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Originally Posted by TroyF
They should bust once in awhile. Part of the NFL is Ryan Leaf, Tony Mandarich, Steve Emtman, Andre Wadsworth, Heath Schuler, and Bruce Pickens.
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Ugh. I always cringe when I see Emtman's name listed among draft busts. Maybe it's a semantics thing, and it's definitely influenced by me being a huge Husky fan, but I differentiate Emtman from guys like Leaf, Mandarich, Andre Ware, etc. in that Emtman's issue was injuries, not ability. He was having a very good rookie year before blowing out his knee, and might still have been an effective DT if he hadn't then blown out his other knee, and then the first one again.
In FOF terms, I see Emtman as a guy that lost his green and red bars after signficant injuries, not because multiple training camps revealed he was severely over-rated.