Not every draft pick is going to live up to their potential. That’s just the nature of the beast. Every once in a while, you might even come up with a first-round draft pick who simply isn’t very good at all. The Pittsburgh Steelers have flirted with that a couple of times over the course of the past decade, certainly, enough to elect not to pick up the fifth-year options of two of them.
The most recent first-rounder to play under his fifth-year option, however, is coming into his own this year in Bud Dupree.