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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/StatementWild3768 on 2025-07-26 14:47:29+00:00.
Last week, I asked this sub to discuss cases where a player went from being a great contributor to his team’s success (hero) to randomly forgetting how to play the game and inadvertently screwing his team in some way, shape, or form (zero). The discussion as a whole went very, very well, so I decided that I’d like it to continue conversely.
Funny enough, David Tyree was a popular example for the “Hero to Zero” trope due to being the catalyst behind the Helmet Catch (ouch) then never catching another ball in the NFL again, and ironically, he can fit “Zero to Hero” too, as he apparently did close to nothing throughout the regular season and reportedly was BAD at practice leading up to SB 42 (ouch again).
Please note, my only criteria is to stick to in-game performances only (e.g. Limas Sweed dropping the easiest TD pass ever and faking an injury to issuing a BRUTAL crack-back block in the 2008 AFC championship game), nothing relating to off the field unless it’s absolutely necessary.
So, what other examples are there of a player who apparently didn’t know how to play football and was a MASSIVE liability to his team, only to turn it around at the right time and randomly become integral to his team winning?