Your NFL team's Worst. Draft. Ever.

Here is one doozy of a failure my favorite team produced in 1998:

With 12 picks, this is what the Jets did.

¶ 2-56 Dorian Boose DE Washington State
¶ 3-67 Scott Frost ¶ DB ¶ Nebraska
¶ 3-87 Kevin Williams ¶ FS ¶ Oklahoma State
¶ 4-111 Jason Fabini ¶ T ¶ Cincinnati
¶ 5-134 Casey Dailey ¶ LB ¶ Northwestern
¶ 5-141 Doug Karczewski ¶ G ¶ Virginia
¶ 5-146 Blake Spence ¶ TE ¶ Oregon
¶ 5-149 Eric Bateman ¶ -- ¶ Brigham Young
¶ 6-163 Eric Ogbogu ¶ DE ¶ Maryland
¶ 6-174 Chris Brazzell ¶ WR ¶ Angelo State
¶ 6-183 Dustin Johnson ¶ RB ¶ Brigham Young
¶ 7-195 Lawrence Hart ¶ TE ¶ Southern University


Beat that!!

 

Seriously, I never heard of any of those guys. Dang.

 

I've heard of Scott Frost (who was a quarterback at Nebraska IIRC), Jason Fabini and Eric Ogbogu (the latter one for obvious reasons). That's it.

 

Fabini was a solid starter for a long time. Maybe even better than that at his best. But the rest is just a massive pile of dreck. I think Ogbogu hung around for a couple years.

I'll never forget Parcells being asked about Frost, the Nebraska option QB, and where he might play and Parcells saying, 'He's a football player.'
Or not.

The following year the Jets also came up with another awful draft, though it did produce G Randy Thomas, who turned out to be a fine player for Washington.

 

Ralph Russo in the house!

(That's all I got.)

 

The Chicago Bears' 1997 draft. This includes trading their No. 1 pick for Rick Fucking Mirer.

2 38 John Allred TE
3 69 Bob Sapp G
4 105 Darnell Autry RB
4 108 Marcus Robinson WR
5 141 Van Hiles DB
6 196 Shawn Swayda DE
6 200 Richard Hogans LB
6 201 Ricky Parker DB
7 210 Mike Miano DT
7 233 Marvin Thomas DE

 

That could be one of the worst draft portfolios ever. I think half those guys were out of the league within two years.

On a side note, when the Bears cut Autry, the Pantagraph referred to him as a "former Heisman winner" in the headline. I think they confused him for Rashaan Salaam (another bust).

 

That's a strong contender. Jets got Curtis Martin for their first and third that season, so that goes a long way toward salvaging that disaster.

Mirer on the other hand, yikes!!

Marcus Robinson became pretty good, but for some problems with the law, right?

 

Robinson was a steal in the 4th round. I don't recall legal problems, only injuries. Also, Jim Miller got caught roiding and was suspended for four games, so the offense took a hit.

 

Robinson had a single 1,400 yard season, in 1999, then about 1,400 yards combined over the next four years.

He re-emerged in Minnesota as a decent third-receiver/deep threat.

Still, if a guy with less than 5,000 receiving yards, 40 percent of which came with different teams than the Bears, is the best player ...

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/R/RobiMa00.htm

 

1 10 Ray Roberts OL Virginia
3 66 Bob Spitulski LB Central Florida
5 122 Gary Dandridge DB Appalachian State
6 150 Michael Bates RB Arizona
7 178 Mike Frier DL Appalachian State
8 207 Muhammad Shamsid-Deen Tennessee-Chattanooga
9 234 Larry Stayner TE Boise State
10 263 Anthony Hamlet DL Miami (Fla.)
11 290 Kris Rongen Washington
12 319 Chico Fraley Washington
12 320 John MacNeill Michigan State

A critical draft for a team with a talent problem and they shit their pants, as usual.

The failure in this draft immediately led to record-setting futility on the offensive side of the ball.

 

What team was that?