Brentson Buckner (1994-96)
Buckner was a second round pick who seemed to put more effort into running his mouth than he did into playing football. As a rookie, he was involved in the infamous Super Bowl rap video and he stupidly guaranteed a victory in the 1994 AFC Championship Game. While he did eventually become a starter on the defense, his attitude quickly wore on Bill Cowher. In April of 1997, the Steelers abruptly traded Buckner to Kansas City for a measly seventh-round draft choice and reportedly never even called Buckner to tell him about it.

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Keith Gary (1983-88)
The Steelers made Gary the 17th overall pick in the 1981 draft, but he was less than thrilled about the contract offer his new team was proposing, so he decided to sign with the Montreal Alouettes of the CFL instead. Montreal soon went into the tank thanks in part to Gary's disappointing play, and in 1983 he decided to finally play for the Steelers. His ensuing six season in Pittsburgh were just as bad, making Gary possibly the only player ever to cripple the pass rush of franchises in multiple pro football leagues.

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Nolan Harrison (1997-99)
You can take the man out of Oakland, but you can never take the Oakland Raiders out of the man. That was the case with Harrison, a lazy defensive lineman whom the Steelers signed as a free agent from the silver and black. The Steelers got the whole Raiders package as Harrison brought along their long tradition of brawling (he once started multiple fights during a scrimmage with the Redskins) and taking stupid penalties (including one that cost the Steelers a huge game during his first season in Pittsburgh).

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Aaron Jones (1988-92)
Yet another 1980's #1 draft pick who ended up being a huge bust. Jones was supposed to be a pass-rushing force, but he never was able to replicate his college glory. Ironically, the Steelers drafted John Jackson, Jones' teammate from Eastern Kentucky, in the 10th round that same year, and Jackson ended up being the much better pick!

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Darryl Sims (1985-86)
When Sims, the Steelers highly-touted first round pick in the 1985 draft, arrived at his first training camp, a member of the media asked him about his favorite color. Sims replied that his favorite color was "plaid". Do I really need to say anything more?

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Jeremy Staat (1998-00)
The 1998 draft saw the Steelers pick up two potential Hall of Famers in Alan Faneca and Hines Ward. Sandwiched in between those picks was Staat, a big d-lineman who never even cracked the starting lineup and was gone after three dismal seasons. Staat recently volunteered to serve in Iraq, which was both brave and extremely noble, so I just want to clarify that he makes the suck candidate list based purely on his playing career.

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Steven Conley (1996-98)
Conley was the Steelers' second overall selection in the 1996 draft and by his third season, big things were expected of him. In the summer of 1998, the Steelers released long-time star LB Greg Lloyd, opening up a possible starting job for Conley. The coaches talked him up when camp began, but by the end of the pre-season, Conley had been outplayed by Carlos Emmons (whom the Steelers had taken in the final round the year they selected Conley). The Steelers gave up and shipped him to Indianapolis in a trade.

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Alonzo Jackson (2003-04)
Bill Cowher had a long history of drafting guys who played defensive end in college and converting them to outside linebackers in the 3-4 defense. This worked well for guys like Jason Gildon and Joey Porter. It did not work so well for Zo Jackson, whom the Steelers burned a second pick on. Zo had a great opportunity to win a starting job in the summer of 2004 when Clark Haggans got hurt, but he was noticeably awful in the pre-season games and was reportedly struggling in practices as well. It was a Cowher experiment gone horribly wrong.

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Huey Richardson (1991)
Richardson was a pass rushing phenom at Florida, where he was an All-American and later inducted into their Hall of Fame. The Steelers thought they were getting their next great linebacker when they picked him up in the first round of the 1991 draft, but the coaches were soon horrified to learn that Richardson was a terrible football player. It's extremely rare when a second or third round pick gets cut after just one season, and it's downright historic when a first rounder can't make it to a sophomore year in the NFL. Congratulations Huey for setting the gold standard on that one!

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Todd Seabaugh (1984)
The Steelers do not retire jersey numbers, and it upset some fans when they gave Seabaugh, a first-day draft pick, Jack Ham's old number 59. When Seabaugh played in all of two games in his one and only NFL season, the Steelers decided to institute an unofficial policy of keeping certain numbers - like 12, 32, 58, 75, and of course, 59 - on the shelf so as not to disgrace any more of their legends.

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Richard Seigler (2006)
Seigler slips in as a late candidate thanks to the absurd events of the past month. Seigler allegedly worked part-time as a Las Vegas pimp while he was on the Steelers roster in 2006. That's right - the guy whose teammates nicknamed him "sleazy" may have been running a ring of prostitutes. Not surprisingly, the Steelers cut him.

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Ricardo Colclough (2004-present)
The Steelers traded up in the 2nd round of the draft to nab Colclough, and draft "experts" fell all over themselves talking about what a steal we got. Three years later, the team is still waiting for him to produce. In all fairness, the book on Colclough is not yet closed, but he made it in as a candidate for this team thanks in no small part to the Cincinnati game last year.

