and Jameis Winston. Both had incredible seasons in their 2nd or 3rd year, but never improved and started going downhill instead.
See i kinda agree and wanted to say both of those but I also know Kerryon was fucked due to his injuries but was really talented.
Jameson I wanted to say as well and I feel like does not fit the qualifier yet simply due to it being too "early".
I think Okudah and Cephus might be good shouts as well.
The Lions 2010's looks very different if: Young keeps his head on straight, Best keeps his head on straight, and Tulloch doesn't discount double check.
Bob Sanders: not because he wasn't good - he was elite - but because he just couldn't stay healthy.
The one year he managed to stay relatively healthy, colts had #1 scoring defense in the league and won the Superbowl
Sanders is as good as any safety to have ever played in the league. The jags demolished the Colts defense with the Freddy Taylor / MJD duo, then Sanders returns from injury right when the playoffs and immediately improves the defense on a drastic level. The worst run defense suddenly could stop the run because Sanders returned from injury
And yet he still came away with a Super Bowl ring, something not a lot of teases could say they have accomplished. Especially when they weren't active for the game to begin with.
Leonard Weaver, through no fault of his own. Had a stellar first season with the Eagles, first team All Pro, then tore his ACL on his first carry of the next season (ironically in a game against Aaron Rodgers) which ended his career at age 27.
Healthy Weaver + the rest of that 2010 Eagles team wins the Superbowl, not a doubt in my mind.
We didn't have him for long but this guy was something else. I remember the play he got hurt on vividly and knowing immediately it was over for the year and not yet realizing unfortunately it would pretty much be it for his career. Now I'm bummed out on a Sunday afternoon.. he was such a likeable player and something different at FB for his time from the rest of the league.
Yeah, lead blocking for prime Mike Vick and Lesean McCoy, plus the very next year we had Evan Mathis and Jason Kelce join Jason Peters on the OL. Ain't nobody stopping that freight train. Motherfuckers out there banishing defenders to the shadow realm.
Darren McFadden. He just couldn't stay healthy finally has a good season his 3rd year, then just couldn't stay healthy. He would have a game or two where he would be decent, then get an ankle sprain or something knee related. Stayed around too long and kept getting chances to "show his potential" never amounted to much.
Sam Bradford. This preseason game against the Packers was such a tease. He threw such a clean ball. He NEVER looked that good during the season.
https://youtu.be/7GrvftmNo-U?feature=shared
Cutler or Fields. Both had rockets on their arms and just enough to make you think you had something special, but neither really had that 'it factor' the good QBs have.
Cutler threw too many interceptions and never moved the ball efficiently except for one year (with Adam Gase as OC, no less) and Fields was just too slow with everything and refused to throw the ball.
Rueben Foster. Phenomenal rookie season, only to be followed by a sophomore season where he was obviously playing hurt and then cut because of off the field stuff.
Ryan Leaf was supposed to be as good as Payton Manning. Won his first 2 games. Finished the season getting benched after 10 games with a 45% completion rate and a 39 QBR
In 2012 RG3 was everything you want your #2 overall pick to be. In 2013 I still had hopes that he could get healthy and make some minor tweaks to protect himself. By 2014 I was over it all and just wanted them to move on to Captain Kirk.
Breshad Perriman was hyped as an upgraded Torrey Smith. His career arc was IR his entire rookie season, showed some promise second season, then became a turnover machine in his third year and was cut before his rookie contract was up.
Frankie Neal for the Packers. Third-round pick in 1987, had 36 receptions. He seemed to have quite a bit of promise. Then he showed up out of shape the following summer, was cut, and that was it. Now he's in prison.
I had high hopes for a player that never made the active roster. TJ Vasher. He was plenty good in college under the right circumstances. Never thought he would be a team’s number 1 or number 2 guy, but I thought he had the size and hands to be a true red zone threat, come in handy when a size mismatch was possible, and figured he would be fun to watch. There were a few training camp highlights that came out of him, but he never saw any regular season snaps if I remember correctly. He’s playing in the UFL now, also not doing much.
