re: Biggest "Chosen One" failure

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I mean I get it, but when you weren't even drafter #1 overall, you can't really compare to others that have been mentioned in this thread.

It isn't like he was a high schooler who went #2, this was a guy who everyone saw for 3 years and the Texans still decided Mario Williams was a more important piece.

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I don't think you quite remember all the hype that he was getting 24/7 on ESPN. They might as well have renamed their station ESCN for a good 2-3 years. They had already put Reggie in the Hall before he even declared for the draft, every high school running back after his freshman season was being compared to him for the next 5 seasons.

Yeah I get that ESPN hyped up Freddy Adu as the next big thing in soccer, but that hype was nowhere near what Bush had. I remember people openly laughing at and mocking the Texans when they picked Mario. Hell some were even doing it a year or two latter. Then reality sunk in.