NFL Draft successes and busts 10-year evaluation: 7th overall bust

by Dan Kadar on Apr 13, 2011 9:27 PM EDT

Over the next few weeks, we'll evaluate the best and worst top 10 picks in a 10-year span from 1999-2008. We capped this at 2008 because it's unfair to judge first- or second-year players. Today, the pick seven bust.

Pick: Seven overall
The player: Troy Williamson | Wide receiver | Minnesota Vikings (2005)

How bad was Troy Williamson for the Vikings? The team traded him after just two seasons to Jacksonville for a sixth-round pick. He did just as little there as he did in Minnesota.

Williamson was a one-trick wide receiver. If it wasn't a vertical route, he couldn't run it. Even when he did, he didn't have the hands to always make a catch. For his career, Williamson has 87 receptions for 1,131 yards and four touchdowns. That's a solid season, but an awful five-year career.

There is one positive for Williamson, though. If this series is rejoined in a year, he'll probably be replaced by the Raiders' Darrius Heyward-Bey.

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I doubt the Raiders give up on Heyward-Bey after next season.

Just saying.

The player I would like least at #9 would be my sister’s cat, Captain Creamsicle. She does have a great work ethic and agility, but I’m really concerned that at 9 lbs., she’s too small to play safety in the NFL. She also bites way too often on play action and is easily distracted by someone waving string in the crowd. Lastly, her wonderlic score was pretty awful, answering "meow meow meow" for most of the questions- Dr. Brackish Okun

by mob16151 on Apr 13, 2011 9:51 PM EDT reply actions