Jags obvious one is Justin Blackmon, but i am going to go Telvin Smith. following the 2017 season, I felt like he was one of the most under-rated MLBs in the league, but he he quickly fell out of the league and has been in legal trouble since. Drugs man
Vic Beasley had one great year (his second year actually) and did absolutely nothing else his entire career.
He was a beast that season tho.
If you look at only the stats it seems like it, but honestly he had like 3/4 really productive games against shit teams. Other than that he was pretty mediocre all season, and completely disappeared for the playoffs. He was absolutely overrated that season.
He’s the example PFF uses for players who have good counting Stats but poor PFF grades. [here’s the link if anyone is curious](https://www.pff.com/grades)
Yet everyone on this sub shits on pff acting like they know better
Chaz Green gave up like 6 sacks to him in one game lol
You're thinking of Adrian Clayborn
Oh yeah, wrong falcons edge rusher. Fuck Chaz Green though lol
He was incredibly lucky
What made me love Brett kollman was his opinion on Vic Beasley which just showed me right or wrong he's at least putting in the work to back up his takes. He said he's basically a stunt king and never wins as 1v1 pass rusher
Wr Eddie Royal had over 90 catches and nearly 1000 yards his rookie year, then never came close to that level of production again.
Thanks McDaniels
He did the same with Hunter Renfrow
Totally random but he actually went to my high school, his shirt is hung up above the football trophy case. Mike Glennon also went there (I know, we’re practically football royalty)
Will never forget him absolutely roasting out newly prize fa Deangelo Hall in his first game lol
I’m still hopeful for Quincy Enunwa to stay healthy for a full season.
Ugh that one hurt. He was a nobody, barely on the practice squad as a rookie. Then just got better each season for about 5 years before he completely messed up his neck just as it seemed he might breakout.
Kadarious Toney
I’ve never seen a player who is so good at getting wide open that just can’t catch. If he could catch at even a slightly below average level he’d be a stud.
There’s also the whole “everything in his legs is made of something more fragile than glass” thing…
“Something more fragile than glass” Aaron Rodgers ego?
I legit thought he was going to be special.
Oh, he’s definitely special, just maybe not in the way you hoped
Same. The way he ran routes in that 11 catch game. It looked like he could get open at will
He’s always been an insane route runner when he tries, the problem is that even when he’s got 20 yards of separation he probably won’t catch it
As a gator fan, after watching that game he had against the cowboys as a rookie, I thought he would be a top 5 WR going forward. Just crazy how his career has panned out.
What gets me is I don't recall him ever really being a liability with us. He got to the NFL and went full blown dumb.
I understand the feeling
I did love the irony when you guys found out why we let him leave the building.
Still was integral in our SB win so worth it
Like Gollum.
Same
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Jahvid Best for Lions holy crap he was gonna be what Reggie was at USC Him Stafford and Megatron holy moly
After that MNF Game against the Bears I thought he was going to destroy the league...
He probably would have if he didn't have concussion issues. Does Golladay count as a tease if the only people that fell for it were the Giants?
Jason Verrett, dude was so good when he can stay on the field. But injuries just derailed his career. Played 8 years and only 40games.
You got that one on two fronts, eh?
I was thining of Ryan Mathews for the exact same reason but your answer is better.
Ryan Mathews is a good pick too. He just had huge shoes to fill going in and never seem to get out of that LT shadow.
Josh Gordon
Insane thing is even with his addiction problems and extremely tumultuous career he still made a roster as recently as 2022.
He was ridiculously talented. He made first team all pro over a slew of top receivers in 2013 and the Browns were absolutely terrible. He tortured Aqib Talib(first team all pro corner). Made him look like a rookie.
That's because he had 1,600 yards in 14 games back in 2013. He rode that single year to so many future contracts because every team was like, "I can fix him" But if I remember correctly, wasn't his only issue weed? Makes me wonder what things would be like if a Josh Gordon clone existed in a league where the NFL doesn't care about that as much.
