(S7) - PT 1 - Biggest Busts

[Titan127]

I haven't been on here very long, but I would say Damien West, WR for the Yellowknife Wraiths, my NSFL team, actually. The fifth overall pick of the NSFL's first draft started with a bang, posting seventy five catches for just over a thousand yards. Even if he only hauled in four touchdowns, that was fine, he was one of the top five receivers in the league at the time, production wise.

That's when the decline started.

West went on to haul in fifty nine passes for under eight hundred yards and just three touchdowns this time around, in season two, a drastic drop off in production for such a highly touted prospect. After all, he was still a young player, only in his second season. The next year, his third, however, was starting to grate on the nerves of those around him, as his production dropped off yet again, now with forty eight catches, an eleven ball drop off, for six hundred forty five yards and again three scores.

First, it was a sixteen reception, one hundred thirty yard, one touchdown drop off, and now it was an eleven catch, one hundred thirty five yard slip. He was a productive receiver as a complementary threat, but he wasn't the explosive beast that he'd been in the past, now on a different squad.

48 catches, 605 yards, and again three touchdowns. Another fall in production in year four. he had a resurgence the next year, with yet another team, nonetheless, with a 52 catch, 575 yard, 7 touchdown season. The numbers weren't great, but the touchdowns were a career high, and the receptions were the third best of his six year career.

Just as it seemed he was ready to fulfill his potential, West hit rock bottom with a three catch, seventeen yard season in eight games.

The fifth overall pick in NSFL history, and this is what he came to.