QB
Robert Griffin III (Dr. Light's Robots)
QB Rank: 17
Overall Rank: 46
3202 Passing Yards, 16 Passing TD's, 12 INT, 489 Rushing Yards, 4 Fumbles lost, 206 Fantasy Points
Acquired: 6th Round (70th Overall)
After such a successful rookie season last year, the expectations were super high Griffin would have an encore performance even despite RGIII coming off a major injury. He never really got it going. His sporadic performances had Matt use in a QB carousel with Michael Vick and for a game Nick Foles, so even when he had decent games, Matt didn't use him. When he finally settled on Griffin as his QB, he was flat out dreadful. In fact, his 4.5 points in Week 12 cost Matt a shot at the playoffs as he lost to Drew by 1 point. Had he won that game, he would've made the playoffs. Griffin's big advantage was supposed to be his running game but he didn't score one rushing TD. His play was so bad he was benched the final 3 games of the season for Kirk Cousins. He'll probably be heavily discounted and be primed for a bounce back season next year, but for this year it was nothing but disaster. When Ryan Tannehill and Alex Smith are better fantasy options, you know you've had it rough.
WR
Victor Cruz (Shock The Monkey)
WR Rank-26
Overall Rank-81
73 Receptions, 998 Receiving Yards, 4 Receiving TD's, 1 Fumble Lost, 151.5 Fantasy Points
Acquired: 3rd Round (32nd Overall)
This is the 2nd straight year Cruz makes the Dud Team, but at least this season the stats back it up even more. The Giants offense as a whole was just so pathetically bad, so yes, some of this falls on Eli Manning, but still when you're as talented as Victor Cruz, you should be able to overcome bad QB play (Just look at Josh Gordon, who had Brian Hoyer, Jason Campbell, and Brandon Weeden throwing to him all season). He was the 13th receiver taken off the board, and was Mark's #1 receiver. He had only 4 TD's all season and 3 of those CAME IN WEEK 1!!! He scored his last TD in WEEK 4 and was done after that. He's Victor Cruz though, so you can't bench him. He helped attribute to Mark's 2nd half season slide and his days as a WR1 in fantasy have got to be considered over. Receivers that outperformed him? Marvin Jones, Brian Hartline, Michael Floyd, Riley Cooper, Julian Edelman..yeah not exactly ELITE options.
WR
Danny Amendola (I'm A Paul Heyman Guy)
WR Rank: 60
Overall Rank: 181
53 receptions, 624 Receiving Yards, 2 receiving TDs, 96.5 Fantasy Points
Acquired: 3rd Round (26th Overall)
Wes Welker he ain't. In fact, the Patriots had a Wes Welker replacement on the roster they just failed to realize it until Amendola..what a shock GOT HURT. Julian Edelman ended up as a top 25 receiver, while Amendola had a couple of good games, but for the most part was an absolute bust. Even his own teammate, little used Aaron Dobson, outranked him. 59 receivers outranked him. The 26th player taken? Drew whiffed majorly on this one. Andre Johnson and Vincent Jackson were still available in that round alone. He's a big reason that a team that had an Adrian Peterson/Reggie Bush backfield failed to reach the playoffs.
WR
Roddy White (Dr. Light's Robots)
WR Rank: 61
Overall Rank: 188
55 Receptions, 620 Receiving Yards, 2 Receiving TD's, 1 Fumble Lost, 94.5 Fantasy Points
Acquired: 3rd Round (27th Overall)
Man the 3rd round was brutal for wide receivers. Throw in Randall Cobb was suffered an injury that wiped out most of his fantasy season and it was just a horrible round for drafting wide receivers. Roddy White is a warrior, but unfortunately being a warrior is the biggest reason that he was a bust. White played through numerous injuries but was wildly ineffective. It took him 5 outright terrible games, before he came to grips that he needed to take some time off to recover. He missed 3 games, and took another 3 games after that to finally look close to 100%. Again, because of the name, Matt kept plugging him in his lineup every week he was active. White's been pretty good the last few weeks, but it's too little too late as Matt failed to make the playoffs. It really sucks to have a guy like White on your roster, as you never want to bench him for the chance he just explodes. Unfortunately, Matt would've been just fine had he gone with other options all those weeks.
RB
C.J. Spiller (Next!!!!)
