Why did the Raiders draft Jamarcus Russell? why did Al Davis think he was going to be a star, their franchise QB?

just bringing this up because, Jamarcus Russell is the reason why the rookie contract scale exists, he was overpaid there, he got paid a lot for being lazy.

That contract hurt the team, franchise for a bit. His rookie deal was 61 million. Average of 10 mil a year. And the salary cap was only like 100 mil. To put that into perspective Ben, Eli, Brady, Brees, McNair and Culpepper were all making less than him.

I believe even Matt Millen advised Al Davis to not draft him, even Lane Kiffin was against drafting him.

Anonymous2020-03-03T16:31:54Z

No one could tell Davis anything. He once used a first round draft pick to draft a P and another year a K.

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?2020-03-03T14:08:02Z

Because his scouts bought into the hype and that's not uncommon. Brian Bozworth is another classic example of this. Scouts bought into the hype, but as a player he was pure garbage.

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M. Diego2020-03-03T10:09:04Z

Hindsight is 20/20, he was a big QB with a huge arm and moved pretty well for a guy of size. You can still google scouting reports calling him the best prospect.

It didn’t help the rest of the QB class was horrible. The best is a coin toss between Trent Edwards and Drew Stanton, Kevin Kolb is not too far behind.

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terry v2020-03-02T13:02:54Z

Al Davis was not the genius that he was back in the 70s.It was clear to all Russell was not going to be good in the NFL.But when Al had a thought in his head no one could change his mind.

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Anonymous2020-03-02T12:42:30Z

They did cause they felt he was a good player at a good price.

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Why did the Raiders draft Jamarcus Russell? why did Al Davis think he was going to be a star, their franchise QB?

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