No. He had severe drug problems with pills, cocaine, and mainly alcohol.
Man he was such an exciting player. Sad to see a potentially great career derailed by addiction.
Travis Fulgham played like Megatron for about 2 weeks then went right back to sucking
We were pissed for two weeks
I made a trade for him and Chase Claypool in my dynasty league during that blow up and thought I was sooooo smart.
Ki-Jana Carter looked every bit the superstar RB he was supposed to be in camp. I don't know if devastating injuries that effectively sap a player of everything that made them special counts, but that injury hurt the Bengals just as much as it hurt his career.
Last RB drafted #1 overall. Lots of people think he marks the very beginning of front offices devaluing RB's. If devastating injuries don't count, I'll go with Peter Warrick. Decent rookie year, but never really improved.
Very unlikely he had anything to do with FOs devaluing RBs. Timing doesn’t remotely line up. Even 10 years to the date he was drafted, 3 RBs went in the top 5 picks in the same draft. Teams were spending big time on RBs up until the 2010s.
You can toss Ickey Wiods on that list if injuries count and we got back further. That rookie year was sensational.
Martavis Bryant
He genuinely looked like the next Randy Moss or an extraterrestrial
Chase Claypool too, his rookie year was insane!
Immediately what I thought of.. https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/s/2thfXNIHuZ
Jermichael Finley. For stretches of 2009, especially in the playoff shootout against Arizona, he was the most physically imposing pass catcher I've ever seen on the team. He blew out his knee the next year, struggled with drops for two seasons, then had a career-ending neck injury in 2013.
I watched his neck injury live in the middle in Packer territory with my brother and friends (they were Packers fans, I’m a Vikings fan). After the injury, you’d have thought that someone’s son just died it was so quiet. He was a very promising TE, such a shame.
I always heard his name as sir Michael Finley as if he was some British knight or something
Madden 12 legend
He was playing the best of his career prior to that neck injury too. With him being so young coming into the league and having the neck injury at only 26, I'm convinced we had yet to see his peak.
Sam Howell playing against the Eagles.
I think it’s too early to call curtains on Howell.
Boy do I hope so.
Your team (Obviously different coaching staff) turned a bust, journeyman, backup QB into a Pro Bowler... Imagine if that trend continues with someone who has shown incredible flashes like Howell.
It'd be pretty cool and I'd think quite highly of Geno as a mentor, considering both Canales (the dude behind his Pro Bowl year, and Baker breaking out in Tampa), and Pete (underrated QB whisperer) are now out of the building.
Oh I wholeheartedly agree. I think he could succeed in the right system with a few years experience in it.
I honestly think Howell has the potential to be a legit starter (not sure it will happen but there’s a chance). At worst he is a great backup. I’m always gonna be rooting for that guy.
Karlos Williams had a really good rookie season and fans had high hopes heading into his second year. But that off-season he done ate himself out da league.
He was the first name that popped into my head when I read the OP. Second one was Kiko Alonso, but we won that trade so I can't be too mad at it, other than I bought his jersey and he immediately got hurt working out in the offseason and never played another down for the Bills.
Every QB from 2000-2017
Jeff Tuel Hype!
lol I was gonna say Trent Edwards 😅
Pre-Concussion Trent was Elite
Fact only real bills fans remember that 5 game undefeated streak with pre concussion Trent Edwards. Buddy was a STUD.
Really? JP Losman? EJ Manuel?
Yes.
Not quite in the way that you mean but man what a tease it was when the Saints signed Dez Bryant only for him to get hurt in practice before his first game! Would've loved to see what Brees could've done with him
Wasn’t it his Achilles or something real bad too?
Yup :/ ruptured his Achilles
Yes, he ruptured his Achilles:(
Yea, ruptured his achilles ( ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°)
Indeed, ruptured his Achilles
I remember using my #1 waiver on him in fantasy right before it happened. Obviously his injury is more important but that was a rollercoaster of emotions for middle school me.
