It’s not easy to obtain the first-overall draft pick. Unless you’re willing to give up a sultan’s ransom for it, you’re going to have to put in an awful lot of leg work to be so bad that you’re worse than everybody else in football in any given year.
And chances are, that’s not going to be a one-off, outlier year. Chances are, you’ve been bad for at least a couple of years, and you’ll be bad for a couple more years, at a minimum. One interesting ‘statistic’ that I saw recently really brings that point home.
Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow will be the first quarterback in NFL history to be drafted first overall and start in a conference finals within his first two seasons.