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Best/worst first-round picks: | | | | | | | CFB 24/7 continues its countdown of the best and worst first-round picks at all 32 slots during the era. We will do four spots per day, until we end up with the three best -- and three worst -- No. 1 picks.No. 8 pickWho picks here in 2015:Overview: There have been a handful of high-level players taken at No. 8. But there also have been a handful of busts. No. 8 picks also include a mighty sad story, too.HITSDB Ronnie Lott: Taken in 1981 by the out of USC. A lot of folks forget that he started at cornerback in his first four seasons with the . He then moved to free safety and helped make the template for how the position should be played: Lott covered a ton of ground and also could lay the lumber. He is seventh in NFL history with 63 interceptions. Lott was a six-time All-Pro (including once at corner) and a 10-time er; he was inducted into the in 2000.G Mike Munchak: Taken in 1982 by the Houston Oilers out of Penn State. Opening holes for a running back or protecting his quarterback -- Munchak was equally adept in both roles. He played 12 seasons and was a two-time All-Pro and a nine-time er. Munchak was inducted into the in 2001.OT Willie Roaf: Taken in 1993 by the Lyle Alzado Jersey out of Louisiana Tech. He played 13 seasons in the NFL and started all 189 games in which he was active. He was a three-time All-Pro and a nine-time er. His first All-Pro selection came in his second season, when he was 24; his final All-Pro selection came in his 12th season, when he was 34. Roaf was inducted into the in 2012.MISSESCB Leonard Coleman: Taken in 1984 by the out of Vanderbilt. Coleman was the initial first-round pick made by the after they moved to Indianapolis. It did not go well: He had a contract dispute with the (it worsened when owner Bob Irsay said Coleman wasn't worth what he was asking for) and instead signed with the USFL's Memphis franchise. He finally joined the in 1985. Coleman started all 16 games in '86, but he played just 21 more games -- starting none of them -- in the next three seasons before his career was over.G Royce Smith: Taken in 1972 by the out of Georgia. The made a lot of bad picks in the 1970s, something their fans know all too well. Smith was one of them. He started 10 games as a rookie, then started just eight more in the next four seasons. You don't draft a guy eighth to be a backup. New Orleans traded him to Atlanta after his second season, and he played three seasons and started five times with the before his career ended.WR David Terrell: Taken in 2001 by the out of Michigan. Terrell was the Theo Riddick Jersey first receiver taken in the 2001 draft -- 22 spots ahead of . Yes, Wayne worked with a better quarterback, but Terrell still was a big mi s. Terrell was a fulltime starter for just one of his four seasons in Chicago and averaged 400 receiving yards per season with the , with nine total TDs. He played two games for Denver in 2005, then his career was over.Note: RB Larry Stegent, taken No. 8 by the St. Louis in 1970, is often considered one of the biggest busts in NFL history, but there were extenuating -- and, frankly, sad -- circumstances. Stegent, who had starred at Texas A&M, blew out his knee during practice for the then-annual College Football All-Star Cla sic, which pitted a team of rookies against the defending champs (the game lasted from 1934-76). The injury caused Stegent to mi s his rookie season; he was able to play in just seven games in 1971 before his career ended. His final career numbers: zero carries and one catch for 7 yards.No. 7 pickWho picks here in 2015:Overview: Believe it or not, no player picked seventh overall in the era has made the . Only one player ever selected No. 7, Clyde "Bulldog" Turner, is in the , and he was drafted in 1940. It was far tougher to pick the mi ses than the hits simply because there were so many mi ses at No. 7. Todd Blackledge, Larry Burton, Joe Campbell, Kevin Hardy (the DE, not the OLB), Troy Williamson, Tim Worley -- all bad, but not on the list. Be very afraid, fans.HITSCB : Taken in 1999 by the out of Charles Woodson Jersey Georgia. He played 15 seasons and was a 12-time er. Bailey, who also was a three-time All-Pro, played in 215 games in his career and started 212 of them. He led the league with 10 interceptions in 2006 and finished with 52 career picks. Bailey was both a shutdown corner and an effective run defender; he had at least 60 tackles eight times in his career.RB : Taken in 2007 by the out of Oklahoma. Peterson has played at least 14 games in a season seven times, and six times has reached the 1,200-yard plateau, including 2,097 in 2012. He also has rushed for 86 touchdowns, already the 14th-most in league history. Peterson twice has led the league in rushing, and he has been in the top-five five times. He is a three-time All-Pro selection and a six-time er.QB Phil Simms: Taken in 1979 by the out of Morehead State. Darren Waller Jersey Simms played on the same bad teams early in his tenure, but he also was there when the became a league powerhouse and won two s. Simms, who was seen as a risky pick by some because he played Division I-AA football (now called FCS), threw for 33,462 yards and 199 TDs in his career.MISSESOT/G Brian Jozwiak: Taken in 1986 by the out of West Virginia. Jozwiak suffered a severe hip injury during his third season, and that ended his career. But he hadn't done much before that to make you think he could be an effective NFL lineman. He started just two games in his first two seasons in the NFL and seemed destined to be a backup when he was forced to give up football. He now is a high school teacher in North Port, Fla., near Sarasota.DE Reggie Rogers: Taken in 1987 by the out of Washington. Rogers played just six games as a rookie because of emotional i sues. He played in the first five games in 1988, with two starts, before he was involved in a drunk-driving incident in which the car he was driving hit another car and killed three teenagers. He went to prison for a year, then received chances from Buffalo in 1991 and from Tampa Bay in 1992. He played in just two games for each of those teams and his career was over. The final numbers: 15 Trevon Moehrig Jersey games, two starts, two sacks. He died in 2013 as a result of cocaine and alcohol intoxication.QB Andre Ware: Taken in 1990 by the out of Houston. He torched opposing secondaries for 46 TD pa ses in Houston coach ' run-and-shoot offense and won the Heisman in 1989. But Ware appeared in just 14 NFL games in four seasons, starting six of them, and threw only five career TD pa ses, which would've been a good game for him at Houston.No. 6 pickWho picks here in 2015:Overview: There have been an alarming number of out-and-out busts picked at No. 6. We left out a few, such as S Mo sy Cade, who was arrested for sexual a sault on a family member as a rookie but allowed by the to finish out that season -- and the next -- as the case went through the court system, and DE/LB Vernon Gholston, who was drafted as a pa s rusher but had no sacks in a three-season career. There's also DE Dennis Byrd, who was drafted in the first round in 1968 despite lingering effects of a knee injury suffered in college. He played one season for the , then was done.HITSOT Walter Jones: Taken in 1997 by the out of Florida State. He was one of the most dominant linemen of his era. He played 12 seasons, all with Seattle, and was a four-time All-Pro and a nine-time er, including in his final season. Three of his All-Pro selections came when he was in his 30s. He was active for 180 games in his career and started every one of them. Jones was inducted into the in 2014.WR James Lofton: Taken in 1978 by the out of St
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