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10 biggest Heisman busts of the last 25 years

By Cody Williams

TALLAHASSEE, FL - NOVEMBER 29, 2008: Tim Tebow, #15 quarterback of the University of Florida Gators football team celebrates after a big play during the game against the Florida State Seminoles at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida on November 29, 2008. The Gators won 45-15. (Photo by Jim Burgess/University of Florida/Collegiate Images/Getty Images)
TALLAHASSEE, FL - NOVEMBER 29, 2008: Tim Tebow, #15 quarterback of the University of Florida Gators football team celebrates after a big play during the game against the Florida State Seminoles at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Florida on November 29, 2008. The Gators won 45-15. (Photo by Jim Burgess/University of Florida/Collegiate Images/Getty Images) /
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GAINESVILLE, FL – NOVEMBER 16: Quaterback Danny Wuerffel #7 of the Florida Gators walks on the field during an NCAA game against the South Carolina Gamecocks on November 16, 1996 at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida. The Gators defeated the Gamecocks 52-25. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
GAINESVILLE, FL – NOVEMBER 16: Quaterback Danny Wuerffel #7 of the Florida Gators walks on the field during an NCAA game against the South Carolina Gamecocks on November 16, 1996 at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesville, Florida. The Gators defeated the Gamecocks 52-25. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images) /

3. Danny Wuerffel, QB, Florida (1996)

During the glory days of the Florida Gators under Steve Spurrier, there were many tremendous talents that passed through Gainesville. However, few players were as All-American in every sense of the phrase as quarterback Danny Wuerffel. He finished third in the Heisman Trophy voting in the 1995 season after a great campaign, but followed that up with a senior campaign that was truly spectacular as he helped lead the Gators to a National Championship.

In that season, Wuerffel played in 12 games as he threw for 3,625 yards, 39 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. Sure, his completion rate was the lowest of his college career, but his other numbers were so staggeringly good that he was impossible to ignore — especially given the success of the team and offense he was at the helm of. That led to him winning the award, but not necessarily to him being a high draft pick.

Wuerffel fell to the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft before being nabbed by the New Orleans Saints. He spent three seasons in the Big Easy, but started only six total games and finished with a 4-6 record and with only a 48.8 percent completion rate, nine touchdowns and a massively high 16 interceptions overall. After a stop in NFL Europa, he played in one game for both the Packers and Bears before a season with the Redskins, who Spurrier was the coach of by that point.

That season was the best of his career, but was still pedestrian at best as he was let go after the year and never saw the NFL again.

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