Manziel, Richardson, Tebow: Top 10 biggest busts in NFL draft history

Much like everything in life, nothing is certain. And despite coming out of college with a pretty stellar reputation and looking as if you might have a promising NFL career, sometimes that just isn’t the case.

The 2022 NFL Draft will this year take place in Las Vegas, so it’s pretty fitting that there will be a lot of teams who will be gambling their future on the players that they draft for their franchises.

Hopefully they’ll be bringing in winners rather than ending up with players like these, whose NFL careers never lived up to the expectation that followed them on draft night. 

Drafted at 10 by the Arizona Cardinals in 2018

This one might seem a little harsh considering he is still in the league where he might have a career renaissance.

But when you consider how high he was drafted, combined with his now infamous quote that there were ‘nine mistakes’ made ahead of him, his status as a backup in the league that has bounced around a few teams doesn’t portray him as someone who was worth the Cardinals trading up for to begin with.

Drafted at 26 by the Denver Broncos in 2016

Being brought in to replace the departing Peyton Manning, Lynch’s numbers in college showed some promise, racking up 8,863 yards and 59 touchdowns, his career in the NFL was over pretty much before it began.

He failed to beat out Trevor Siemian and was never able to establish himself as the main man with the Denver Broncos. Having failed there, he has moved to Pittsburgh and Seattle, but hasn’t played a game since 2017, he now plies his trade with the Michigan Panthers in the USFL.  

Drafted at 2 by the Washington Redskins in 2012

The second quarterback taken behind Andrew Luck in 2012, RG3 came out of Baylor as a transformative player, someone