JFF vs Ryan Leaf...Biggest, High Profile NFL Flop

[Indndawg]

still RL

 

[msstate7]

Definitely leaf. Leaf was looked at as a can't miss and drafted much higher. Manziel had plenty of doubters

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Leaf. He looked like an NFL qb with all the skills.

 

[CoastDawg18]

Leaf for sure. He was a sure fire hall of fame lock by all accounts. JFF had a lot of doubters coming out.

 

[patdog]

Leaf was interviewed yesterday. Said watching Manziel is like looking at himself in a mirror.

 

[Indndawg]

Wow..

Leaf was interviewed yesterday. Said watching Manziel is like looking at himself in a mirror.

SMH so sad

 

[57stratdawg]

I agree. It's hard for me to call a kid a bust when he was overdrafted. I think back to Jamarcus Russell to some degree. I remember Kiper saying if Russell didn't go #1 overall, he didn't know when he would be drafted, because there weren't many teams calling him a franchise QB.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

I'll go with Leaf, but only because of the time. The warning signs for Leaf were there, but we have to remember in 1998 that reporting on the personal lives of athletes was much smaller as the internet had not really taken off. Manziel's life was under a microscope and anytime something shady happened it was plaster on every sports blog and message board.