Tim Couch and Courtney Brown were unfairly singled out for special ridicule by USAToday in an article about 13 greatest draft busts and disappointments. Three Cleveland Browns (Couch, Brown and Trent Richardson) made the list. This isn’t fair and totally ignores the record of what happened to these talented players, both of whom had their careers cut short by injury.
In particular, Tim Couch was drafted in an impossible situation — recall he was the first overall pick for the expansion Browns of 1999 — and still led his team to the playoffs (Hello!