Top 10 Draft Busts from 2013 Season

Nothing is worse than watching your top picks spiral into a stinky mess. Injuries, trades and age can wreak havoc on your prized blue chippers, leaving you to scramble to the waiver wire and dropping those who were once thought undroppable. Here are last year’s most regrettable picks from The Thrill is Gone* league. 

10. Daryl Richardson - Round 5, 8th Pick, Taken by poop

Daryl Richardson was the heir apparent to long time St. Louis Ram workhorse Steven Jackson after a strong performance as a rookie back up the previous year. Unfortunately, Richardson stumbled out of the gate and was supplanted by an emerging Fat Zac Stacy. The preseason favorite to get the majority of the touches left fantasy owners scratching their heads, but as reports later revealed, Daryl was battling a SECRET TURF TOE injury throughout the year. As a 5th round pick, the damage was not severe, but his lowly 33.60 total fantasy points for the season and an embarrassing total of 0 TDs lands this DREADful pick on our list.

9. Ahmad Bradshaw – Round 4, 9th Pick, Bodhi Bradshark

The “Bradshark” franchise has a history of questionable picks and this one is no different. Ahmad Bradshaw, seemingly picked due to name similarity to the manager of this cellar dwelling team, had several successful fantasy seasons with the NY Giant as a noted TD vulture. He had always shared a backfield but finally he was given a chance to be a featured back in Indianapolis, an opportunity he promptly squandered by hurting his neck real bad in week 3. The colts quickly realized they needed another back and traded for Trent Richardson, a move they would soon regret. Bradshaw-rk put up a measly 34.80 in only 3 games played, leaving us wondering what could have been.

7. Danny Amendola – Round 4, 2nd Pick, Daniel’s Team

The boy genius running Daniel’s Team looked more like an idiot savant with this pick. Danny Amendola is undersized and fragile and spending a top 4 pick on him is foolhardy. Needless to say, Danny spent time on and off the trainer’s table last year and got his bell rung so many times Anita Ward was worried. He managed only 2 TDs in 12 games. With so much value behind him, it’s easy to understand why Mensa wants a retest.

6. Lamar Miller – Round 3, 3rd Pick, The Pen is Mightier

Another second year guy with high expectations, Lamar Miller fizzled. He was a featured back and gained 709 yards last season, but he just could not find the goal line. Lamar only had 2 TDs in 177 carries and had 4 games in which he failed to reach a total of 10 yards. Talk about a dud. He had to deal with some dramatics concerning his O line, but that’s no excuse for not being able to fall forward 3 times in a game.. 4 times. Look for a better year this go around.

5. Julio Jones – Round 2, 4th pick, Tamba’s Floppy Hat

This bust is just heartbreaking, a real tear jerker. Jones was sidelined after week 5 with a foot and Tamba’s Floppy Hat had to go crawling to the waiver wire with that floppy hat in his hands. Not much more to say about this guy, you hate to see a finely tuned athlete like this go down because of a bad wheel. Expect great things in 2014.

4. Trent Richardson – Round 2, 3rd Pick, Beer and Ice Cream 

Oh Trent, you we’re supposed to carry teams last year, but the Browns smelled something and sent you packing to Indi-a-NO-PLACE. Down on his LUCK, Trent was left out in the COLT by the offense there. He failed to register a 100 yard game and received only 4 touches in the playoffs for a total of 1 yard. Hopefully this supposed workhorse can bounce back and avoid being prematurely sent to the glue factory.

3. Aaron Rodgers – Round 2, 1st Pick, Cum Dumpster

When you draft a QB in the first 2 rounds, you’re expecting a 300+ fantasy point season. What the Dumpster got was a sticky mess. An on again, off again Aaron Rodgers who finished behind Andy “Red Rocket” Dalton and Nick “Vote for Pedro” Foles just didn’t cut it. The Dumpster was sent diving for the waiver wire to solidify his QB position and still finished respectably, but it could’ve been so great, right? Right?! The Dumpster was filled to the brim by the BroadStreet Jags in the playoffs and I think he started Ryan Tannehill.

3. Ray Rice- Round 1, 8th Pick, Tamba’s Floppy Hat

8 overall means we’re dealing with some serious point scorers, the face of your franchise. Unfortunately, Ray Rice had a disappointing season and an even more disappointing off season. He ran for 660 yards, scored only 4 TDs and had 1 KO, which cost him 2 games to start the 2014 campaign. He wasn’t hurt last year; he’s not THAT old.. he just played horribly. Just a bad year for this guy.

2. Doug Martin – Round 1, 3rd Pick, The Pen is Mightier

Came down with Fumblitis in week one and then tore his labrum. It’s hard to watch your top picks suffer, but third overall is especially painful. He had a great 2012 season, so we’ll see if he can bounce back.

1. Arian Foster – Round 1, 2nd Pick, The Ewbengals

Fuck this guy.

The Ewbengals is a fantasy football champion and Senior Dingo Analyst. 

*The Thrill is Gone is one of the most hotly-contested fantasy football champions in the lower 48.