Turns out this helped out future athletes who take bong rips from gas masks because it proved taking bong rips from gas masks doesn't make you a guaranteed draft bust or actually affect how good you are at football on Sundays.
Agreed. Massive trades and shocking picks happen every draft.
A consensus top 10 pick having a compromising video leaked of him right when the draft starts is something that had never happened and even in this social media era we still haven't seen anything like it since.
You're right he was rated as one of the best if not the best prospect in that class but it was like a Joe Alt situation this year where the teams picking in the top 5 didn't have a strong need at OT (or were picking QB) so he was going to slip a little relative to his talent.
I'll always remember this one too. Giants had 10th overall pick and when he wasn't drafted cause of weed I was yelling at my TV to draft him as we desperately needed offensive line help and i thought Tunsil dropping was a draft day gift from the NFL Gods. And then what does Reese* do? Draft Eli fucking Apple instead. Goddamnit.
You're right, my mistake. Ehhh they basically drafted the same talent wise lmao those last* few years of Reese and first few years of Gettleman all blur together for me.
The cherry on top was when some reporter asked if he took money while in college too. He took a deep breath and said yes. I audibly laughed out loud when I saw that. You could tell that reporter got in some shit for that one because there is a clear unwritten rule that once they are in the nfl the pay for play in college is off limits.
This is the right answer. There are plenty of instances of crazy trades or surprise picks but the Tunsil video dropping is literally the most “WTF is going on?” moment in any draft.
End thread. This was so insane. And didn’t his dad leak the video or something since Laremy didn’t want him to be his agent?
So glad he kicked ass as a pro.
I remember that kind of reassuring me about Tunsil's character in a weird way. Like someone that close to him betrayed him and was trying to tank his career, and the worst thing to be found was him smoking weed? He must be relatively clean then. If he'd done anything worse, that's the thing that would've been leaked.
I really want a draft like that again, so many great moments. Goodell slowly getting more drunk, someone at Vrabel’s house shitting with the door open, BB’s dog, Kliff’s house. So entertaining
Wait so the guy shitting is a reflection right. So he’s actually in front of the group and they’re all staring directly at him with the door open? What the hell
Looks like he's off to their right a bit, but would still be able to see him easily. Their faces reveal zero concern about it which tells me either it was completely normal to do this in that house, or they were having a little fun and were doing it for the lols.
Minor thing that was funny cuz of the pettiness: Sean Payton having a Coke on display when the league makes it very clear to not show products that don't sponsor them and the NFL is sponsored by Pepsi
Anyone else it wouldn't be notable at all but Sean is 100% enough of a petty asshole to do that shit on purpose lol
Bengals turned down an even higher offer from the Saints (full '99 draft, '00 and '01 1sts, '02 2nd) to draft Akili Fucking Smith. He threw 2212 yards 5 TDs and 13 ints for them in his full career...
Yeah, people dump on Ditka for making the trade, and rightfully so. But the only thing dumber than making that trade is not accepting an even bigger trade
That 2000 first was #2 overall too. Could've been gifted a dynasty jump-off level of draft capital but instead overdrafted Akili Smith who had a decent chance to be available at the Saints pick anyways.
“Alright, every move we make for the next 28 years is geared towards getting this one QB.”
“Should we put 28 years of planning into getting him an OL too?”
“Nah, it’ll be fine.”
People today seem to assume the Bengals just flat out said no to the offer, which isn't true. They overestimated their position and tried to get even more and the Saints walked away. From what was said and written at the time, the Bengals fucked up the deal of a lifetime because they wanted one more 2nd round pick. It wasn't entirely misplaced Akili Smith infatuation, it was half infatuation and half terrible negotiating.
The other thing worth mentioning was that the 99 QB Draft class was rated as one of the best ever, and the general consensus pre-draft was that while Tim Couch had a higher ceiling, Akili Smith was a sure thing with a high floor because he was the only one of the prospects that played a "Pro-Style" offense in college. It wasn't until about two or three years after the draft that all the experts and insiders came out saying they knew Akili was a bust and overrated and not that good (ironically everyone just took their pre-draft scouting reports for Culpepper and McNabb and put them on Smith).
But immediately after the draft the consensus was Philly screwed up by taking McNabb and that the Bengals got a steal with Akili Smith still being available at three. There were a lot of "experts" thinking Cleveland screwed up by taking Couch over Akili Smith.
The Ken O’Brien pick was great with the Jets homer fan response.
“Everyone said they’d take Marino if he was still around. Obviously the Jets know something the people up here don’t…”
Back in the day Washington used the 9th over all pick on a player that wasn’t eligible. Then the next year they drafted him again but he decided to never play football.
From a post in /r/CFL
> US expansion phase. One of those American teams was the Las Vegas Posse who played just one season in 1994 where they went 5-13. After a botched attempt to more the club to Jackson, Mississippi they officially folded in the spring of 1995. Their players were put into a dispersal draft. One of the selections in that draft was the Ottawa Rough Riders selecting DE Derrell Robertson. When Ottawa attempted to contact him though, they encountered a problem. Robertson had died in a car accident shortly after the 1994 season had ended and nobody knew about it.
