BUSTED!
“Reportin’ live from the booth / I’m killin’ these b*tches, Young Wayne Carruth.” — Lil’ Wayne on “New Cash Money,” off Da Drought 3
Former Carolina Panthers wide receiver Rae Carruth
Enjoyed this piece that Yahoo! Sports did on the biggest first round busts in the history of the NFL Draft. Even if you don’t like football (or sports), it’s interesting to see how some folks who are projected so highly early on in their careers end up going nowhere essentially (at least in that field). Don’t believe the hype!
I point out the Lil’ Wayne line above ‘cause it’s a direct reference to #27 on the list: Rae Carruth. It’s not the first Carruth reference I’ve heard by any means (everyone from Joe Budden to Ras Kass has namedropped him, too), but I still wonder why, no matter how dope they think the metaphor is, rappers would want to compare themselves to a football player who plotted to have his girlfriend and unborn child murdered and was found by FBI agents hiding in the trunk of a car. I mean, really? To this day, when I think Carolina Panthers, I think Rae Carruth. So it’s definitely still a blemish on that franchise. I’d like to say, ‘Ah, that’s just Wayne being Wayne,’ but Carruth seems like one dude that not even he would want to be compared to.
Anyway, I have to agree with the writer and go one step further by saying that Carruth, though low on the list, is easily the worst pick ever in the first round of the NFL Draft. There have been bigger busts talent-wise, but this case was a nightmare. And to think, we’re worried about 3 guys this year (including highly, highly touted wide receiver Calvin Johnson) who admitted to, at one time in their lives, smoking marijuana?
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