Here's their complete list: Best 1.Will be posted tomorrow, but it will be Rickey Jackson 2. William Roaf, La. Tech, offensive tackle, 1993, First round (no. 8 overall) 3. Marques Colston, Hofstra, wide receiver, 2006, Seventh round (No. 252 overall) 4. Pat Swilling, Georgia Tech, linebacker, 1986, Third round (No. 60 overall) 5. Deuce McAllister, Mississippi, running back, 2001, First round (No. 23 overall) 6. Archie Manning, quarterback, Mississippi, 1971, First round (No. 2 overall) 7. Morten Andersen, placekicker, Michigan State, 1982, Fourth round (No. 86 overall) 8. Jahri Evans, guard, Bloomsburg, 2006, Fourth round (No. 108 overall) 9. Eric Martin, wide receiver, LSU 1985, Seventh round (No. 179 overall) 10. Danny Abramowicz, wide receiver, Xavier, Ohio, 1967, 17th round (No. 420 overall) Worst 1. Russell Erxleben, Texas, punter/kicker, 1979, First round (no. 11 overall) 2. Shawn Knight, Brigham Young, defensive tackle, 1987, First round (no. 11 overall) 3. Johnathan Sullivan, Georgia, defensive tackle, 2003, First round (No. 6 overall) 4. Ricky Williams, running back, 1999, First round (No. 5 overall) 5. Joe Campbell, Maryland, defensive end, 1977, First round (No. 7 overall) 6. Larry Burton, wide receiver, Purdue, 1975, First round (No. 7 overall) 7. Les Kelley, fullback, Alabama, 1967, First round (No. 26 overall) 8. Royce Smith, guard, Georgia, 1972, First round (No. 8 overall) 9. Kevin Hardy, defensive tackle, Notre Dame, 1968, First round (No. 7 overall) 10. Alex Molden, cornerback, Oregon, 1996, First round (No. 11 overall) Williams, as you see, was in the top five, pretty much for the reason you stated. The really sorry thing about his situation was that they didn't "have to" give up as much as they did. The Rams had given up a number 2 and number 4 for Marshall Faulk earlier that off-season, and the Saints probably could have pulled off the swap of number ones (our 24, I believe it was, for the Redskins' 5) for our number one the following year, and maybe our 3 or 4. But Mike Ditka, who as usual couldn't either control his mouth or resist an ESPN microphone, publicly annointed Williams as the Muhammed Ali of running backs and announced that the Saints would gladly give up their whole draft for him. Billy Kuharick, not the sharpest tool in the GM shed to begin with, had his hands tied from that moment. There was no way to negotiate a decent deal, and Williams had to suffer the consequences of absolutely unreachable expectations, not to mention the way over-the-top hype that came along with the territory Ditka had staked out for him. The failure of Williams (as a Saint; with the Dolphins, he's outlasted and outproduced Deuce McAllister) is much more Ditka's fault than Ricky's, IMO.
