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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/ClarkDoubleUGriswold on 2024-03-25 11:14:58.

The recent post about reaches in the draft had me thinking. What were some whiffs you had before the draft? Players you thought would be amazing but turned out awful or players you thought were trash who wildly exceeded your expectations?

I can think of three easily off the top of my head and I think of myself usually as an above average football fan (probably wrong on this too):

  1. Blake Bortles. I thought Dave Caldwell knew better than everybody else and thought Bortles could be the next Roethlisberger. When he had 35 TDs in 2015, I thought I was vindicated.

  2. Paxton Lynch. He was a third down monster at Memphis. He really was a system guy and obviously shit the bed in the NFL. Notably, Lynch’s performance at Memphis helped Fuente get the head coaching job at my beloved Virginia Tech and he was fairly bad there.

  3. Totally random but Danny Shelton to the Browns. I thought this was a steal by the Browns at the time and I thought Shelton would be the next Haloti Ngata type D lineman who would dominate. He had a great career if he would’ve been a 4th or 5th round pick…