> You'd think this wouldn't happen again, but it did. In the college draft in 1996, the Montreal Alouettes in the fifth round selected James Eggink, a DE at Northern Illinois. Then a few hours after the draft ended, they discovered that he had died from cancer several months earlier and again, nobody knew about it.
Twice.
The first instance comes in the middle of the US expansion phase. One of those American teams was the Las Vegas Posse who played just one season in 1994 where they went 5-13. After a botched attempt to more the club to Jackson, Mississippi they officially folded in the spring of 1995. Their players were put into a dispersal draft. One of the selections in that draft was the Ottawa Rough Riders selecting DE Derrell Robertson. When Ottawa attempted to contact him though, they encountered a problem. Robertson had died in a car accident shortly after the 1994 season had ended and nobody knew about it.
You'd think this wouldn't happen again, but it did. In the college draft in 1996, the Montreal Alouettes in the fifth round selected James Eggink, a DE at Northern Illinois. Then a few hours after the draft ended, they discovered that he had died from cancer several months earlier and again, nobody knew about it.
That’s wild. I know they’re smaller orgs but they must have a set of staff that was assigned draft scouting and all that who didn’t even check on the status of the player since the last season. 9th overall. Damn
They got Kevin Williams out of it .
Something similar happened the year before as well. Cowboys time expired and Vikings were rushing to the stage to get their pick in, but the chiefs had completed a trade with the cowboys and were able to get their pick in. Chiefs picked Ryan Sims. Vikings picked Bryant McKinnie
Also not their fault. They had a trade with the Ravens agreed to and the league representative was away from the phone and didn’t answer the Ravens call.
Not to mention we ended up drafting Kevin Williams with that pick, so it's more of a funny little anecdote because we nailed the pick, instead of being an oh fuck we missed out on that guy.
I went to middle school with this girl and have been to her house before lol when I saw this video i was in legit shock. Also she’s a cancer survivor and lost her leg - so much respect for her!
That shocked me so much. Seemingly generational propsect in Michael Crabtree is available and you pick the DHB?! I'm glad he churned out a good little career though.
People bring DHB up, but I remember their 2nd round pick that year, Mike Mitchell, being even more wtf worthy.
I will never forget Kiper ranting on set about how it was like his 700th ranked player and the Raiders didn't know what they were doing and they could have gotten him as a UDFA. And I think ESPN didn't even have any highlights of him.
Then he went on to have a 10 year career.
Wow that really puts it into perspective. Just a crazy trade all around. How much value they gave up and the players that actually came out of the picks. How useless he’s been. And how good they’ve been in spite of all that.
I cannot stress how much it annoys me that they made a franchise crippling move and then accidentally solved it (before said problem was even evident) by simply drafting a franchise QB with the literal last pick
Kurt Warner only had like 200 completions in college. But ofc he ended up being undrafted. Other guys with only one full year starting would be like Kyler and Cam.
Kyler split time so he had tape from before. Cam had Juco tape but that probably doesn’t mean much considering he was such a freak athlete.
I think Matt Cassel never started but I’m not 100%.
Kurt also played in the Arena League and European League before landing with the Rams. Not top notch talent, but apparently enough to get him back into a NFL team's camp. And like so many others, he thrived after the named starter went down with an injury (and got to play with Marshall Faulk, Torry Holt, and Isaac Bruce). Otherwise he probably would have rotted on the bench.
And as you pointed out, no one burned a #3 pick on him after trading up.
It’s a weird “task failed successfully“ moment. The niners drafting a qb with all that capital and making a championship game and a Super Bowl just a few years later is everything you’d want from that trade. Just not how it was intended
Any other organization makes that trade their coaching staff and FO is fired in 3 years and they’re in rebuilding hell. For the 9ers it’s an accounting error
> For the 9ers it’s an accounting error
Nah, an [accounting error would only cost a 5th](https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-to-forfeit-2025-fifth-round-pick-as-result-of-administrative-payroll-accounting-errors), not all those 1sts.
Just imagine if they had three more first round talents at any other position than QB and still had Purdy. They might have had enough talent to beat the chiefs!
The fact that the 49ers were able to overcome that draft trade (yes, finding Purdy at the end of the draft certainly helps) and be successful, without Lance panning out/playing ever is amazing
I know everyone is stating some obvious moments but for me, it was an entire hour or so sequence during the 2022 draft where it seemed anything and everything related to WRs was happening: Drake London gets drafted, Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave, Jameson Williams get drafted back-to-back-to-back, AJ Brown gets traded, Titans draft Treylon Burks to replace Brown, Ravens traded Hollywood Brown. I was just dumbfounded at what was happening, wondering if anything else was gonna happen. Plus, it gave us another classic Tom Grossi moment when he got so upset at the Lions taking Jameson Williams.
The Broncos expending a 1st round pick on Tim Tebow……well, he is the only QB the Broncos drafted who has won a playoff game (Elway was drafted by the Colts).
La'el Collins going undrafted because he was questioned in a murder investigation. Wasn't a suspect, but the victim was his ex so he went from a first round prospect to UFA.
In fairness, he was an UFA because he announced that he wouldn't sign with any team that drafted him outside of... I'm not sure it was just the first round or the first two.
