NFL Draft: Biggest bust from each franchise’s history

Biggest NFL Draft bust from Green Bay Packers history: Rich Campbell, QB

Stats: 

• 386 passing yards
• 3 touchdowns
• 9 interceptions
• 45.6 completion perentage

The Green Bay Packers have had roughly three decades of great quarterback play. With Hall of Famer Brett Favre carving up defenses for roughly 20 years and Aaron Rodgers doing the same for roughly half of that time, it’s easy to forget that the Packers haven’t always had it easy at the quarterback position.

Long before Favre or Rodgers were throwing darts down the field, Rich Campbell was chucking the ball into the dirt. At one point though, he appeared to be the next big thing in the league.

Campbell attended California college and put up ridiculously accurate passing numbers. In 1980, Campbell incredibly completed 70.7 percent of his passes. While those numbers are somewhat attainable in today’s game, back in the late 70s and early 80s, that was pretty much impossible.

In desperate need of a signal-caller, the Packers took Campbell with the sixth overall pick in the 1981 draft.

Struggle would be an understatement to explain Campbell’s time in the league as he never started a single game during his four years in Green Bay. In total, he would appear in just seven games and threw three touchdowns and nine interceptions. While the Packers have done quite well for themselves since then, Campbell set them back a few years.