RB Rank: 31
Overall Rank: 97
822 Rushing Yards, 2 Rushing TD's, 28 Receptions, 157 Receiving Yards, 1 Fumble Lost, 111 Points
Acquired: 1st Round (1st Overall)
Worst #1 Pick EVER MADE. With the entire league for his choosing, the defending champion decided to go outside the box and take C.J. Spiller #1 overall. Over Adrian Peterson. Over Jamaal Charles. Over LeSean McCoy. It single-handedly CRUSHED his season and Leland never really recovered. Spiller was beyond pathetic all season and yes there was an "injury" but regardless, he wasn't even close to being the best running back on his own team. That would be old washed up FRED JACKSON, who Spiller could never shake off. At the time, Spiller was all hype. Experts salivated over what Spiller could do with a full workload (and to be fair, a full workload was promised by the head coach) considering what he did last year splitting time with Fred Jackson. It was the ultimate high risk/high reward pick. Unfortunately, there was no reward. 30 running backs finished with higher fantasy point totals. 30. Donald Brown. Andre Ellington. Ben Tate. Danny Woodhead. Rashard Mendenhall. Just a few of the less than inspiring names that were better than Spiller. Honestly though, this is probably league specific more than anything, cause there were a TON of disappointing 1st round running backs. They just didn't happen to go #1 overall like Spiller did. Is he even keepable? We'll find out next year, but there's no doubt this pick will live in infamy for a long time.
Trent Richardson (I'm A Paul Heyman Guy)
RB Rank: 34
Overall Rank: 111
538 Rushing Yards, 2 Rushing TD's, 33 Receptions, 299 Receiving Yards, 1 Receiving TD, 1 Fumble Lost, 106.5 Points
Acquired: 1st Round (9th Overall) By Eugene. Traded to Kenny for Chris Johnson and Kenbrell Thompkins. Waived by Kenny. Picked Up By Drew
This is was a horrible year for running backs. So many busts to go through. Some of them have to be mentioned. Ray Rice was BRUTALLY BAD, especially as the 5th overall pick of the draft. Arian Foster, the same, plus an injury ended his season. Doug Martin? Pathetic, even before a season ending injury. He had no excuse because both MIKE JAMES AND BOBBY RAINEY played better than he did before the injury. Steven Jackson? Bust for the most part. MJD, bust for a better part of the year. David Wilson and Lamar Miller? "Experts" were way off. Darren McFadden? Another injury plagued season. Outside of Ray Rice and Lamar Miller (and even Ray Rice had some injury problems) most of those running backs named had some sort of injury problem throughout the season. Not only that, but only David Wilson was on a non playoff team, and his season was cut very prematurely short due to injury. There was one running back drafted in the 1st round who was 100% healthy and just flat out SUCKED. Trent Richardson. Beyond horrible. If Spiller wasn't drafted where he was, there's no doubt Richardson would've been the worst draft pick ever. Richardson was even traded a better situation and SUCKED EVEN WORSE. DONALD BROWN...BEAT HIM OUT OF A STARTING JOB. DONALD BROWN, who was buried behind Vick Ballard and Ahmad Bradshaw beat out Trent Richardson for a starting job. Eugene traded him when he still was thought to have a little value, and made out like a bandit. Richardson was so god awful Kenny finally had enough and just flat out cut him. Had Donald Brown not suffered an injury, Richardson would've likely stayed on waivers the rest of the season. Drew picked him to play in the consolation bowl though. At least there still may be SOME upside with Spiller. Richardson is a bum and had no excuse. You know what's funny, last year I thought he would suck and I said so. It's good to know I was actually right all along.
TE-Rob Gronkowski (Shock The Monkey)
TE Rank: 14
Overall Rank: 112
39 Receptions, 592 Receiving Yards, 4 Receiving TD's, 99.5 Points
Acquired: 5th Round (49th Overall) By Leland. Traded to Mark for Jason Witten
Here's a somewhat controversial pick as he didn't "suck" but hear me out. Leland took yet another gamble by using a pretty high draft pick (49) to stash Gronk hoping that he would only miss a couple games at the most and then when he came back...BOOM, best tight end in the league. Well a couple of games turned into 6 and by the time Week 7 rolled around, Leland was already 1-5 and his season was basically over. Before he even used him in a game, Leland traded Gronk away to Mark for Jason Witten. At first, it looked like it was a great, shrewd move for Mark. He played in 6 1/2 games and 5 of those were great. Then he got hurt...AGAIN...for the season..AGAIN and now who knows if he'll be ready for the beginning of next season. Deja vu alllll over again. Will someone take such a high stakes gamble next season yet again??
Michael Wiley Dud Of The Year
C.J. Spiller (Next!!!)
Just because the magnitude of the it being the #1 pick and the impact it had on Leland's season.
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