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Starting with Katzenmoyer is sort of foolish.

He was named to the NFL All-Rookie team, finished his rookie year with over 75 tackles and 3.5 sacks from the MLB spot, and returned an INT for a TD. Great performance. His career was ended due to a neck injury.

It's hard to point to career-ending injuries as poor drafting.

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PatsWickedPissah

The topic is WORST #1 picks in team history.

Jones actually PLAYED for the Pats unlike some of the WORST picks. Not only played he STARTED for the Patriots AHEAD of all the other safetys on the squad, and later the Pats got a DAY ONE pick for Tebucky.

Tebuckey hardly deserves mention compared to the rest of the real losers cited in this thread.

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realtime

Chung was just a joke on so many levels. Not only was he a terrible player but the way we ended up with him just exemplifies how incompetent Pats' management was at the time.

The Pats had the 7th pick in the draft and went in to the draft hellbent on selecting an OL. There were at least four OL's with first round grades IIRC -- Whitfield, Searcy, Roberts and Chung. We traded out of the top 10 from 7 down to 19, thinking one of the 4 OL's would be available by the time we picked.

So, of course, right after the Pats traded down to 19, Whitfield, Searcy and Roberts all get snatched up. The team then panics and trades up from 19 to 13 to pick Chung.

McPherson was asked in the post-draft press conference whether Chung had been the Pats' top-rated OL. I'll never forget his answer: "Wouldn't it be nice if we could say that?" That sums it up for me -- just a terrible, terrible pick by a then-terrible organization.

primetime

Jermaine Wiggins was the starting TE in 2001.

Synovia

Yeah, really crappy list.

Both were great picks...its just that ***** happens.

Seacoast Fan

[QUOTE=Rob0729;1334336]I loved how Bobby Grier admitted when he drafted Canty that he drafted him to be a nickelback. A first round pick as a nickelback. When he could have had Dexter McCleon (2nd round and he wasn't all that great, but much better than Canty), Sam Madison (2nd round), or Ronde Barber (3rd round).


I was going to make the same point...I will never forget that. I wonder what grier is doing now

I agree with the comments about Katz and HL Dykes and injuries. I would have put Kenneth Sims on the list too, since he was one overall.

Ochmed Jones

Again, I think the problem with Sims was round hole, square peg. He was a 4-3 DT forced to play DL on a 3-4 defense. Yes his attitude did not help, but the Pats should have done a better job of projecting a difficult transition for him.

patsfaninpa

Here's a name I haven't seen mentioned. Bob Cryder - G - Alabama.
Bucko Kilroy had a great run in mid-70's. Then he struck paydirt...err...mud in 78.

75 R. Francis
76 Haynes/Brock/Fox
77 Clayborn/Morgan
78 Cryder

70's version of E.Chung.

primetime

Supposedly, when it was announced, they talked about how he was so much like John Hannah. Then they interviewed Bear Bryant, who was like "Who said he's anything like John Hannah? You're kidding right?"

tanked_as_usual

so when did you become a pats fan?

rutledge started the entire season......wiggins started when they used 2 TE's