Hawks that never reached their potential and drove you nuts

[hawksfansinceday1]

Curry for me, hands down.
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Timmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!!

 

[jack_patera]

how can u all forget bosworth?!

 

[Blitzer88]

Aaron Curry of course, HUGE disappointment.

 

[Bakergirl]

TJ Duckett. I still miss that guy, and have fond memories of him dragging defenders down field. He was almost untackleable, but in a different way than Lynch. I liked the guy what can I say. Always thought he would have made a killer fullback as well.

 

[Mick063]

Tony Woods

 

[Zebulon Dak]

Aaron Curry
Anthony Simmons
Lamar King
Solomon Bates
Michael Boulware
Koren Robinson
Kelly Jennings
Wayne Hunter
Ike Charlton
There's so damn many....

 

[Subzero717]

Its a lengthy list. You could probably get a really good guess at someones age based on the disappoinment list.

Mine goes

Mirer, Tubbs, McGwire, Boulware, Robinson, any firstvround Timmay selection highlighted by none other than currently cut by the Raiders and unemployed drafted 4th by Mr Ruskell Aaron Curry.

 

[Zebulon Dak]

TJ Duckett. I still miss that guy, and have fond memories of him dragging defenders down field. He was almost untackleable, but in a different way than Lynch. I liked the guy what can I say. Always thought he would have made a killer fullback as well.

I'm with ya. We were unstoppable on & 1's & goal lines that season. Well, when we were actually able to get into that position.

 

[Hawkstorian]

Koren Robinson

This actually answers the question. Hugely talented, addiction killed his career.

 

[tom95]

My top bust was Rick Mirer. The inventor of the 20 yard bounce pass, and the memorable it's not your fault Rick saying!

 

[Paschtorian]

Please.

Has everyone forgotten the 'Boz?

There is NO other answer.

 

[warden]

All the players we received when we traded our first ever first round draft choice away

That Draft pick was traded to Dallas who used it to pick Dorsett

 

[NorthwestSportsFan]

Draft busts only, or are we talking FA/trade busts as well? Nate Odomes anyone? Sure, it was from an injury, but he was supposed to come in and turn around our defense.

Curry was an obvious bust. Koren Robinson and Jerramy Stevens were disappointments, primarily from off-field issues. I thought Tubbs was going to be great.

Mirer was a little disappointing, but I actually didn't have high expectations for him coming out of college and the return we got from his trade made up for it.

For me the biggest disappointment was McGwire, considering that Knox wanted to pick Favre instead.

The sad thing is we have a lot of options to choose from.

 

[hawksfansinceday1]

.............The sad thing is we have a lot of options to choose from.

Yes.

 

[Jac]

Daryl Turner

 

[HawkFan72]

Simmons is a big one. He was on the fast track to becoming a star linebacker, the Hawks locked him up long-term...and then his career took a nosedive. I don't know the details, but on the outside it looked like the case of a guy cashing it in once he got paid.

 

[Starrman44]

I don't really see Boz as a bust. I see him succumbing to injury. He may have been a little overhyped, but I think he did pretty well.

I would have to go with Rick Mirer or Aaron Curry. Super high picks. Huge expectations and really didn't haven't much impact (other than Mirer's first year).

I purchased a Mirer jersey. Even convinced myself I was glad to have him over Bledsoe. Boy was I wrong.

When we got Curry, I celebrated. I defended him staunchly. In retrospect, the dude was a colossal bust.

If I had to make a choice between the two, it would have to be Curry.

 

[kearly]

I think people slightly misunderstood Storm's intentions with this thread. He's not talking about draft busts or the players who failed to live up to their draft hype. He's talking about players from anywhere in the draft that flashed exciting potential for years but never fully grasped it.

Jerramy Stevens and Anthony Simmons are probably the two most obvious choices for this (If Aaron Curry showed flashes of potential I could count them on one hand. He was terrible and I didn't think much of him before the 2009 draft either). I'm not ashamed to say that I had a pretty big mancrush on both Stevens and Simmons back in the day. They could ball- when they wanted to.

One more I'd add is Darryl Tapp. Dude just knew how to create pressure, but he could never harness that into production. It drove us Tapp defenders crazy having to cover for him year after year after year thinking that next year would be the year he'd finally turn those 35 pressures into a 10 sack season. Nope.

 

[GCrow]

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[GCrow]

Don't really care for Jerramy Stevens at all, as the dude is arguably the biggest piece of crap in the world.