10 biggest NFL draft busts in Auburn football history
By Josh Yourish
2. No. 1 overall. player. 44. 1988. . Aundray Bruce, LB. Aundray Bruce, LB. Aundray Bruce.
There have been quite a few No. 1 overall picks to come out of Auburn. Four in the NFL plus Ken Rice who was the No. 1 overall pick in 1961 to Buffalo in the AFL. Bruce, despite playing in the NFL for 11 years had the second most disappointing career on the list. Frederickson can blame injuries, but Bruce was just mediocre, which is far from the expectations of the first selection.
Bruce started 15 games as a rookie and 13 in Year 2, racking up 70 and 66 tackles respectively, but tailed off from there. In 1990, he played all 16 games, but started only three and finished with 40 tackles. Then in 1991, he actually switched his number from 93 to 83 and caught one pass as a tight end.
After his four years in Atlanta, he was signed by the Raiders as a linebacker and played the next seven years between LA and Oakland as a Raider. He never started more than four games in a given year for the Raiders and his career ended with just 275 tackles and 32 sacks in 151 games with 40 starts.