alltime bust team

Toon gets bumped down the WR depth chart by Larry "Stone Hands" Burton and Lindsay Scott. Burton was the seventh overall pick in 1975 and in the two years (plus one game) with the Saints, he managed 35 catches and four touchdowns. He was really fast, but even a perfectly thrown ball hitting him in stride would bounce off his bricks that he used for hands.

Lindsay Scott had no business being in the first round of the 1982 draft, but he had a good game in Georgia's bowl game, prompting the Saints to take him 13th overall. In four seasons with the Saints, he caught 69 passes and a single touchdown. To compound their ineptitude, the Saints took Eugene Goodlow (66th overall) and Kenny Duckett in the third round (68th overall). Goodlow would have probably made a decent fourth or fifth option on a decent team. After Goodlow's 115 catches in four years (had 41 in his rookie year) and Duckett's 34 catches, they were all three out of football by 1986.

So my all-time bust WRs would be Burton and Scott, backed up by Duckett.

My number one all-time Saints bust is linebacker Rick Middleton, who was the Saints' 13th overall pick in 1974. This one is almost too painful to discuss, but suffice it to say that Middleton was a bust of epic proportions. The 14th overall pick was Buckeye teammate and fellow linebacker Randy Gradishar. So while Middleton was out of New Orleans after two seasons and out of the league soon after, Gradishar went on to anchor Denver's Orange Crush defense, become a seven time Pro Bowler and 1978's Defensive Player of the Year.

Even Jonathan Sullivan wasn't as big a bust as Steve Knight, DT out of BYU, or Ted Gregory, the player Knight was traded for a year later.

I could go on, but I need to find a Kleenex. ?