NFL Draft: Top Ten Denver Broncos Draft Busts - #8 George Foster

First, I am not going to debate if Foster belongs in the top 10. I can understand how using certain criteria he could be placed in the top 10. The problem with this pick is there was no way of knowing this would be a bad pick. Anyone who has played/coached the offensive line KNOWS Foster had ELITE F-ING TALENT. I remember one play on the goal line where he stuck a shoulder into a defensive tackle and drove him, literally, off the ball 4 yards. For those who don’t know doing this to a quality defensive tackle, well, it just does not happen. I almost wept as I saw the play. Foster also had incredible feet for his size and excellent strength.

For some reason Foster did not want put in the required work to go from elite talent to elite player. There was NOTHING in his background that indicated this would be his problem. This was a great pick from a talent stand point and, people forget, if it had not been for an injury to his wrist before the draft he may have gone higher.

Any discussion of Foster being a bust that does not discuss that he had elite talent is very incomplete. I have not seen the compete list, of course, but the number 10 pick was a bad one. There are way worse picks in bronco history and sure as hell are more than 10 of them than wasting a second round pick on a bust. The number 10 pick and this, make me wonder, if there is much more emphasis being placed on shanny’s tenure than over the entire history. Just for reference, Phonz was a FAR WORSE PICK, than Paul at #10. We gave up a mid first round pick for Phonz and got nothing for him. Unless he is on the list, tell me how he is not a worse pick them both Foster and Paul. As much of a bust as Foster was given his draft selection at 8 and lack of a long and productive career, he at least started games for the broncos, as opposed to the phonz.

A guy who started over 40 games for us through multiple winning seasons was one of our top-10 busts? Really? It seems like there has to be worse than that from the 60s/70s/80s/90s…. to me this smacks of short timeframe narrow vision.

Was he a good pick? no…. was he one of the 10worst in franchise history? I truly doubt it.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the list.

and a quality one at that. He did not just have elite college talent, he had elite nfl talent, but did not use it.

I wanted either him or Kwame Harris of Stanford because OT was Denver’s biggest need. Little did I know, the Foster pick would be the start of one of the worst, if not the worst, Bronco drafts in history.

A bigger bust at OT that Denver had, though, was in 1979 when they took Kelvin Clark from Nebraska over OT Kent Hill of Georgia Tech, who went on to be an All-Pro with the Rams while Clark barely saw the field in Denver in three years.

Repeating the same mistakes expecting different results. Reaching for players, drafting injured players, Shannahan, Mcd had aproblem with this. Everybody makes mistakes, but it’s a bad habit. But Foster actually played a little