Worst Bills Player of all time?

[dgrochester55]

The least talented player to start a game that I can remember was Justin Rogers at CB. During a game against the Jets where they gave up around 300 yards passing, Rogers was responsible for something like 260 of them. I would not answer him as worst of all time though because he was a 7th round pick in a starting role because of multiple injuries. Joe Dufek and Bruce Mathison at QB between Ferguson and Kelly could also be considered here.

 

My choice for worst player would have to be Aaron Maybin. Some players like Peterman, Bennie Anderson and JP Losman at least played well enough to earn and extended starting role at some point. Others like Justin Rogers, Keith Ellison and Jeff Tuel were Practice Squad caliber players at best thrust into a starting role.

 

Maybin was a first round draft pick who could not even get on the field. I forgot where i heard it, but it was understood that had he not been their first rounder, than he would have likely been cut in the first season.  He was not only bad, but had a poor attitude and work ethic. When you consider how much of a need DE was and how he could not see the field on a defense that was giving up 30-40 points a game nearly every week, that makes this the clear obvious choice in my opinion.

Edited February 14 by dgrochester55

[Straight Hucklebuck]

3 minutes ago, dgrochester55 said:

The least talented player to start a game that I can remember was Justin Rogers at CB. During a game against the Jets where they gave up around 300 yards passing, Rogers was responsible for something like 260 of them. I would not answer him as worst of all time though because he was a 7th round pick thrust into a starting role because of multiple injuries.

 

My choice would have to be Aaron Maybin. Some players like Peterman, Bennie Anderson and JP Losman at least played well enough to earn a start at some point. Others like Justin Rogers, Keith Ellison and Jeff Tuel were Practice Squad caliber players at best thrust into a starting role.

 

Maybin was a first round draft pick who could not even get on the field. I forgot where i heard it, but it was understood that had he not been their first rounder, than he would have likely been cut in the first season.  He was not only bad, but had a poor attitude and work ethic. When you consider how much of a need DE was and how he could not see the field on a defense that was giving up 30-40 points a game nearly every week makes this the clear obvious choice in my opinion.

The Brian Orakpo draft with the picture of him working out with a chain. That's where most Bills fans were. 

[DeltaDigital]

its Aaron Maybin. and it's not close. 

[Captain Hindsight]

49 minutes ago, Philly McButterpants said:

A lot of this has devolved into worst draft pick ( and holy crap, there are a lot of those to choose from).

Hard to argue with Aaron Maybin. Totally useless “player.”

 

One of my most hated players and my nominee is Shaud Williams. Malarkey loved this guy as a 3rd down back. Dude had no business being on the field with actual football players. 

The Shaud Williams 3rd and long draw play was legendary

[Ralonzo]

12 hours ago, finn said:

How about Marcel Dareus? If you want to consider "worst" to be the worst considering where he was picked, you can make an argument for Dareus, who was just a warm body when it came down to it. Third pick of the 2011 draft, followed immediately by three future Hall of Fame players: AJ Green, Patrick Peterson, and Julio Jones.

 

And you could probably top that with Walt Patulski and Tom Cousineau... although in that era the Nebraska Bobbsey Twins Bob Nelson and Tom Ruud as an R1+R2 package were poison... they both immediately staged a holdout, and when they finally came in they were unplayable from the get-go.

 

Say what you will about Bobby Hart, by the time he was released Kromer had coached him up to near serviceability.

[I'm Spartacus]

12 hours ago, jahnyc said:

For first round picks, Erik Flowers and Booker Moore were really bad.

Booker Moore sucked, but I'll give him a small pass. He contracted Guillain-Barre Syndrome which is a muscular disease.

I'll give a bad player toss in of Joey Lumpkin while I'm at it.

[Ralonzo]

1 hour ago, chris heff said:

OJ Simpson, he murdered two people.

 

Getting busted doesn't mean you were a bust...

[MrEpsYtown]

It's all the misses at QB imo. JP, Trent, EJ....those misses just cost the team so much over the years. 

