Who would be your top overall "can't miss" guy coming out for the draft ever?
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Gotta love sarcasm
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Otto Graham drafted 4th overall by the lions
NFL Career Totals:
• Played in 126 games for the Cleveland Browns
• Threw 2,626 passes, completing 1,464 for 23,584 yards and 174 touchdowns
• Ran the ball 405 times for 882 yards and 44 touchdowns
• Finished with a 105-17-4 regular-season record
NFL Highlights:
• Led the Browns to 10 division or league titles in 10 years
• Led AAFC in passing four times
• Led NFL in passing two times
• Named All-AAFC four times 1946 (UPI, OA), 1947 (NY, OA), 1948 (UPI, OA), 1949 (UPI, NY, OA)
• Named All-NFL five times 1951 (AP, UPI, NY), 1952 (UPI, NY), 1953 (AP, UPI, NY) , 1954 (AP, UPI, SN, NY) , 1955 (AP, UPI, SN, NY)
• Named NFL All-Pro four times 1947 (AP), 1948 (AP), 1949 (AP, IN)
• Played in five Pro Bowls 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955
• Named NFL MVP twice
• Won four straight AAFC titles
• Named to the all-NFL 75th anniversary team.
• Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965
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Tom Brady, 6th rounder
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There are quite a few but one that sticks out in my mind is Dan Marino taken by MIA. I know he feel in the draft cuz of his drug use but the gamble worked in my mind. He helped the dolphins have a lot of success. Granted he never won a Super Bowl but the Dolphins have struggled to find a QB with consistent success like him.
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Maybe the safest draft pick that I can remember is Orlando Pace, in college he routinely blocked three people on a single play. And when he played against the best he dominated like he was playing against high school kids.
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Without a doubt, JIM BROWN!!!
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BARRY MOTHER FN SANDERS. HE WOULD HAVE BEEN THE BEST RUNNING BACK IN ANY ERA HE WOULD HAVE LIVED. JIM BROWN WAS STRONGER BUT BARRY HAD THE SICKNESS CALLED ELUSIVENESS AND SPEED COMBO.
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Lum I will answer for you DA!
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Jim Brown
now if we are just talking who in the draft did we know would be a can't miss, maybe not the best player in the NFL, Chris Speilman, course that was from watching him play high school football, (in person) and collage, hell even some pick up games here and there.
I knew he was going to the NFL and I knew he would be successful.
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@inspecta said:
I'm not really understanding the question, it sorta reads like who is the best ever, which we can debate endlesslyIs this like who was the best late round grab?
The best player that lived up to their draft spot?
i interpreted the question as the best value pick. But after rereading it, i'm not sure.
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Im young and so far the most can't miss prospect so far has been Calvin Johnson IMO
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@inspecta said:
I'm not really understanding the question, it sorta reads like who is the best ever, which we can debate endlesslyIs this like who was the best late round grab?
The best player that lived up to their draft spot?
I'm sorry I couldn't quite get my point across clear enough... Who in your mind would be the safest pick no matter what because that player's talent was so immense that no team could go wrong picking that player and that players contribution to the team helped immensely.
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@inspecta said:
I'm not really understanding the question, it sorta reads like who is the best ever, which we can debate endlesslyIs this like who was the best late round grab?
The best player that lived up to their draft spot?
I'm sorry I couldn't quite get my point across clear enough... Who in your mind would be the safest pick no matter what because that player's talent was so immense that no team could go wrong picking that player and that players contribution to the team helped immensely.
no team could go wrong picking that player and that players contribution to the team helped immensely.
Earl Campbell
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I am going to throw a monkey wrench into this. Ernie Davis was one of the safest draft picks ever and look what happened.
Campbell and Brown were great picks. Campbell was as good as anyone in history for a few seasons.
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You need to ask a better question. Asking the best can't miss player "coming" out of the draft, -retroactively- is silly,
it logically ends up being the most successful, like Jim Brown, Joe Mantana. And there are reasons for a player's success or
not depending on the surrounding cast, systems, coaches...
"Coming" directly refers to the present. "Whoever came out of the draft" would be more precise.
But, to play along, I'd say Paul Warfield. Wait, he was very successful.. oh, never mind. Warfield was a Lynn Swann before there was a Swann.
Currently, the "can't miss" in THIS DRAFT would be Curry, LB, and Smith, OL.
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