I’m reluctant to declare a young, touted player in any sport a bust, but especially so in the NFL.
I think we chronically underestimate how high the level of play is, how fast and vicious it is, and how it teeters on the impossible to absorb a playbook in your first or second season in the league to the point that you execute every call to the coaches’ satisfaction on game day.
Many young players somehow manage to make it look easy. It is so, so hard.
N’Keal Harry? Oh, that guy is a bust.
I don’t like saying this, because he occasionally drops clues — in between the dropped passes, misguided routes, and indifferent blocking — about what the Patriots saw in him when they used the 32d pick in the 2019 NFL Draft on him.