SkippyX Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Lots of guys you thought might be long term good players that just faded. Julius Thomas comes to mind Josh Norman maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp0k2 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Roy Williams - former Lions, Cowboys, Bears receiver. Put together some good seasons in Detroit and suddenly became mediocre at 27 and out of the league at 30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apparition Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 19 minutes ago, SkippyX said: Julius Thomas comes to mind He was never very good. He just caught a lot of TDs that one year because everyone on the Broncos did. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Raider Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Nnamdi was a good answer in this post. There were obviously signs you can look back with hindsight and say yeah that was destined to go bad from the start. But it's still rare to see someone go from a lock down guy to out of the league basically 2 seasons later at only 32. But part of that could have been his interest in doing other things outside of football. The Raiders haven't had too many surprising fall from grace types that I can think of. Zach Miller is one that comes to mind. Obviously not on the level of a guy like Asomugha or others mentioned in this thread, but he was a fairly highly touted prospect in the 2007 draft at TE. He was drafted in the 2nd round and while playing with some absolutely terrible QB play and very little supporting talent on offense overall he still had a solid rookie year by TE standards (45ish receptions, 450 yards, and 3 or 4 TDs), and then from year 2 to year 4 he had 60 receptions, 700-800 yards, and a handful of TDs. He got paid pretty well for the time, and was one of the more highly regarded free agents due to his production in a terrible situation and how young he was still. I truly thought when he went to Seattle and in his second year there they drafted Russell Wilson, that he was going to be a great TE for them. I thought he was going to be a guy that benefited with playing with a QB like Wilson, even as a rookie or second year guy, a back like Lynch, and their style of offense. Ultimately he seemed to have faded because he was elevated stat wise because there wasn't much else worthy of looks and bad QBs love TEs. Was still a surprising semi fall from grace to me personally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwibrown Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 1 hour ago, Starless said: He was still a very good player with New England in 2018, but that lack of momentum from the time he missed really dragged him down. He also lost a ton of speed. He went from fast for the nfl to normal speed. It wasnt the hits on his legs that did it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sammymvpknight Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Braylon Edwards is up there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucsfan333 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 After Michael Clayton's rookie year, it looked like he was gonna be a great one for a decade. He never came close to that level of play for the next seven years of his career. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteelKing728 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 David Boston Michael Clayton Michael Bennett Gary Barnidge Matt Kalil Blair Walsh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatJerkDave Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Peerless Price fell off the map. Herman Moore got hurt and was never the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdolphins18 Posted May 29, 2021 Share Posted May 29, 2021 Albert Haynesworth, Ndamukong Suh, Mike Wallace, and Todd Gurley are the ones that came to my mind, espescially Haynesworth, he really fell off after getting that massive contract from the Redskins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 1 hour ago, bucsfan333 said: After Michael Clayton's rookie year, it looked like he was gonna be a great one for a decade. He never came close to that level of play for the next seven years of his career. Clayton was actually the first guy I thought of, as weird as that is 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apparition Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 2 hours ago, sammymvpknight said: Braylon Edwards is up there. I think of him as more of a one-year wonder tbh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET80 Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Le'Veon Bell, or is that TBD? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forge Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 5 minutes ago, ET80 said: Le'Veon Bell, or is that TBD? I had written a response about running backs in general (Shaun Alexander) but volume matters so much that you almost have to adjust your age guidelines for the position. That being said, bell is a real legit option. He was done after age 25 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
///mcompact Posted May 30, 2021 Share Posted May 30, 2021 Jaylon "The Drop Footed Swiper" Smith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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