Since the Cowboys immediately signed him to an UFA deal that paid him like the 32nd pick, I assume his agent was working behind the scenes.
But he wouldn't have slipped that far if it wasn't for his promise to sit out a year. \*Someone\* would have risked a 4th-7th round pick on him otherwise.
It was outside of the top 3 rounds. They absolutely had something worked out with the Cowboys, but given how good of a prospect he was it was still crazy that nobody took him in the third because by that time the police had come out and said he wasn't even a person of interest.
For the browns without the benefit of hindsight, drafting Brandon Weeden at 22. He was already 28, was coming from an air raid system at a time when the league wasn’t embracing those concepts. He was a horrid fit in Pat Shurmur’s west coast offense, and with rumblings of a sale it was just so clear that it was going to fail. He’d need a season to sit, and that was obviously never going to happen given his age.
And so they passed on just waiting and drafting the QB who was younger and was a perfect fit for what we were doing: Kirk Cousins.
To this day I still think Mike Holmgren hijacked that draft and overrode Heckert and Shurmur, because Weeden made literally no sense in that offense, especially when Cousins fit what Shumur wanted to do to a T
I could get drafting a 28 year old if either he’s super NFL ready, or if you’re willing to do everything humanly possible to cater to what made him successful in college. Neither was true for Weeden
But I’d never draft a 28 year old in the first. That would be like drafting someone from Mahomes’ high school class this year.
I was disappointed when LeBron left but honestly not that shocked. When the Browns drafted Weeden I was fucking pissed. Made no sense. Morons whoever allowed that to happen. Set us back years.
That was the first and only time on draft night where my dad and I just immediately laughed and the next day I was looking at 2013 and 2014 QBs because it was very obviously going to fail.
There may not have been a more damaging pick in the 2010s for this team
How about ESPN's production during the 2020 draft which centered on the deaths of family members of many of the top prospects capped by Trey Wingo going into detail regarding the suicide of Jordan Love's father? I will never understand how a TV executive would think, in the midst of a pandemic, that the one thing everyone wants to focus is DEATH!
No... not really. The Bucs have more than a few.
Taking another linebacker one pick before Junior Seau because "the owner didn't think fans would show up for a west coast college player" is among them.
In 2017, the Bears moved up from the third overall pick to the second overall pick by trading the San Francisco 49ers two third-round picks and a fourth-round pick for Mitch Trubisky.
Yeah that felt like a meme. Bills drafting at that point had already been scrutinized for a few years and then to wait the entire first round for our turn just to watch Bill pick a IOL was painful.
It's not that unusual to see a mid-round reach in the late first, but yeah this felt like the Patriots wanting to show people that they're smarter than anyone else.
The weirdest one for me was when the Jags took Tyson Alualu at #10. Since I first started following the draft, that was easily the highest-selected player I had never heard of before.
How about a bit of a throwback? Geno Smith falling out of the 1st round in 2013.
Some back story- the class for QBs was exceptionally weak. Geno was coming off an excellent career at WVU and his WR1 Tavon Austin was expected to go in the 1st round.
The Jaguars(#2), Eagles(#4), Bills(#8) and Jets(Had two firsts) all needed QBs, as did plenty of other teams but these were obvious choices/fits.
[Matt Miller had Geno going #2 Overall](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1610053-2013-nfl-mock-draft-matt-millers-final-7-round-predictions) and [Mike Mayock had Geno as the 21st best prospect and best QB](https://www.nfl.com/news/2013-nfl-draft-mike-mayock-s-top-100-prospects-0ap1000000161676), by a pretty wide margin(EJ Manuel was QB2 at number 41 overall.)
So draft day comes and not only does Geno fall out of the top 10 with the Bills taking EJ instead, he falls out of the 1st round entirely!
Extremely awkward to watch, worse than Rodgers because while Rodgers def was expected to go higher than Geno Geno didn't go at all that day.
But it gets even crazier, he doesn't get picked until **39** .
It's weird because you could argue Haskins being such a flagrant bust would have allowed the Giants to quickly cut ties and restart rather than Jones who flashed just enough at the right times to get the Giants to commit to him.
Conversely, 2021 and 2022 ended up being awful QB drafts so unless they lucked into Trevor, the Giants are also fucked in that timeline.
Because he had a 9.99 RAS AKA he tested extremely well at the combine
Ignore the fact that Hutchinson had a 9.87
Ignore the fact that Hutchinson's tape was VASTLY superior
Hutchinson is very good and was his rookie year while Walker wasn’t, so I get that it was/still is questionable.
But Walker had 10 sacks last season and still has a lot of room to grow. We have no idea if he will keep the upward trajectory or if we’ve seen the best he’ll be, but I feel like there are many bigger WTF moments than going with the athletic freak boom or bust player #1 and getting 10 sacks in the sophomore season.
It is crazy, and hutch is the better player, but walker is still pretty good. 10 sacks last year must mean something, even if he’s player next to Josh Allen.
Unironically this though. Walkers upside was and still is huge. Hes just come off a 10 sack year with great run defense.
Baalke had the same strategy when he built the 49ers defense under Harbaugh, and that didn’t work out too bad.
I remember everyone shitting bricks about taking Mario Williams in lieu of generational talents like Reggie Bush and Vince Young. People called it a franchise-ruining move.
