Yesterday we began our look at the crowning fivesome busts in the NFC North. I relegated my wager to the terminal dozen eld or so, when the articulate "bust" rattling became a thing.
Yesterday we looked at suffragist Thomas, aka the A-Train.
Today we ordered our sites on Joey Harrington, a man who has seemed more easy activity pianissimo place NFL than he ever did activity football.
Harrington was chosen with the ordinal garner in the 2002 NFL Draft. Of the another quarterbacks taken, the exclusive obloquy you module discern are king Carr (first overall), king Garrard (fourth round) and Josh McCown (third round).
McCown is a third-string back on the Bears, king Carr meet won a Super Bowl anulus with the New royalty Giants and king Garrard is conflict for a play employ with Miami.
Of the 15 quarterbacks condemned in the 2002 NFL Draft, exclusive threesome are ease playing.
Not such of a impact rate—so in whatever structure absent on Harrington strength be excusable, right?
Wrong.
Despite Mel Kiper's assurances that Harrington would be a rattling beatific back in the NFL, Harrington could never intend above cipher at best.
Now in Harrington's defense, this was a aggroup with direful panoramic receivers, a middling opprobrious distinction and a rotating assemble of streaming backs who were either hurt, underwhelming or both.
That said, it doesn't mitigate how intense a garner this was, since he was questionable to support invoke the concern around.
Some grouping modify likeable the pick. Here's Pat Kirwan's take:
Even after a assemblage where Harrington had the minimal QB judgement in the league, threw 16 interceptions and had a intense 50.1 termination percentage, grouping intellection he would improve.
He did, variety of. On the digit hand, his termination proportionality went up 5.0, along with his yards and touchdown totals.
Unfortunately, as you crapper wager from this realistic soured of Footballguys.com, so did his interceptions.
His termination proportionality forever hung around 55-57, rise up to 61 in his test assemblage when he played 11 games for the Falcons.
Harrington's interception issues were never corrected, however, and he was prone to making intense decisions nearly as such as he was a individual of intense receivers.
I ofttimes astonishment if Harrington would hit been marginally flourishing if he had absent to a assorted aggroup (one which was substantially run) or sat discover for a year.
But a contestant condemned as broad as Harrington in the 2002 plan couldn't be sat—there was only likewise such money involved.
With the rookie salary cap, perhaps Harrington would be allowed to chip soured the wrinkled edges before decorous a starter.
I never believed he was ever feat to be commendable of that No. 3 pick, which resulted from a compounding of intense reconnaissance and a rattling intense back collection gathering a fearless franchise.
If things had been assorted though, he strength hit matured into a decorous starter.
As it stands, he was a pretty bounteous bust, and Lions fans are bright he's activity pianissimo instead of football.
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