(S22) - PT3 - Boom or Bust

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It looks like there are a fair amount of posts around the same few people as busts so I decided to just pick a player randomly from the list that infinite posted ( thank you to infinite for the prompts and for the hints as to why these players are busts, this was really helpful to a newer player). I’m going to review Lucius Kaine, who was selected 4OA in S13 by the Arizona Outlaws. Kaine was a first round DSFL selection to the Portland Pythons out of Ohio State who would light up the DSFL out of the gate, ending the season with the most pure receiving yards as a rookie with 747 yards. He was highly touted out of the DSFL and would go 4th overall to Arizona, but soon after controversy would throw everything off. I’m not too well-versed on the history of the NSFL or the punishments that it has given out, but it looks like Lucius Kaine was owned by Noble, who got in trouble for using a bunch of multis and was suspended from the league. Noble’s suspension caused all of his players to be retired, which meant Arizona lost their first round draft pick in the same year that they had drafted them. While Kaine’s career can only be speculative at this point, it would be tough to match the career of another wide receiver that was drafted after him in Nate Swift. Not only was this a bad pick due to the player’s indefinite suspension, but had Kaine played out his career he could have ended as the second best wide receiver to come out of S13.