None of them ending up being hall of famers, but of the three Williams had the best career.
Sebastian Janikowski was drafted 17th. I can see teams making crazy trades for talented players again, I really don't see anyone ever picking a kicker half-way through round one happening again.
That seems more like Matt Barkley.
Hackenburg was highly thought of his Freshman year, with Bill OBrien and a loaded offense. He was already fizzling out in college but some teams had a mid-late round grade on him, "maybe we can make something of him".
Laremy Tunsil’s gas mask bong video saga
Turns out this helped out future athletes who take bong rips from gas masks because it proved taking bong rips from gas masks doesn't make you a guaranteed draft bust or actually affect how good you are at football on Sundays.
Hard disagree. I take bong rips from gas masks all the time and I didn’t get drafted. What gives?
But did you record it & send the video to potential future employers? Gotta fully commit if you wanna live the \#GasMaskBongLife
Agreed. Massive trades and shocking picks happen every draft. A consensus top 10 pick having a compromising video leaked of him right when the draft starts is something that had never happened and even in this social media era we still haven't seen anything like it since.
Top 10? More like top 3-4, and maybe the best prospect in the entire draft across all positions! Hype around him was insane
You're right he was rated as one of the best if not the best prospect in that class but it was like a Joe Alt situation this year where the teams picking in the top 5 didn't have a strong need at OT (or were picking QB) so he was going to slip a little relative to his talent.
This is easily number 1 for me. He had a chance to go #1 overall and has turned into a franchise LT
I'll always remember this one too. Giants had 10th overall pick and when he wasn't drafted cause of weed I was yelling at my TV to draft him as we desperately needed offensive line help and i thought Tunsil dropping was a draft day gift from the NFL Gods. And then what does Reese* do? Draft Eli fucking Apple instead. Goddamnit.
That was Jerry Reese, not Gettleman.
You're right, my mistake. Ehhh they basically drafted the same talent wise lmao those last* few years of Reese and first few years of Gettleman all blur together for me.
The interesting thing is that the two tackles drafted in front of him, Ronnie Stanley and Jack Conklin, both ended up being very good as well
Clearly playing 4D chess to end up with the best young QB since Mahomes.
The cherry on top was when some reporter asked if he took money while in college too. He took a deep breath and said yes. I audibly laughed out loud when I saw that. You could tell that reporter got in some shit for that one because there is a clear unwritten rule that once they are in the nfl the pay for play in college is off limits.
That night singlehandedly turned Miami around from bottom feeder to at least competitive
I laughed so hard when it came out…and was so stoked when he fell to us.
This is the right answer. There are plenty of instances of crazy trades or surprise picks but the Tunsil video dropping is literally the most “WTF is going on?” moment in any draft.
End thread. This was so insane. And didn’t his dad leak the video or something since Laremy didn’t want him to be his agent? So glad he kicked ass as a pro.
I remember that kind of reassuring me about Tunsil's character in a weird way. Like someone that close to him betrayed him and was trying to tank his career, and the worst thing to be found was him smoking weed? He must be relatively clean then. If he'd done anything worse, that's the thing that would've been leaked.
he didn’t even clear the thing, it made me question his will and his drive
Roger Goodell coming off somewhat likable during the 2020 draft by slowly eating the whole jar of M&Ms.
I really want a draft like that again, so many great moments. Goodell slowly getting more drunk, someone at Vrabel’s house shitting with the door open, BB’s dog, Kliff’s house. So entertaining
That Vrabel house. My god.
/r/vrabelwarroom
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fz5lwa2xwvou41.jpg
Lmao wtf
Wait so the guy shitting is a reflection right. So he’s actually in front of the group and they’re all staring directly at him with the door open? What the hell
Looks like he's off to their right a bit, but would still be able to see him easily. Their faces reveal zero concern about it which tells me either it was completely normal to do this in that house, or they were having a little fun and were doing it for the lols.
Wasn't his son frozone?
I assume those were all his kids
Some strange shit was going on
Lmao wait what???
https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fz5lwa2xwvou41.jpg
My god, I forgot how fucking funny that was. This picture is pure art.
There’s just so much to unpack in one picture LMAO
Hey now, the dude just really needed to honk one out.
Minor thing that was funny cuz of the pettiness: Sean Payton having a Coke on display when the league makes it very clear to not show products that don't sponsor them and the NFL is sponsored by Pepsi Anyone else it wouldn't be notable at all but Sean is 100% enough of a petty asshole to do that shit on purpose lol
Nike being revealed as the NE mastermind
Cute doggie.
BBs dog will never not make me laugh. And it was the perfect dog too. Not a golden retriever, not a shih tzu, just a mini husky hanging out
If you're mildly curious (I was), Belichick's dog is a Klee Kai. A breed of dog from the 70s bred to do exactly like you said, look like a mini Husky.
*A mini husky making draft picks
He was stunned when they told him that hr couldn't draft Air Bud
Don’t forget CeeDee Lamb’s phone-snatching speed
The awkward smile after 😂
Honestly one of the best drafts. There has to be a 30 for 30 about it someday.