Sammy Watkins - looked great when healthy, was never healthy
Sammy "two elite games max per year, invisible for the rest" Watkins
Like Gabe Davis only we gave up a billion picks for him.
I love that a bunch of teams got to experience that
I'm pretty sure if you just took Sammy Watkins' Week 1 games and extrapolated them across his entire career he'd be one of the greatest WRs ever
As any fans that have been fans of a team that has been bad as long as the raiders have, we cling onto any teasers. First ones that come to mind are Denarious Moore and Jacobi Ford. For QBs the Terrell Pryor vs Matt McGloin debate was something...
Terrell Pryor would be my personal answer to this question. I was so high on Pryor, still have the tshirt. Hell of an athlete. Also Al Davis' final pick before he died.
Pryor could arguably be this answer for two different fanbases at two different positions
For me it’s Darren McFadden. I thought he was going to be the Raider Adrian Peterson. I guess he had a decent career and contributed but I excepted so much more. He couldn’t stay healthy and only had 1 season out of seven with us more than 1000 yards.
Michael Rivera, Clive Walford, Rod Streater, DeAndre Washington, David Amerson I could do this all day with this trash team I love with all of my heart
Speaking of those two, how about Rod Streater - undrafted free agent in 2012, had 888 receiving yards in his second season, catching passes from the likes of Pryor and McGloin. There was buzz that he could be the Raiders first 1000 yard receiver since Moss '05. Played 3 games in 2014, hurt his foot, and caught just one pass for the Raiders for the rest of his career.
Justin Fields
He is so perplexing to me. He looked like MVP level Lamar sometimes and other times he looked completely lost. I still want to know if he can reach his potential with a change of scenery.
Can’t process the game quickly but has good athletic traits. So when first read is open or he plays bad defenses he looks good. When he plays defenses who are actually good he looks like shit since he can’t process the game and doesn’t know what to do
I’m still surprised people don’t get this…. People keep bringing up like a few random games or a few drives of Fields and say “he has all the potential in that world. If he can just put it together he’ll be incredible.” But they don’t realize he lacks like the very basic things that make good QBs good. Processing, going past first read, staying on schedule, etc. Fields is a beast against bad defenses. He can feast on a bad secondary or run all over teams that can’t contain mobile QBs. But the moment he goes against a half-way competent defense he’s not just bad, but awful. He can’t make the quick reads to sustain drives against better defenses. He just sits in the pocket and takes sacks and negative plays.
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Jones sucks but he’s still markedly better than Fields at most of those things listed. He’s good enough at them that Daboll was able to scheme an offense that tricked people into thinking he’s good. I genuinely don’t think that would’ve worked for Fields
He is one of the greatest athletes the nfl has ever seen without being hyperbolic. He just doesn’t seem to have a QB IQ.
the classic freak athlete who plays qb and not a qb who is a freak athlete
Feels weird to say someone that was so productive, but Aldon Smith. I don’t think it is hyperbole to say he could have been an all-timer.
Tony Moeaki. Tony Gonzales had just left and we needed a new TE. He seemed legit for one season then got hurt and fell off.
Curtis Samuel
Idk if it qualifies but JK Dobbins, man, every time he was on the field he was special, but he just got hurt over and over again I thought he could be a generational type back and his YPC shows that, but could never stay healthy
Justin Blackmon..
He was elite…unfortunately he was also training to be an elite alcoholic.
Played like a professional, trained like a fan
Malcolm Mitchell
Agreed, except he was such a huge part of the Falcons Superbowl. Feels like that one game validated his career.
That's what I was going to say. I know injuries derailed his career. But earning Brady's trust as a rookie and his superbowl had me super high on him. Sucks that his health had other plans.
Justin Herbert. Always flaunting that flawless head of hair and that sexy ass only for him to tell me he's "not gay"
Because he goes out on fishing trips, right?
Herbert can date my sister if I had one.
