Top Ten Chicago Draft Busts

We have compiled a list of the top 10 draft busts in Chicago history of the last 20 years. Enjoy!

10. Mikhail Yakubov/ Pavel Vorobiev

We filled our hockey quota with this dynamic Russian duo. Picked 10th and 11th in the 2000 draft, these "studs" played a combine four seasons, and also combined for a whooping 12 goals during their "lengthy" stay in Hawk's uniforms.

9. Cubs 2002 1st Round Picks

Jim Hendry, deciding he had an unfair advantage with four first-rounders, decided to level the playing field by selecting four pitchers I don't think he had even heard of.

8. Rashaan Salaam

Salaam's best season was his rookie year when he rushed for a respectable 10 touchdowns and 1074 yards. But even then he fumbled 10 times, and it was downhill from there.

7. Mark Prior

The man worth the most discussion on this list, Prior had more hype than ANY draftee on our ranking. This injury plagued phenom won more than 12 games only once in Cubbie blue. Nobody fell further from his post than #22.

6. David Terrell

This Terrell reminds us a lot of another Terrell we know. Well except that the other one is a better smack-talker AND could actually play football. This former Wolverine great did a whole lot of nothing despite supposedly being a big-time draft pick. In reality however, this guy just had a big-time ego.

5. Marcus Fizer

The 4th overall pick of the 2000 draft epitomized the lowest of lows of the Bulls dark ages. Fizer, who spent four miserable seasons in Chicago, before bouncing between the D-League and the Hornets, is now playing ball in Europe. This dudes best chance at getting noticed again is by slightly modifying the spelling of his name and starting to advertise on male enhancement commercials.

4. Joe Borchard

How many years did South-Side Nation hear that this was Joe’s year? The guy received what was at the time, the largest rookie signing bonus of all time. Which would have been worth it, had the Sox paid him per foot of that one tape-measure home run that has yet to land. Unfortunately, even that home run was probably in a losing effort, as was Borchard’s career.

3. Curtis Enis

Drafted despite the signing of tailback Edgar Bennett, (a childhood favorite) this was doomed from the start. In a coin-flip decision, it looks like not signing Randy Moss was the best move though, because he missed breakfast during a Chicago visit weeks before the draft.

2. Jay Williams

I think everyone thought Jay Williams was smarter than that. The highly touted Duke grad decides to be a bad-ass, buy a motorcycle he can’t control, and permanently Kellen Winslow-ed his way out of basketball. In Jay’s defense, it was one sick bike.

1. Cade McNown

I will never forget listening to the radio, hearing how ecstatic a Bear’s fan was after watching then-rookie Cade throw for 300 yards and four touchdowns by explaining him as “The savior sent from God.” This genius probably should have waited a year to make that statement, because that’s how much longer he would be a Bear.

Here are a few guys who just missed our cut:

Michael Haynes

Corey Patterson

Brian Anderson

Kerry Wood

Luis Montanez