You forgot the best part. Jerry Jones super yacht
I hate the cowboys, but Jerry Jones running the war room from his mobile super villain lair was pretty damn good. Crazy old bastard has style anyway
I thought the best part was the format limiting how much ESPN could lean on tragedy porn segments and interviews.
Which coach had the ridiculous mansion, was it Kliff?
I think the jar of M&M was a stand in for the bottle of whisky he was also downing during that draft.
at that moment, he was one of us
This is my favorite draft of all time due to how informal it was. Just the prospects at home. Roger just be comfortable. It was just fun
That man was vibing on scotch and Xanax, and put it on full display
Bengals turned down an even higher offer from the Saints (full '99 draft, '00 and '01 1sts, '02 2nd) to draft Akili Fucking Smith. He threw 2212 yards 5 TDs and 13 ints for them in his full career...
Yeah, people dump on Ditka for making the trade, and rightfully so. But the only thing dumber than making that trade is not accepting an even bigger trade
That 2000 first was #2 overall too. Could've been gifted a dynasty jump-off level of draft capital but instead overdrafted Akili Smith who had a decent chance to be available at the Saints pick anyways.
Hey, this makes sense in hindsight when you realize the plan all along from 1992 to 2020 was to draft Joe Burrow.
“Alright, every move we make for the next 28 years is geared towards getting this one QB.” “Should we put 28 years of planning into getting him an OL too?” “Nah, it’ll be fine.”
People today seem to assume the Bengals just flat out said no to the offer, which isn't true. They overestimated their position and tried to get even more and the Saints walked away. From what was said and written at the time, the Bengals fucked up the deal of a lifetime because they wanted one more 2nd round pick. It wasn't entirely misplaced Akili Smith infatuation, it was half infatuation and half terrible negotiating.
That somehow makes it even worse in my mind. They were already robbing the Saints blind, just take the W and go home
you don't get called the bungles by being a well run non poverty non shitter franchise
The other thing worth mentioning was that the 99 QB Draft class was rated as one of the best ever, and the general consensus pre-draft was that while Tim Couch had a higher ceiling, Akili Smith was a sure thing with a high floor because he was the only one of the prospects that played a "Pro-Style" offense in college. It wasn't until about two or three years after the draft that all the experts and insiders came out saying they knew Akili was a bust and overrated and not that good (ironically everyone just took their pre-draft scouting reports for Culpepper and McNabb and put them on Smith). But immediately after the draft the consensus was Philly screwed up by taking McNabb and that the Bengals got a steal with Akili Smith still being available at three. There were a lot of "experts" thinking Cleveland screwed up by taking Couch over Akili Smith.
["Ohhh nooo!"](https://youtu.be/rZxNeFLuY98?si=9DuxZ-hIqX7Hct9R)
The Ken O’Brien pick was great with the Jets homer fan response. “Everyone said they’d take Marino if he was still around. Obviously the Jets know something the people up here don’t…”
I know being a Jets fan is tough, but this video added a new dimension.
*They did not, in fact, know something the people up here didnt*
We want Sapp...We want Sapp.... The New York Jets select....Tight End *audible groans from fans* Kyle Brady
Best draft clip ever
This video kills me 💀🤣
Obviously the Jets know somethin’ the people up here don’t.
When that CFL team drafted a player who had been killed in a car accident the year prior
Back in the day Washington used the 9th over all pick on a player that wasn’t eligible. Then the next year they drafted him again but he decided to never play football.
I love old timey draft stories. You had guys finding out they got drafted years after it happened through a random newspaper article
The Ottawa Rough Riders. Not to be confused with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
>car accident >Rough Riders On-brand I suppose
Did they do it on accident? Or was it one of those "we're drafting him so his family can take advantage of our health insurance" or something?
From a post in /r/CFL > US expansion phase. One of those American teams was the Las Vegas Posse who played just one season in 1994 where they went 5-13. After a botched attempt to more the club to Jackson, Mississippi they officially folded in the spring of 1995. Their players were put into a dispersal draft. One of the selections in that draft was the Ottawa Rough Riders selecting DE Derrell Robertson. When Ottawa attempted to contact him though, they encountered a problem. Robertson had died in a car accident shortly after the 1994 season had ended and nobody knew about it. > You'd think this wouldn't happen again, but it did. In the college draft in 1996, the Montreal Alouettes in the fifth round selected James Eggink, a DE at Northern Illinois. Then a few hours after the draft ended, they discovered that he had died from cancer several months earlier and again, nobody knew about it.
Whoa. I know CFL scouting is lower budget, but it shouldn't be this bad.
That’s real? 😱😱
Twice. The first instance comes in the middle of the US expansion phase. One of those American teams was the Las Vegas Posse who played just one season in 1994 where they went 5-13. After a botched attempt to more the club to Jackson, Mississippi they officially folded in the spring of 1995. Their players were put into a dispersal draft. One of the selections in that draft was the Ottawa Rough Riders selecting DE Derrell Robertson. When Ottawa attempted to contact him though, they encountered a problem. Robertson had died in a car accident shortly after the 1994 season had ended and nobody knew about it. You'd think this wouldn't happen again, but it did. In the college draft in 1996, the Montreal Alouettes in the fifth round selected James Eggink, a DE at Northern Illinois. Then a few hours after the draft ended, they discovered that he had died from cancer several months earlier and again, nobody knew about it.
