Back in 2007, the Oakland Raiders drafted JaMarcus Russell with the first overall pick in the NFL draft, and he would go on to cement his name as one of the biggest busts in league history. Within just three seasons, the young quarterback was out of the league.
There are plenty of horror stories to have emerged from Russell’s brief NFL tenure, about how he would report to camp overweight and so on, but a story shared by former NFLer and current NFL analyst David Diehl portrays Russell’s career in a genuinely shocking light.
It appears that the Raiders, who held doubts that Russell was actually watching his assigned tapes for film study, pulled the old switcheroo on him!
As a totally unrelated side note, Russell was sacked 70 times across 31 career games.
Unfortunately, things haven’t gotten much better for the Raiders since, apart from a lone playoff appearance in 2016. Just this weekend, they were torched by 49ers third-string quarterback Nick Mullens, who had himself such a game against Oakland that he got verified on Twitter mid-game.
