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Vince Young

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After his transcendent performance in the 2006 Rose Bowl, in which he won the MVP award in what many consider to be the greatest college football game ever played, Vince Young followed it up with a brilliant rookie season in the NFL, winning the rookie of the year award and being named to the Pro Bowl.

But all that fame eventually got to Young’s head, and thanks to a combination of immaturity, too much partying, too little focus on football, and the continued coaching negligence of Jeff Fisher, Young never really built on his stellar rookie season nor fulfilled all the promise we believed he held.