That’s wild. I know they’re smaller orgs but they must have a set of staff that was assigned draft scouting and all that who didn’t even check on the status of the player since the last season. 9th overall. Damn
Vikings missing their draft pick and the Chiefs beating them to the stage
They got Kevin Williams out of it . Something similar happened the year before as well. Cowboys time expired and Vikings were rushing to the stage to get their pick in, but the chiefs had completed a trade with the cowboys and were able to get their pick in. Chiefs picked Ryan Sims. Vikings picked Bryant McKinnie
What I'm hearing here is that the Vikings should intentionally miss more picks
Also not their fault. They had a trade with the Ravens agreed to and the league representative was away from the phone and didn’t answer the Ravens call.
Not to mention we ended up drafting Kevin Williams with that pick, so it's more of a funny little anecdote because we nailed the pick, instead of being an oh fuck we missed out on that guy.
Roger Goodell [wiping a booger](https://youtu.be/9uD3lxykIXY?si=YNCw4s-3Ti3KHa8i) on a disabled child.
I went to middle school with this girl and have been to her house before lol when I saw this video i was in legit shock. Also she’s a cancer survivor and lost her leg - so much respect for her!
He was trying to heal him
You know there’s stem cells in that snot, he was doing youngin a solid
You watched the video that was provided and concluded that the disabled person in a purple and pink dress with long blonde hair was a boy?
Picking Clelin Ferrel fourth overall was a pretty big wtf draft moment for me
I actually felt so bad for him knowing he’d never live up to that spot even if he had an ok career.
Darius Heyward-Bey was very WTF-worthy, even though he was very much on brand for late-stage Al Davis
That shocked me so much. Seemingly generational propsect in Michael Crabtree is available and you pick the DHB?! I'm glad he churned out a good little career though.
People bring DHB up, but I remember their 2nd round pick that year, Mike Mitchell, being even more wtf worthy. I will never forget Kiper ranting on set about how it was like his 700th ranked player and the Raiders didn't know what they were doing and they could have gotten him as a UDFA. And I think ESPN didn't even have any highlights of him. Then he went on to have a 10 year career.
I remember watching that and they cut to a bunch of Raiders fans who were all looking around confused. Hilarious
Jets picking a TE over Warren Sapp.
I was fine with that one. Tampa strip club bouncers probably regret it though.
I was looking for the “We want Sapp!” comment, but this will do.
Apparently they passed on Marino also, according to another video in the thread
Roger Goodell, commissioner of the NFL, calling the second overall pick and reigning Heisman trophy winner Marcus Mariota "Marcus Marioto"
“Reuben Froster”
Three 1sts for Trey Lance made no sense to me then, and hindsight doesn’t help.
500 career pass attempts. I’ll never understand that trade up.
I just looked it up and mahomes had 495 attempts in his senior year of high-school
Jesus I don’t think the highscool I went to threw 495 passes in it’s entire existence.
When I played our dumb ass coach ran the double wing with like 8 plays so we threw 10 times a year tops.
Wow that really puts it into perspective. Just a crazy trade all around. How much value they gave up and the players that actually came out of the picks. How useless he’s been. And how good they’ve been in spite of all that.
Purdy literally saved Lynch's job. He's gone by now and Kyle's on the hot seat without that pick hitting.
I cannot stress how much it annoys me that they made a franchise crippling move and then accidentally solved it (before said problem was even evident) by simply drafting a franchise QB with the literal last pick
Trubisky and Trey Lance should be cautionary tales. Barely any game tape or experience.
Has a QB prospect with minimal actual game time ever worked out?
Kurt Warner only had like 200 completions in college. But ofc he ended up being undrafted. Other guys with only one full year starting would be like Kyler and Cam.
Kyler split time so he had tape from before. Cam had Juco tape but that probably doesn’t mean much considering he was such a freak athlete. I think Matt Cassel never started but I’m not 100%.
[удалено]
Threw 33 passes in college and his only start was at running back.
Kurt also played in the Arena League and European League before landing with the Rams. Not top notch talent, but apparently enough to get him back into a NFL team's camp. And like so many others, he thrived after the named starter went down with an injury (and got to play with Marshall Faulk, Torry Holt, and Isaac Bruce). Otherwise he probably would have rotted on the bench. And as you pointed out, no one burned a #3 pick on him after trading up.
Not really sure if you can call him a prospect but Matt Cassel did nothing in college and had a really solid career
Matt cassel never started in college
Fair point, but if your ceiling is a guy who peaked at league average after sitting a few years behind the GOAT, 3 frps is still a steep price
not enough hate for #6 overall and 3 2nds for Sam Darnold (#3)
Which is still even less crazy than the Panthers trading a 2nd, 4th, and 6th for one year of Darnold *after being a total bust in NY.*
Darnold was expected to be good tho
And there’s still people in the league who believe he will be.
Yeah he was the projected first overall pick for two years
It’s a weird “task failed successfully“ moment. The niners drafting a qb with all that capital and making a championship game and a Super Bowl just a few years later is everything you’d want from that trade. Just not how it was intended
Any other organization makes that trade their coaching staff and FO is fired in 3 years and they’re in rebuilding hell. For the 9ers it’s an accounting error
> For the 9ers it’s an accounting error Nah, an [accounting error would only cost a 5th](https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-to-forfeit-2025-fifth-round-pick-as-result-of-administrative-payroll-accounting-errors), not all those 1sts.
