30 biggest NFL Draft busts of all time

25. Biggest NFL Draft busts of all-time – New York Giants OT Ereck Flowers

Whiffing on an offensive tackle in the top ten can set a line back for years. The New York Giants learned this the hard way when they took Ereck Flowers with the ninth overall pick in the 2015 draft out of Miami.

Despite his tremendous collegiate accolades, Flowers never lived up to the hype in New York, giving up a ridiculous 169 pressures at left tackle, the most of any tackle in the league since 2015. The pressure of playing in New York also was tough for Flowers, who was accused of quitting on his team by former teammate and NFL analyst Geoff Schwartz.

The Giants moved Flowers to right tackle in 2018 and eventually benched him for Chad Wheeler, a move that led to his release. Flowers bounced around the league after that, kicking inside for Jacksonville and Miami before landing on his feet as a starting guard for the Washington Football Team.

The fact that Flowers did manage to find a second act as an interior lineman does keep him from going too high on this list. Flowers was a flop in New York, however, and his failure played a big role in the degradation of the Giants’ offensive line at the end of Eli Manning’s career.