JaMarcus Russell will go down as one of the biggest busts in NFL Draft history, as the 2007 Number One Overall Pick grabbed a huge contract, and repaid the Raider's faith with absolutely nothing. His draft class was brimming with talent all across the field, including: Adrian Peterson, Darrelle Revis and Megatron himself, Calvin Johnson, yet the Raiders handed Russell a lucrative $68 million deal to be paid over six years. Russell edged just over the 4,000 passing yards mark after three miserable seasons in Oakland, before being released, and hasn't found a team since then. He took home around $39 million for achieving nothing, which is staggering, but to put that into perspective, it took Aaron Rogers more than double that length of time to make that amount of money.
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