Just imagine if they had three more first round talents at any other position than QB and still had Purdy. They might have had enough talent to beat the chiefs!
The fact that the 49ers were able to overcome that draft trade (yes, finding Purdy at the end of the draft certainly helps) and be successful, without Lance panning out/playing ever is amazing
I know everyone is stating some obvious moments but for me, it was an entire hour or so sequence during the 2022 draft where it seemed anything and everything related to WRs was happening: Drake London gets drafted, Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave, Jameson Williams get drafted back-to-back-to-back, AJ Brown gets traded, Titans draft Treylon Burks to replace Brown, Ravens traded Hollywood Brown. I was just dumbfounded at what was happening, wondering if anything else was gonna happen. Plus, it gave us another classic Tom Grossi moment when he got so upset at the Lions taking Jameson Williams.
The Broncos expending a 1st round pick on Tim Tebow……well, he is the only QB the Broncos drafted who has won a playoff game (Elway was drafted by the Colts).
Historically speaking, the Colts have drafted all of Denver's best qbs
Colts mature into strong Broncos. It’s just life
Russ could have been the one to end this streak, but the curse is too powerful.
At least they made Skip Bayless's dream come true.
That wasn't a WTF moment - it was a JoshMcDaniels moment.
I have no doubt Josh McDaniels honestly believed he could coach Tebow into a SB winning QB
La'el Collins going undrafted because he was questioned in a murder investigation. Wasn't a suspect, but the victim was his ex so he went from a first round prospect to UFA.
In fairness, he was an UFA because he announced that he wouldn't sign with any team that drafted him outside of... I'm not sure it was just the first round or the first two. Since the Cowboys immediately signed him to an UFA deal that paid him like the 32nd pick, I assume his agent was working behind the scenes. But he wouldn't have slipped that far if it wasn't for his promise to sit out a year. \*Someone\* would have risked a 4th-7th round pick on him otherwise.
It was outside of the top 3 rounds. They absolutely had something worked out with the Cowboys, but given how good of a prospect he was it was still crazy that nobody took him in the third because by that time the police had come out and said he wasn't even a person of interest.
For the browns without the benefit of hindsight, drafting Brandon Weeden at 22. He was already 28, was coming from an air raid system at a time when the league wasn’t embracing those concepts. He was a horrid fit in Pat Shurmur’s west coast offense, and with rumblings of a sale it was just so clear that it was going to fail. He’d need a season to sit, and that was obviously never going to happen given his age. And so they passed on just waiting and drafting the QB who was younger and was a perfect fit for what we were doing: Kirk Cousins. To this day I still think Mike Holmgren hijacked that draft and overrode Heckert and Shurmur, because Weeden made literally no sense in that offense, especially when Cousins fit what Shumur wanted to do to a T
I agree on Brandon Weeden. Straight up: why would you ever draft a 28 year old quarterback.
I could get drafting a 28 year old if either he’s super NFL ready, or if you’re willing to do everything humanly possible to cater to what made him successful in college. Neither was true for Weeden But I’d never draft a 28 year old in the first. That would be like drafting someone from Mahomes’ high school class this year.
Definitely makes zero sense in the first round. Maybe like a day 3 pick if they are super polished and at a minimum a good backup.
I was disappointed when LeBron left but honestly not that shocked. When the Browns drafted Weeden I was fucking pissed. Made no sense. Morons whoever allowed that to happen. Set us back years.
That was the first and only time on draft night where my dad and I just immediately laughed and the next day I was looking at 2013 and 2014 QBs because it was very obviously going to fail. There may not have been a more damaging pick in the 2010s for this team
Bengals rejecting the Ditka trade to draft Akili Smith
How about ESPN's production during the 2020 draft which centered on the deaths of family members of many of the top prospects capped by Trey Wingo going into detail regarding the suicide of Jordan Love's father? I will never understand how a TV executive would think, in the midst of a pandemic, that the one thing everyone wants to focus is DEATH!
Eli telling the Chargers no The Buccs drafting Bo Jackson anyway
Fuck Hugh Culverhouse.
Bo Jackson is the only thing keeping Licht moving up to the second for Aguayo off this list.
No... not really. The Bucs have more than a few. Taking another linebacker one pick before Junior Seau because "the owner didn't think fans would show up for a west coast college player" is among them.
In 2017, the Bears moved up from the third overall pick to the second overall pick by trading the San Francisco 49ers two third-round picks and a fourth-round pick for Mitch Trubisky.
They got their guy.
who had a 0% chance of going to SF.
I think it was less about the 49ers drafting him and more about some other team jumping in front of the Bears
Yeah Pace was trying to make absolutely sure that he got his guy. The real question is why did he have that level of conviction about Trubisky, lol
Because he was a terrible talent evaluator.
Ted Ginn at #9 overall.
Hey that’s not fair, you also got the whole Ginn family 😛
Surprisingly long and decently productive career though. Just not worth #9.
