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Biggest draft busts in Giants history

The Giants took a big risk when they used their first-round pick on Looney, who had been kicked off the team at Oklahoma for punching a graduate assistant coach.

It backfired quickly, as Looney lasted only 25 days in Giants training camp (racking up more fines than the rest of the team combined had in the previous three season) before being traded to Baltimore.

He played for five teams in five seasons before washing out of football. Longtime NFL Films president Steve Sabol called Looney the most uncoachable player he had ever seen.

1965: Tucker Frederickson, RB, Auburn

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Fearful of getting into a bidding war with the AFL's Houston Oilers for the rights to a quarterback out of Alabama by the name of Joe Namath, the Giants used the first overall pick in the draft to select Frederickson, the SEC's MVP in 1965.