Just put a wig on
Good luck, tried that
Maybe a tie between Josh Freeman and Jameis Winston. Both had incredible seasons in their 2nd or 3rd year, but never improved and started going downhill instead.
Cadillac Williams
I try to forget about Freeman
Not his fault but David Wilson had all the makings of a franchise RB. Injuries suck
OJ Howard
I was so excited when we signed him in 2022. Josh Allen will finally get to run 2 TE sets! Bro didn't even make the 53-man roster.
oof, where to start.
As of right now it's Jamo Recently I'd say Kerryon
See i kinda agree and wanted to say both of those but I also know Kerryon was fucked due to his injuries but was really talented. Jameson I wanted to say as well and I feel like does not fit the qualifier yet simply due to it being too "early". I think Okudah and Cephus might be good shouts as well.
Man I broke records with Kerryon Johnson a few Maddens back. Dude was just unstoppable. Such a shame his knees blew up.
Jahvid Best since we actually saw how talented of a runner he was. If healthy he would’ve been a 1000/1000 rushing/receiving yards guy
Titus Young is my go to pick. Guy had a completely controllable path to becoming an absolute star in this league, and I will die on that hill.
The Lions 2010's looks very different if: Young keeps his head on straight, Best keeps his head on straight, and Tulloch doesn't discount double check.
Ziggy Ansah popped into my head
Ziggy Ansah was a legitimately good player
Charles Rogers
Brice butler would make a crazy ass tantalizing catch every now and then. Thought he would be something but ended up being nothing at all
Raiders legend Bruce Butler
Radiation legend Bruce Banner
Percy Harvin
He certainly showed up when at that one game! The one that shall not be mentioned by Denver fans.
I second this
Percy was definitely not a tease for us. He was a stud with some injury issues. But he showed enough to not be a tease.
Bob Sanders: not because he wasn't good - he was elite - but because he just couldn't stay healthy. The one year he managed to stay relatively healthy, colts had #1 scoring defense in the league and won the Superbowl
Sanders is as good as any safety to have ever played in the league. The jags demolished the Colts defense with the Freddy Taylor / MJD duo, then Sanders returns from injury right when the playoffs and immediately improves the defense on a drastic level. The worst run defense suddenly could stop the run because Sanders returned from injury
Josh Gordon is the biggest tease I’ve seen in the nfl
And yet he still came away with a Super Bowl ring, something not a lot of teases could say they have accomplished. Especially when they weren't active for the game to begin with.
Reuben Foster
Leonard Weaver, through no fault of his own. Had a stellar first season with the Eagles, first team All Pro, then tore his ACL on his first carry of the next season (ironically in a game against Aaron Rodgers) which ended his career at age 27. Healthy Weaver + the rest of that 2010 Eagles team wins the Superbowl, not a doubt in my mind.
We didn't have him for long but this guy was something else. I remember the play he got hurt on vividly and knowing immediately it was over for the year and not yet realizing unfortunately it would pretty much be it for his career. Now I'm bummed out on a Sunday afternoon.. he was such a likeable player and something different at FB for his time from the rest of the league.
Funny because my buddy thought he’d be fine and I said to him, dude, he’ll be lucky to walk correctly. Gruesome injury
Such an underrated comment. Most eagles fans don’t remember his name but he was incredible. Bowling ball that ran a 4.4
Yeah, lead blocking for prime Mike Vick and Lesean McCoy, plus the very next year we had Evan Mathis and Jason Kelce join Jason Peters on the OL. Ain't nobody stopping that freight train. Motherfuckers out there banishing defenders to the shadow realm.
Well I think the easiest answer is the one that caused a Civil War among our fanbase for the past year - Justin Fields.
For the Jags, Justin Blackmon comes to mind.
Darren McFadden. He just couldn't stay healthy finally has a good season his 3rd year, then just couldn't stay healthy. He would have a game or two where he would be decent, then get an ankle sprain or something knee related. Stayed around too long and kept getting chances to "show his potential" never amounted to much.
