(S22) - PT3 - Boom or Bust

[Daybe]

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The story of Bobby Ruckus starts off like a textbook success story. Drafted by Portland in Season 5, he put in alot of work on the defensive side of the ball. His stats in Season 5 are as followed; 55 Tackles, 2 Sacks, 2 Interceptions, and 3 Pass Deflected. Sounds like a player that has a great place to start, and eventually grow into exponential success. The Colorado Yeti saw this, and picked him up in the higher rounds. Even if you are in a small draft class, such as 50-70 players, you are still considered to have drafted high if you go in Round One, High Round Two, which Ruckus indeed did, going Tenth Overall in the Season 6 NSFL Draft. In rebuild mode, the Yeti had just came off a 2-12 season, and really needed these rookies to do their damnest and put in the work needed to not...well...suck. Ruckus was one of these rookies. Even with the future in front of him, it was himself that took him down. He went inactive. Never coming back to a player with a bright future. What a shame that all it takes is for a person to just walk away and boom. You're a bust.

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[dahayn]

My proposal for the biggest bust I could find in five minutes of searching was Ryan Lefevre drafted by the Colorado Yeti in the season seven National Simulation Football League draft. He was picked up with the fifth overall pick as a linebacker out of Texas Christian University. I say he is a bust because first of all, he was the first linebacker drafted that year and he stopped all training after he got drafted. He didn't earn a single TPE. The second reason I claim he's the biggest bust is because future Hall of Fame linebacker Mason Brown was still available to be picked. Mason Brown went on to achieve many accomplishments and accolades in the years following this draft. Brown was a part of the Ultimini winning team the Portland Pythons in 2022. He was the defensive player of the game in that Ultimini win. The first year he played in the NSFL for the Orange County Otters, he won the Defensive Rookie of the Year. That same year Mason Brown was also selected to the 2023 pro-bowl. The next year in 2024, Mason Brown was selected as linebacker of the year, breakout player of the year, and back to the 2024 pro-bowl. Moving down the years, Brown made 9 consecutive Pro Bowls and eventually was inducted into the Hall of Fame. What a great player the Yeti could have picked up, but instead they got an IA bust.

[TheManWhoSoldTheWorld]

PBE PT +3 TPE

[Ry_]

PBE PT

[thevoicelesscreator]

PBE Welfare

[PSanchez55]

The Season 15 NSFL draft class was insane. Over 100 new NSFLers entered the fray. That class by itself injected new life into the league. Where would the league be without Valor, Baron, Frick_Nasty, Moonlight, and others. Scouting this massive group of people was a real pain. This is especially true in the DSFL draft. One young QB, Brock Landers, fell unnoticed to the 88th? pick. The two expansion teams got their guys early in Longshaw? And Lange. Portland grabbed Franklin Armstrong in the 9th. The Coyotes drafted Ryan Leaf Jr. The Marshals and Luchadores were satisfied with their incumbent QBs Cooter Bigsby, and Corvo Havran. This left a stud in Brock Landers to fall.

He shocked the world by announcing a position switch to wide receiver immediately after being drafted. This left GM's shaking their heads. For example, Portland managed to draft no quality receivers. Landers draft stock rose rapidly. When the NSFL draft arrived, Landers was among the top avaliable prospects. No one was surprised to hear his name called 1st overall. He continued to thrive and improve. And then... Poof, gone. Now he's back, but his absence was costly. His meager 600 TPE as the first overall pick in the stacked S15 draft makes him the biggest NSFL bust... Ever.

[Mysa]

With nearly two dozen drafts under its belt the NSFL has plenty of sleeper and bust picks – one of the most egregious of which was Season 7 Colorado Yeti selection Ryan Lefevre. The TCU grad was one of the best defensive players in the nation in college and the DSFL; and Lefevre was in fact just the second defensive player off the board (and the first linebacker). Expectations were high from the get-go.

And in spite of playing just 11 games for Kansas City in the DSFL, the linebacker put up exceptional defensive stats – in fact often outperforming high-earning players who had played the full fourteen. He had a massive 6 TFLs (#4 among all LBs), 6 sacks (T-#5 among LBs), and even an interception to his name, skyrocketing his demand as he demonstrated his huge play making ability. But after the draft, the TCU linebacker never earned another single TPE – a result so horrifying to an already-struggling Yeti team that had failed to win a single game in Season 6… and did so again in Season 7.

Thankfully, brighter days were ahead for the Yeti, who jumped to contention-level regular season records in Seasons 9 through 13. And although they aren’t the picture-perfect earners of yore, they did manage to acquire WRs Howard Miller and Mark Grau in that very same first round. Not-so-coincidentally, they acquired fellow Pro Bowler Ryan Applehort in the process – so the Yeti had plenty of room for error provided they owned half of the entire first round that season. Provided how they’ve done since (and how highly they’re regarded this season), I don’t think too many people look wistfully on the Ryan Lefevre pick.

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PBE AFFILIATE PT

[nunccoepi]

Alright well, I hate throwing shade, especially in this league where obviously everything is over the internet and people take things way too seriously. So that's my first caveat. Secondly, I doubt the user will ever read this, but if she does, I'm sorry but the truth had to come out. So, the year is S10 and I was the GM of the Tijuana Luchadores along with @iseedoug. This might have been us at our peak to be honest. The Luchadores had gone to three straight Ultiminis with me as a GM and won the last two under iseedoug and I. So, you can say that we were flying high and were just about to have another great draft. Back before all you youngins came in this is what was considered a solid class of 32 people. We draft @Bzerkap's CB, Bobson Duggnut with our first pick and @Ben's guy Tana Keita with our second. With our third pick we needed a tight end because those were rare in the DSFL so we selected Steven Moore. This was our mistake I guess. Or maybe our mistake was not better scouting our fourth round pick, Curtis Saul. I don't even remember Moore's user but apparently him and Saul's user had some bad blood and Saul's user took it really personally when we happened to select Moore before her in the draft. Long story short she ended up never updating for us. She was a great DL and kept earning tpe, but never updated just so spite us. Can you really call it a bust when it was a fourth round pick? I don't know, but it felt like it and that was the closest thing I had to a bust while GM I think. Anyways, it all worked out in the end because we ended up trading her to some scrub team and then winning the Ultimini without her. Her loss I guess.