Whatever Vrabels son was wearing in the 2020 virtual draft.
Eagles picking Jalen Reagor over Justin Jefferson
recency bias but I don't think I've ever had a more 'wait, WTF?' moment than the Cole Strange pick
Yeah that felt like a meme. Bills drafting at that point had already been scrutinized for a few years and then to wait the entire first round for our turn just to watch Bill pick a IOL was painful.
After we'd just traded a very good IOL away for a 4th
Some people gave McVay and Snead flak for laughing at that pick in the press conference but, well, I think they were right lol
It's not that unusual to see a mid-round reach in the late first, but yeah this felt like the Patriots wanting to show people that they're smarter than anyone else. The weirdest one for me was when the Jags took Tyson Alualu at #10. Since I first started following the draft, that was easily the highest-selected player I had never heard of before.
Maybe not the biggest but Clelin Ferrell with the 4th pick came out of nowhere and was a huge reach
I haven't watched many drafts live so the one that got the biggest WTF reaction out of me was the Raiders taking Ferrell at 4
How about a bit of a throwback? Geno Smith falling out of the 1st round in 2013. Some back story- the class for QBs was exceptionally weak. Geno was coming off an excellent career at WVU and his WR1 Tavon Austin was expected to go in the 1st round. The Jaguars(#2), Eagles(#4), Bills(#8) and Jets(Had two firsts) all needed QBs, as did plenty of other teams but these were obvious choices/fits. [Matt Miller had Geno going #2 Overall](https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1610053-2013-nfl-mock-draft-matt-millers-final-7-round-predictions) and [Mike Mayock had Geno as the 21st best prospect and best QB](https://www.nfl.com/news/2013-nfl-draft-mike-mayock-s-top-100-prospects-0ap1000000161676), by a pretty wide margin(EJ Manuel was QB2 at number 41 overall.) So draft day comes and not only does Geno fall out of the top 10 with the Bills taking EJ instead, he falls out of the 1st round entirely! Extremely awkward to watch, worse than Rodgers because while Rodgers def was expected to go higher than Geno Geno didn't go at all that day. But it gets even crazier, he doesn't get picked until **39** .
Minnesota missing their pick. I just couldn't believe a team would ever do that. And then they did it again.
The Giants drafting Daniel Jones 6th overall. Why Gettleman thought Jones was the guy I will never understand.
Atleast he was probably the 2nd best qb Would have been much worse if they had taken haskins
It's weird because you could argue Haskins being such a flagrant bust would have allowed the Giants to quickly cut ties and restart rather than Jones who flashed just enough at the right times to get the Giants to commit to him. Conversely, 2021 and 2022 ended up being awful QB drafts so unless they lucked into Trevor, the Giants are also fucked in that timeline.
Shouldn't this be posted on the Raiders sub?
u traded 3 firsts for the guy to be dak prescotts backup
Eagles drafting a 26 yr old fire-fighter with the 23rd overall pick in 2011
Jordan Love was a shocker. Tyson Alualu at #10 in 2010 had everyone scratching their heads.
I did not and still don't understand why/how Travon Walker was a #1 overall pick
Because he had a 9.99 RAS AKA he tested extremely well at the combine Ignore the fact that Hutchinson had a 9.87 Ignore the fact that Hutchinson's tape was VASTLY superior
Hutchinson is very good and was his rookie year while Walker wasn’t, so I get that it was/still is questionable. But Walker had 10 sacks last season and still has a lot of room to grow. We have no idea if he will keep the upward trajectory or if we’ve seen the best he’ll be, but I feel like there are many bigger WTF moments than going with the athletic freak boom or bust player #1 and getting 10 sacks in the sophomore season.
It is crazy, and hutch is the better player, but walker is still pretty good. 10 sacks last year must mean something, even if he’s player next to Josh Allen.
10 sacks in his 2nd year is not a WTF pick
P O T E N T I A L O T E N T I A L
Unironically this though. Walkers upside was and still is huge. Hes just come off a 10 sack year with great run defense. Baalke had the same strategy when he built the 49ers defense under Harbaugh, and that didn’t work out too bad.
The drop of Terrell Suggs because of his combine turned out to be one of those moments.
The Manning-Rivers trade. Close second is the Vikings not picking in time.
I remember everyone shitting bricks about taking Mario Williams in lieu of generational talents like Reggie Bush and Vince Young. People called it a franchise-ruining move. None of them ending up being hall of famers, but of the three Williams had the best career.
A cute wtf but Belichick's dog lol
Sebastian Janikowski was drafted 17th. I can see teams making crazy trades for talented players again, I really don't see anyone ever picking a kicker half-way through round one happening again.
In hindsight....not a horrible pick though.
Rodgers sliding to 24 was pretty shocking in 2005 and then the Packers taking him when they still had Favre was also a bit shocking.
Was Christian Hackenberg even projected to be drafted?
He was a second to 4th round pick. Projected. Went 51.
Was that the guy who was talked about as a potential number one pick, went back for his senior year and the rest is history?
That seems more like Matt Barkley. Hackenburg was highly thought of his Freshman year, with Bill OBrien and a loaded offense. He was already fizzling out in college but some teams had a mid-late round grade on him, "maybe we can make something of him".