They recently traded him to Pittsburgh for a conditional pick - The Steelers put him on IR a week or so after he got there.

I think the biggest disaster is the Cardinals drafting Andre Wadsworth with the 3rd overall pick in 1998 and passed on Charles Woodson, Randy Moss, Keith Brooking, Takeo Spikes, and Fred Taylor.

In 1992 the colts picked Steve Emtman and Quentin Coreyot with the first two picks in the draft. I don't know how long they started or stayed on the team.

he never caught a pass for them and is now in KC. That mistake is still reverberating today as SF is short of receivers after the injuries to Crabtree and Manningham..

Their 1st round draft history has been pretty sketchy since being reformed in 99. Joe Thomas has been good, though.

I'm not sure you can call it "franchise altering" though, because it's not like they were good before that draft and then fell apart. It had the potential to be a franchise altering draft (in a good way) but they missed.

In 2005, the Vikings took both Troy Williams and Erasmus James both in the top 18, and though they didn't depend on those two as much (a WR and DE), it was a pretty bad draft.

7 - Ray Agnew, DE - North Carolina State

During the 1990 draft, the Patriots traded their first round pick (3rd overall) to Seattle for two first round draft picks. One of those picks, the tenth overall, was used to select Ray Agnew. Seattle used the 3rd pick to select Cortez Kennedy. In 167 games with Seattle, he recorded 668 tackles, 58 sacks, and 3 interceptions and is arguably one of the best defensive tackles to ever play the position. In five seasons with the Patriots, he only had 7.5 sacks and saw his playing time diminish under Bill Parcells. He was let go after the 1994 season.

6 - Chris Singleton, LB - Arizona

The other first round pick (8th overall) the Patriots received from the Seattle trade in the 1990 draft was used in the selection of Chris Singleton. Needless to say, Singleton did nothing to provide any kind of pass rushing force for the Patriots. He played a total of 33 games, starting 22, in four seasons in New England and sacked the quarterback only four times. The best story coming from Singleton in 1990 was when he donated bone marrow to save his twin brother, Kevin, who was diagnosed with leukemia. I don't think Cortez Kennedy ever donated bone marrow

you are certain to come up with Ken Sims. No. 1 overall.

along with him in the first round. Sims was their only first round pick that year.

I guess he only had one shot at blowing two 1st round picks in a year, and that year he did pick up Roy Williams. So the 2012 Browns draft probably is worse. But there are reasons the Lions managed a winless 2008 season, one being the magic reverse Midas touch of Millen. Building for a true nightmare season takes consistent bad picking year in and year out...

Millen did draft Calvin Johnson. But with three shots at picking in one of the first three slots, Millen's other two choices were Joey Harrington and Charles Rogers.

2001 Jeff Backus #18
2002 Joey Harrington #3
2003 Charles Rogers #2
2004 Roy Williams #7
2004 Kevin Jones #30
2005 Mike Williams #10
2006 Ernie Sims #9
2007 Calvin Johnson #2
2008 Gosder Cherilus #17

is a bit of an overstatement. More like business as usual.

As far as bad drafts go, Minnesota had the #7 pick and the #18 pick in 2005 and picked Troy Williamson and Erasmus James, both of whom were gone three seasons later. In retrospect, Aaron Rodgers might have been a better choice.

They sucked before and they suck now. What's the diff?

a pattern of awful choice in QBs, or horrible coaching, or both.

They could have taken Russell Wilson with the third pick last year, though with their problems at QB being so acute, there's no telling if Wilson would be benched by now too.

Weedan was picked under Mike Holmgren's watch. Can Mike Lombardi fare better?