 

In terms of guys who had no business being on the field? Some of my most memorable are

 

Aaron Maybin

Erik Flowers

Torrell Troup

Eddie Robinson

Keith Ellison

Colin Brown

Mark Anderson

Cidi Ahanotu

Melvin Fowler

Mansfield Wrotto

Marques Sullivan

[CSBill]

Aaron Maybin

[kickedface]

lots of maybin hate. i'm guessing people don't remember maybin mayhem. the dude was dropping hits. 

[Southern McButterpants.]

Lots of mentions of Torell Troupe. Didn’t he suffer a pretty debilitating back injury? Can’t fault a guy for that. 

[Steve O]

4 minutes ago, Philly McButterpants said:

Lots of mentions of Torell Troupe. Didn’t he suffer a pretty debilitating back injury? Can’t fault a guy for that. 

Yup. Ironically we passed on Gronk because of a back issue. Troup's back is what kept him from seeing any game time after his second year.

[NoName]

Erik Flowers or Billy Joe Hobert

[BMWR100RT]

Leodis McKelvin used to drive me nuts. 

[oldmanfan]

4 hours ago, CoudyBills said:

We aren't all old men, old man.  😁

True.  That’s why the young folk should refrain from “all time” lists!

[VaMilBill]

17 hours ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:

Ed Wang was one of the worst draft picks I’ve ever seen this team make.

 

Nate Peterman for sure.

 

Another Buddy Nix era player Duke Williams was terrible.

 

Torell Troupe. 

Loved that lineman trio of Wood, Wang, Levitre

 

Also, loved when we called Wang vs Maybin the Movable Force vs the Stoppable Object. 
 

but I agree on troupe. He was God-awful. What’s worse is Gronk was selected only a few draft picks later. 
 

I don’t think Elam is there. Elam has at least made some important plays for us over the years against Pittsburgh last year and KC last year as well. He was also ok against the Lions this year. 

[Heavy Kevi]

2 hours ago, Straight Hucklebuck said:

The Brian Orakpo draft with the picture of him working out with a chain. That's where most Bills fans were. 

 

2 hours ago, DeltaDigital said:

its Aaron Maybin. and it's not close. 

 

Aaron Maybin immediately belongs on the list because he was a high draft pick and basically even every fan knew what the right pick was, but Bills still drafted the bust instead for one reason or another🤷🏻‍♂️. Orakpo was such an obviously better player/pick

 

A couple other all time obvious-even-to-casual-fans drafting blunders:

-James Hardy over Desean Jackson

-Cody Ford over DK Metcalf

-Torrell Troupe over Rob Gronkowski

[Mark Vader]

3 hours ago, BillsPride12 said:

Man reading through this thread gives me PTSD...those drought years were something else

 

I'll add Bennie tub of goo Anderson as my contribution 

And there are people here who think that the period we are in right now is actually WORSE than the drought years. TBD is funny.

[RobbRiddick]

The truth is it's probably some undrafted guy we never even saw play. But if you're going by production Vs draft stock or financial investment I'd have to say Maybin simply because they got NOTHING out of him. Literally not a single sack which is insane. Imagine getting a WR in the first round, giving him multiple games and he never gets a catch, or a QB who starts several games and never gets a TD pass (even Peterman threw some TDs). 

 

Just checked his stats and he ended his Bills career with 23 tackles and zero sacks. That's as the 11th pick overall, whose contract guaranteed him 15 million! That's over 650,000 dollars a tackle. Nice work if you can get it!

 

He seems happy doing his art now so credit him for getting what he could and then getting out pretty quickly with his brain intact and his body healthy.

[ColoradoBills]

10 hours ago, BigDingus said:

I can't remember every practice squad or 3rd stringer that ever played for the team, so I'm just going off biggest disappointments in terms of draft selection.

 

1. Aaron Maybin

2. Kaiir Elam

3. Mike Williams

4. Erik Flowers

5. Perry Tuttle

 

Walt Patulski.  Overall #1 pick in the 1972 draft.