Who were you so excited to see on your favorite team, because they needed a hero? (1 Viewer)

[BoltNlava]

My two were: 

David Boston 

Ryan Leaf

I was so excited to see Boston play for the Chargers ...*Sigh* but not like the QB of the future ...Ryan Leaf! I bought a jersey and everything! I even traveled with the teams schedule to watch the glory all unfold. Never again with the hype..lol. But I have no home team anymore to root for. 

Who's yours?

 

[rockaction]

Darrelle Revis is the best player the Jets have had in my adulthood. But I can't remember a draft pick I was excited for besides maybe Mark Sanchez. But that was never to be, really. 

 

[Enderdog]

Jim Plunkett.  The Raiders were a different team when he replaced Pastorini.

 

[IHEARTFF]

Mahomes. KC hadn’t picked a qb in round 1 since Todd Barfledge in the dream qb class of 1983. And they picked a boom/bust prospect when they had a safe qb in Alex Smith. Obviously turned out even better but was very exciting at the time.

 

[-OZ-]

Vince Young 

Marcus Mariota

Julio Jones

 

[rockaction]

Vince Young 

Marcus Mariota

Julio Jones

I would say don't be sad, but zero out of three is indeed bad. 

 

[Uruk-Hai]

I'm sure there were a lot of duds that I'm conveniently forgetting, but Lamar Jackson. That's not hindsight, either.

God bless Joe Flacco - he won a bunch of games with Baltimore (I believe he had the NFL record for road playoff wins by a QB at one time) and was a good guy (until Jackson got drafted). But by the mid-2010s, the Ravens had gotten stale. They were still good, but they were also pretty dull and limited. When they traded back into the 1st to get Jackson, it told me that Harbaugh was willing to change everything he'd been doing for 10 years. That took a lot of guts and they did it. Jury's still out on the ultimate prize, but Jackson has won about 75% of his starts and has energized the fanbase. 

 

[OldMilwaukee]

TO

 

[rockaction]

Jury's still out on the ultimate prize

Jackson's been excellent. Too bad his tenure will be judged that way. 

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Jackson's been excellent. Too bad his tenure will be judged that way. 

Yeah, that's what I meant - "they" will always ding him until he gets one. For my personal Ravens fandom, it's been fantastic. It's hard to win SBs, especially with the league as loaded with really good QBs as it is now.

 

[rockaction]

Yeah, that's what I meant

Yep. Just concurring and lamenting the same thing you are. 

 

[-OZ-]

I would say don't be sad, but zero out of three is indeed bad. 

True. I was a little excited about Henry, brown (Not as much as I should have been) and CJ3. Those guys were okay. 

 

[rockaction]

True. I was a little excited about Henry, brown (Not as much as I should have been) and CJ3. Those guys were okay. 

Indeed. Playoff wins are much more than the Jets can muster at this point, that's for sure. 

 

[Gally]

For draft picks it is easily Adrian Peterson and Randy Moss.  Both guys lived up to the billing and were awesome to see on your team.   I was also a huge fan of Jared Allen and couldn't believe the Vikes were able to land him.  He was outstanding to have on your team as well. 

 

[greenmountaingoat]

N'Keal Harry. Brady finally gets his #1 WR, LFG people. 

 

[greenmountaingoat]

N'Keal Harry. Brady finally gets his #1 WR, LFG people. 

Poop emoji = smiley face?? lol

 

[menobrown]

I pretty much got into the  football and the NFL in 1980, when I was 9, and became a Steeler's fan by choice not due to family history or geography.  I got the last few years of Bradshaw and he was my first favorite player in the NFL.

With  respect to Kordell and O'Donnell, both of whom pulled off some solid seasons, little did I know after seeing Bradshaw leave that I'd spend almost 25 years of my life wondering what it was like to have a real franchise QB lead my team. During that time I had to endure one of the worst decisions ever when the Steelers passed Marino for a DT who ended up paralyzed before his rookie year was done. (and I just want to add that 12 year old me thought Marino was special, this is not even after the fact angst, I could not believe they passed him)

So while his ogre looking appearance, early shady antics, late career odd ball born again christian self feeling need to publicly air his porn addiction  and his general personality is more villianious then heroic the answer for me is Ben Roethlisberger.

 

[belljr]

Kendrell Bell

 

[dickey moe]

Troy Aikman… I followed him at UCLA, saw him play a few times, then was ecstatic when he joined the Cowboys. Even better when they began winning SBs a few seasons later.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Brian Urlacher.

I have still never, and will never, forgive the Steelers/Plaxico Burress.

 

[Dacomish]

The Boz - Brian Bozworth, so much hype it was incredible, then he got trucked by Bo Jackson and just faded away.......

 

[Houston turmOiler]

Deshaun Watson. It was looking nice for a while, but then he turned into a disaster just like everything else with the Texans..... now I pretty much gave up on the franchise. 

 

[ChiefD]

Mahomes. KC hadn’t picked a qb in round 1 since Todd Barfledge in the dream qb class of 1983. And they picked a boom/bust prospect when they had a safe qb in Alex Smith. Obviously turned out even better but was very exciting at the time.

Yep.

I had given up hope the Chiefs would ever draft a quarterback, let alone a potential hall of famer. And then he goes out and wins us a Super Bowl? Never in my life would I have expected that after all the gut punches for my 50 years of fandom.

I'd have sex with Mahomes if he asked me to. 

 

[Chaka]

Most recently Khalil Mack, what a force he was. I thought he would be in Silver'n'Black for a decade

Before that I thought Robert Gallery was a sure fire decade long All-Pro LT, and the year before I was over the moon to land Nnamdi Asmougha not necessarily because I thought he was a generational talent but I figured that would give the Raiders two lock down corners for the next 5-7 years with Charles Woodson, an absolute generational talent, on the other side.

The worst for me probably was Todd Marinovich. Man what a #### show and I will always wonder what may have been with him.

 

[Capella]

uhhhh, Tom Brady 

 

[Jayded]

Deshaun Watson - Got an alert earlier that it was 5 years ago today because I celebrated. I knew we’d finally have a franchise QB. Alas, our ownership

 

[Keith R]

Marshawn Lynch.  I knew he would be a game changer when the Seahawks got him from Buffalo

 

[ffmail4me]

Portis when he was first traded to Washington. And Chase Young more recently because we were so awful the year prior and needed an impact generational talent (jury is still out on that but upside still seems to be huge) 

 

[dhockster]

TO when he came to Philly. Thought he would put them over the top (almost did). a year and a half later he is doing sit-ups in his driveway and I couldn't wait for him to leave

 

[TLEF316]

Not gonna lie....I thought Vernon gholston was gonna do this to Tom Brady.....

It did NOT work out

 

[Soulfly3]

nick chubb. i still remember getting a lot of high fives in here when he was the pick....

man, did I ever want him... and boy, do I ever love him