Reggie Bush's career is over

[Rod Smart]

Torn ACL.
Going to be a 31 year old free agent
Career likely over



Not much impact this year, and didn't live up to the #2 overall hype, but DAMN he was exciting.

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

 

[kramer1]

1000+ combined yards 4 of 10 seasons. 53 td's. Two missing Heisman trophies.

 

[bksballer89]

FAILURE.

At least he got a ring though.

 

[Clayton]

Really underwhelming career. ProfootballReference's top modern comparison is Thomas Jones.

I wonder if the player's union is going to have a beef with the Edward Jones Dome because of 2 straight games where guys fell down. USC legend ended in team going cheap to get back to LA?

 

[Iggloo]

Overall, you have to call it an underwhelming career.

 

[Rock Strongo]

 

[ducky]

FAILURE.

At least he got a ring though.

I wouldn't say he was a failure. Not his fault that scouts wildly overrated him to begin with because he was running behind a great college OL against some pathetic Pac 10 defenses. And he had to deal with a massive list of injuries throughout his career.

It's funny how that was probably one of the most debated drafts of all time and in the end the entire top 10 with the exception of D'Brickashaw were all slightly disappointing.

 

[bksballer89]

I wouldn't say he was a failure. Not his fault that scouts wildly overrated him to begin with because he was running behind a great college OL against some pathetic Pac 10 defenses. And he had to deal with a massive list of injuries throughout his career.

It's funny how that was probably one of the most debated drafts of all time and in the end the entire top 10 with the exception of D'Brickashaw were all slightly disappointing.

Vernon Davis did not have a bad career either until the last 2 years

 

[Malibu]

Let me know when his career starts...

 

[Rod Smart]

Vernon Davis did not have a bad career either until the last 2 years

That Mario Williams guy is pretty good

 

[Rod Smart]

It's funny how that was probably one of the most debated drafts of all time and in the end the entire top 10 with the exception of D'Brickashaw were all slightly disappointing.

2006 draft top 10:
Mario Williams, Reggie Bush, D'Brick, AJ Hawk, VD, Donte Hitner

No worse than 2005:
Antrel Rolle probably the best player

or 2007:
Calvin Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Joe Thomas..... but also JaWalrus Russell, Gaines Adams, Levin Brown, Jamaal Ass Anderson, and Amobi Okoye

 

[ducky]

Vernon Davis did not have a bad career either until the last 2 years

There's a lot of guys in that top 10 that didn't have bad careers (in fact most of them had solid careers outside of the QB's selected)....just slightly disappointing when you look at where they were picked.

 

[night]

At least he earned some STDs from Kim Kardashian in the meantime.

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

That draft overall was just terrible. Not 2009 terrible, but you didn't want a high 1st rounder in 06. Vince Young lol. Some good O-Lineman in that draft though (Joseph, Mangold, Furgeson).

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

At least he earned some STDs from Kim Kardashian in the meantime.

*shudder*

 

[Clayton]

1. D'Brick
2. Ngata
3. Brandon Marshall
4. Tamba Hali
5. Mario Williams

Reggie would be somewhere between 15-20 Im guessing

 

[The Oldtimer]

FAILURE.

At least he got a ring though.

I wouldn't call "any" NFL player a failure. Reggie never was great in the NFL, but he was solid. He was great in college.

 

[ducky]

2006 draft top 10:
Mario Williams, Reggie Bush, D'Brick, AJ Hawk, VD, Donte Hitner

No worse than 2005:
Antrel Rolle probably the best player

or 2007:
Calvin Johnson, Adrian Peterson, Joe Thomas..... but also JaWalrus Russell, Gaines Adams, Levin Brown, Jamaal Ass Anderson, and Amobi Okoye

The 2006 draft for me though is the hype that was created that year. Nearly everyone of the top 10 picks that year had a couple people thinking they were going to be generational talents.

Mario Williams was an INCREDIBLY combination of size and athleticism.
People were thinking Bush was the 2nd coming of Sanders or Sayers.
Vince had plenty of people in his corner.
V Davis still is one of the most athletically talented TE to enter the league.
People thought Huff was going to be great.

That draft is just funny because, like I said it probably was one of the most followed and debated drafts, but in the end it was one that wasn't particularly significant in that top 10.

 

[ducky]

I was looking at that draft again and the one thing that is just shocking is how brutal the NFL is.

That was 9 years ago and some of the players on that list have been done for a couple of years already....and some of them 4 years after the draft looked like the best picks of the draft:

Rocky McIntosh
Thomas Howard
Marcus McNeil
Kiwanuka
Santonio Holmes
Bunkley
ect, ect