The Rams worst draft pick

[dieterbrock]

It was Safety. He didn’t last long before calling it quits

He was drafted as a WR got hit really hard and said nah...
He made a “comeback” attempt in the arena league or something as a safety

 

[fearsomefour]

C'mon, RamFan503 and I are Quacker Backers (Oregon Ducks)....ya gotta love Rich Brooks and his 94' Rose Bowl appearance!

I'm not and I shan't. I say it again, I shan't.

 

[den-the-coach]

Lawrence Phillips & Eddie Kennison because you could of had Eddie George & Marvin Harrison.

 

[ReekofRams]

Has to be Lawrence Phillips. The guy had numerous off the field issues, but we took him anyway. He not only didn't produce for us, but he had more off the field issues, culminating in running over three kids for no reason.

I can't think of a worse draft pick than Phillips.

Can’t get any worse than drafting a murderer.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

Mike Schad
Game over

I hated that pick. That was a Georgia pick. She figured if you get a nobody from a small school you won't have to pay as much as a big name.

He did have a decent career, in Philly, but it was still a bad pick.

When we traded up for Austin I truly almost destroyed my tv. three my empty mug again the wall inches from the tv. You don't trade up for a tiny gadget player at best. So painful

They could have stayed put and drafted Hopkins. That would have helped more.

He was so bad they gave him a $40m extension.

Did he deserve it? No, they should have seen how he went and let him play through his 5th year option. But he was so dangerous the year before they probably felt it was the cheaper option in the long term. However he fell off a cliff after he got the big money deal. That's on him, he didn't try to become great player. Even mcvay couldn't get anything out of him anymore apart from the jet sweep. He wouldn't even pass the ball to him.

You really have to know the player before you give him a big contract. If they don't live and breathe football then you're better off trading them or letting them walk before handing over big money.

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That extension was a head scratcher. It's the pivotal jump for the Rams that makes me hate the pick. They needed a real weapon and Hopkins would have been perfect. Finally the Rams would have had a dominant receiver, instead they had a player that they had to create space for to be effective.

But I'm biased because I wanted Hopkins and absolutely didn't want Tavon. There was no way he would run rough shod over the NFL like he did college defenses. It was a fantasy.

It's like passing on Wagner. Wagner could have been so good for this defense. Instead they took Pead.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

Some years the draft just sucked for everyone. There wasn't the talent available. I don't count them so much I guess.


With the GRoh pick, I still don't fault them as much. They needed an OT badly. I wanted Matthews, but physically GRoh was much more the specimen. Turns out the best OT went to Tennessee. I didn't want him though because of character concerns. It seems there should have been red flags with GRoh too; desire being one of them.

 

[Elmgrovegnome]

Here's a pick I hated. Jimmy Kennedy. I'd have to look back to see who they could have had but after watching him for a few years at PSU, I wondered how anyone could consider him worthy of round one.

 

[PhillyRam]

Tavon was a good player for the team his entire tenure. Whether it be on STs, running game, or gadget plays, he produced.

Did everyone forget about the 2006 and 2007 drafts????

Those two drafts took a mediocre 7-8 win team to a 1 or 2 win team and the worst roster in football.

 

[Antonius]

The obvious names have been mentioned. A name I don’t see listed with other Rams draft failures is Adam Carriker. That dude did absolutely nothing. And freaking Darrelle Revis was actually taken next right after him.

Tavon contributed. Not enough to warrant his draft spot, but he got in the end zone a lot. Guys like Adam & Greg Robinson were high level picks that did nothing.

 

[tempests]

Problem with this stroll down memory lane is you never run out of candidates. Robert Thomas to replace London Fletcher in 2002. Claude Wroten(2006) three failed drug tests in two years. Claude Terrell(2005) beat up his wife and raped another woman at gunpoint. Anthony Hargrove(2004) went missing on us for two days in the middle of a season. Turned out to have been snorting coke in his basement.

 

[Vapor]

Mike Schad
Game over

I remember this one, watching the draft everyone was saying who?
Then there was the DE drafted that coach John R, moved to fullback too. Cant remember his name.

 

[fearsomefour]

Can’t get any worse than drafting a murderer.

OJ disagrees.

 

[fearsomefour]

Lawrence Phillips & Eddie Kennison because you could of had Eddie George & Marvin Harrison.

Vomit.
This was the dummy Rich Brooks trying replicate what the Cowboys had with their "big 3".
Tony Banks, Phillips and Kennison.
Brooks wanted to move Bettis to FB and traded him to make room for Phillips. That is a highlighted chapter in the book "How to ruin a franchise". The stupidy of that move boggles the mind.
F Rich Brooks.
Him and his dumb trick plays with throw backs to Todd Kinchen on kick returns. An offensive mastermind who couldn't coach offense.
Where ever he is I hope Rich Brooks has a dog that doesn't like him, is afflicted with constant gas and stubs his toe in the middle of the night.

 

[kurtfaulk]

The obvious names have been mentioned. A name I don’t see listed with other Rams draft failures is Adam Carriker. That dude did absolutely nothing. And freaking Darrelle Revis was actually taken next right after him.

Tavon contributed. Not enough to warrant his draft spot, but he got in the end zone a lot. Guys like Adam & Greg Robinson were high level picks that did nothing.

Carriker was doubling down on the awful ty hill pick. Instead of a shrimp cb the rams should have taken ngata, who seemed like a perfect fit for them. Then because of that horrible pick they needed a dt the next season instead of cb. So they went carriker, who wasn't even a scheme fit.

What a disaster of two draft classes by the "gm". The rams were so awful back then.

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[snackdaddy]

Eric Crouch to me.
Take a running QB to convert to S.
Dude shows up to the first day of camp in a limo then retires shortly there after.
Hidden Safety, Crouching Dbag.
Martz firmly on the Mad Mike train with the logic behind this pick.

Crouch was definitely a bad pick. But he was drafted 95th overall. I gotta think someone drafted really high would be on the list of worst picks. Like Phillips, Brown and Robinson. Those ended up terrible picks.

 

[TSFH Fan]

I remember this one, watching the draft everyone was saying who?
Then there was the DE drafted that coach John R, moved to fullback too. Cant remember his name.

Donald Evans

 

[nighttrain]

Thanks for reminding me how many early picks the Rams wasted in years past. Maybe it is a good thing that recently they have been trading early picks for established quality players; ie Cooks & Peters.

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lookimg at the resuls of past drafts prior to McVay, its amazing we ever won a game
train

 

[dieterbrock]

Apparently Mardy Gilyard is still trying to learn the playbook...,

 

[FrantikRam]

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This.

Because he was the highest or 2nd highest paid rookie in NFL history - and was a bust. Even when healthy he wasn't worth the pick, especially true in hindsight