G. Host
10-29-2006, 09:35 AM
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/don_banks/10/26/bad.draft/index.html
And there's more tales of woe. Plenty more. No. 4 pick Mike Williams, the supposedly immovable object/offensive tackle from the University of Texas, was finally given up on by Buffalo after four years. He signed with Jacksonville after being given his release but went on injured reserve with a bad back during the preseason and will not play in 2006
"But with a kid like Sims, you think he loves football, but you can't measure somebody's heart before the draft. Same with Mike Williams. You just don't know how much some of these guys want to play.
But only one fourth of the players taken in that first round (eight of 32) have made the Pro Bowl in the past four years, with only four making multiple trips to Hawaii. And the high-profile flameouts of Harrington and Mike Williams serve as well-chronicled reminders of 2002's niche in the Draft Bust Hall of Fame.
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And there's more tales of woe. Plenty more. No. 4 pick Mike Williams, the supposedly immovable object/offensive tackle from the University of Texas, was finally given up on by Buffalo after four years. He signed with Jacksonville after being given his release but went on injured reserve with a bad back during the preseason and will not play in 2006
"But with a kid like Sims, you think he loves football, but you can't measure somebody's heart before the draft. Same with Mike Williams. You just don't know how much some of these guys want to play.
But only one fourth of the players taken in that first round (eight of 32) have made the Pro Bowl in the past four years, with only four making multiple trips to Hawaii. And the high-profile flameouts of Harrington and Mike Williams serve as well-chronicled reminders of 2002's niche in the Draft Bust Hall of Fame.
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