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Dominique Easley, 1st-round draft bust: All the talent to be a star, but failed to put it on the field

The first time I watched Dominique Easley play in a game was in a YouTube cut-up of his game film with the Florida Gators about a month before the 2014 NFL Draft. Mike Mayock named him as a guy that made sense for the New England Patriots in the first round.

At the time, Easley was a weird defensive end/tackle tweener prospect that was coming off of his second season-ending ACL injury in college. And when he was healthy, he could do stuff like this:

Easley did stuff like that all.