Bust #3: Tim Tebow (2007)
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There may not be a more legendary Heisman Trophy winner since the turn of the century, thanks to Tim Tebow’s speech that included the line: “You will never see any player in the entire country play as hard as I will play the rest of the season.” That season, Tebow not only led his University of Florid Gators to a National Championship win, but became the first sophomore to ever win the trophy.
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Yet despite every NFL scout and draft analyst worth their salt saying that Tim Tebow wasn’t meant to be an NFL quarterback, the Denver Broncos selected Tebow with the 25th overall pick. Just two years later, the Broncos traded away the largely ineffective Tebow, and he only threw eight NFL attempts over the remainder of his very brief career.
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