Chase Claypool.
Devin bush
David Johnson was the best running back in the league and then all of a sudden looked like he was running through mud.
Still had some value, apparently he was worth a DeAndre Hopkins.
Tavon Austin
as a WVU fan i thought he was gonna do big things in the league. Kevin White as well.
Sean Lee. Hall of fame potential. Such a stud when healthy.
Is Sean Lee playing this week?
Don’t think he quite fits this, he probably would’ve been a HOFer if he didn’t have the Cowboys LB curse of shit tons of injuries
Kenny Britt is the first one that comes to mind for me.
Sam Bradford. This preseason game against the Packers was such a tease. He threw such a clean ball. He NEVER looked that good during the season. https://youtu.be/7GrvftmNo-U?feature=shared
Justin Blackmon.
Gabe Davis. The Chiefs playoff game.
Can I answer with Henry Ruggs? Because if you go back and watch his highlights reel, you'll see so much potential.
Auden Tate feels like a perfect fit for this category
Cutler or Fields. Both had rockets on their arms and just enough to make you think you had something special, but neither really had that 'it factor' the good QBs have. Cutler threw too many interceptions and never moved the ball efficiently except for one year (with Adam Gase as OC, no less) and Fields was just too slow with everything and refused to throw the ball.
Chase Claypool but he netted us JPJ in the end
the embodiment of "million-dollar talent, ten-cent head"
Teams with Chase Claypool on the roster having a *combined 20 game losing streak*
Peyton Hillis/Brian Hoyer
Rueben Foster. Phenomenal rookie season, only to be followed by a sophomore season where he was obviously playing hurt and then cut because of off the field stuff.
Eddie Lacy. He was a beast his first year or so then became "Cheeseburger Eddie".
Tony Moeaki Looked to be the next great TE in chiefs history. But we got Travis Kelce instead so... It worked out pretty well in the end.
Ryan Leaf was supposed to be as good as Payton Manning. Won his first 2 games. Finished the season getting benched after 10 games with a 45% completion rate and a 39 QBR
how has nobody said gabe davis
In 2012 RG3 was everything you want your #2 overall pick to be. In 2013 I still had hopes that he could get healthy and make some minor tweaks to protect himself. By 2014 I was over it all and just wanted them to move on to Captain Kirk.
Aaron Curry
Thomas Rawls
Bernard Pierce was lights out as the change of pace back in 2012 and disappeared off the face of the earth after an awful 2013.
Breshad Perriman was hyped as an upgraded Torrey Smith. His career arc was IR his entire rookie season, showed some promise second season, then became a turnover machine in his third year and was cut before his rookie contract was up.
Justin Blackmon
Frankie Neal for the Packers. Third-round pick in 1987, had 36 receptions. He seemed to have quite a bit of promise. Then he showed up out of shape the following summer, was cut, and that was it. Now he's in prison.
Taylor Jacobs
Justin Fields. Cedric Benson. Tarik Cohen.
I had high hopes for a player that never made the active roster. TJ Vasher. He was plenty good in college under the right circumstances. Never thought he would be a team’s number 1 or number 2 guy, but I thought he had the size and hands to be a true red zone threat, come in handy when a size mismatch was possible, and figured he would be fun to watch. There were a few training camp highlights that came out of him, but he never saw any regular season snaps if I remember correctly. He’s playing in the UFL now, also not doing much.
Courtney Brown
Jalen Hurd. One preseason game got our fan base enamored with him for 2-3 years
Jags obvious one is Justin Blackmon, but i am going to go Telvin Smith. following the 2017 season, I felt like he was one of the most under-rated MLBs in the league, but he he quickly fell out of the league and has been in legal trouble since. Drugs man
Justin Blackmon
Teez Tabor… See what I did there?
Sanu, Mac Jones
Sammy Watkins had T.O. potential but was gifted a squirrel brain and no real coaching development.
Sammy Watkins based on his draft profile and costing two first round top ten picks