(S22) - PT3 - Boom or Bust

[DarknessRising]

With limited knowledge on the history of busts in this league, since the real bad ones are put away into a dark corner to be forgotten about for all those involved, there is only really one possible name for me to talk about, Sweet James-Jones.

Whilst most obviously, a first round pick that ends up not being able to live out their entire career automatically makes it a bust, what makes it over the top is in the way it happens. NSFL teams draft with more scrutiny on who will fit their team needs, either by their personality or position. A first-round pick essentially means that a top player in that class can go to your team, meaning they should be occupying one of team spots with high TPE gain, good personality and activeness. What Chicago go out of SJJ failed miserably. A first-round pick is expected to be a giant part of the teams image, and what SJJ did will always remain a blood-stain on the Butchers past. A misused first round pick on someone that doesn’t just go IA, but banned, is a high value to lose. SJJ was expected to be a part of the future Butchers line-up, a mainstay as a first round pick, yet that got blown to pieces by some “character work” that was astonishingly over the line. It can therefore be considered, the draft pick that was the biggest bust in history.