Ranking WWE's First Ever NXT Class - From Worst To Best

50. Tac

NXT Roster 2012
WWE

Brandon "Tac" Carter has the look, name and sporting pedigree of a guy that would have probably gone a little further had Vince McMahon or at least one of the snivelling yes-men he surrounded himself with caught sight of him in the Gorilla position. Unfortunately for the rookie, he never made it that far. 

With an NFL career that included stints with the New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys, Carter is somebody that would probably stand a better chance getting in through the Next In Line pathway rather than FCW's jagged and crooked method. 

Instead, he was an early-2013 release story, having tweeted-and-deleted various notes about the "TAC Revolution" WWE "deserved", referring to some of his (now substantially more famous and successful) colleagues as "generic cookie cutter wrestlers". He was half right of course, partocularly during the era he was referring to, but the 50% that got it wrong saw the door.

 
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