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Deon Figures (1993-96)
Figures was a #1 draft pick who was given ample opportunity to succeed. Starting CB DJ Johnson left before the 1994 season, and CB Rod Woodson missed nearly the entire 1995 season. Figures was unable to fill the void however. His career really went downhill after he got shot in the knee while driving thru LA in 1995. He was the victim of a drive-by shooting, although some fans (fairly or unfairly) questioned what Deon was doing in South Central at 3:00 in the morning. Regardless, what little skills he possessed were all but gone after that.

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Delton Hall (1987-91)
Desperate for cornerbacks, the Steelers selected Rod Woodson and Delton Hall with their first two picks of the 1987 draft. At first it looked as if Hall would be the more productive of the two. He had a great rookie season in which he intercepted three passes and was named the team's rookie of the year. Steelers fans even nicknamed him "Beltin Delton" because of the way he used to hit. But after that glorious rookie campaign, Beltin Delton turned into Smeltin Delton. He was continually victimized by quarterbacks, a fact that became even more noticeable as Woodson matured into a Hall of Famer.

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Alvoid Mays (1995)
When a team signs a veteran player as a backup, they expect to be getting insurance in case the starter at a certain position goes down with an injury. That is why the Steelers signed Mays in 1995 and why they thought they were in good hands after they lost their two starters from the previous season to injury. Instead Mays was completely ineffective, so much so that all-pro safety Carnell Lake had to move to CB just to be able to save the season!

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Hank Poteat (2000-02)
"Hank Poteat is the next Rod Woodson". I specifically remember saying those words when Poteat played at Pitt. Like Woodson, he was a great cover guy and a quality kick returner, but he also possessed that Woodson-like ability to single-handedly change games. Unfortunately, Poteat left those skills behind at college. He was an absolute bust for the Steelers. In the 2002 AFC Wild Card Playoffs against Cleveland, Poteat got torched so badly in the first quarter that defensive coordinator Tim Lewis had him blitz for much of the remainder of the game, figuring he had a better shot at disrupting a throw than preventing a catch.

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Scott Shields (1999-00)
Shields seemed like such an excellent second round draft pick. He was a big guy who would surely intimidate receivers thinking about trying to go over the middle. Things quickly went awry however. In one all-time lousy performance against Kevin Johnson and the Browns, Shields not only lost his job as a starter, but he also lost his job on defense altogether. Shields then one-upped himself by losing his place on special teams after he kept incurring costly penalties.

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Sammy Walker (1991-92)
Walker is best known for his epic meltdown in the 1992 AFC Divisional Playoffs. Pressed into starting due to injuries, Walker was continually smoked by Buffalo receivers Andre Reed and James Lofton. The Bills upset the Steelers in a 24-3 blowout, and it would end up being Walker's final game in Pittsburgh. Oddly enough, the cornerback many Steelers fans remember from that game was not Walker, but rather Richard Shelton. His drop of a Frank Reich pass would have been a sure pick 6 at a point in the game where the Steelers desperately needed a momentum swing.

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Dewayne Washington (1998-03)
Poor Dewayne. He took so much abuse from the fans. The cruelest moments for him came when the scoreboard operator at Heinz Field would run the pre-taped message of Washington advising fans not to throw objects on the field shortly after he had been burned for a touchdown, prompting some rather heated comments from the crowd. From the Carl Pickens fiasco in his first season here to the embarrassing stiff arm that ended his Steelers tenure and everything in between, Washington's Steeler career was one long extended "boooooo".

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Donnell Woolford (1997)
Woolford had been an all-pro CB with the Bears, so he seemed like a logical acquisition when he came to the Steelers via free agency to replace all-time great Rod Woodson. The problem was that whatever talent Woolford showed in the past was apparently left behind in Chicago. By the end of the season, he had gone from first to fifth on the CB depth chart! That is quite possibly the biggest roster drop ever. Not surprisingly, Woolford was waived the following off-season.

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Chris Gardocki (2004-06)
The Steelers inexplicably cut serviceable punter Josh Miller so that they could pick up an overpriced veteran who once flipped off Joey Porter during a game in Cleveland. Gardocki was terrible, and even his one "amazing" feat - the 16-year streak of never having a punt blocked - was exposed as a sham when he "sort of" had one blocked in 2005.

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Harry Newsome (1985-89)
Newsome was a "three step" punter. So unlike normal punters, he required one additional step before kicking the ball. That would be like having a baseball player who is a special "no glove" shortstop. In 1988, Three Step Harry shattered an NFL record by having six punts blocked in a single season. That was double the previous record!

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Brian Jackson
Better known as "The Impostor", Jackson thought it would be a good idea to impersonate Steelers quarterbacks Ben Roethlisberger and Brian St. Pierre in order to not only hook up with woman, but also to bilk them out of money. He would tell these poor girls that he played for the Steelers (which of course makes you a god in Pittsburgh), and then make up some story like how his bank accounts had been frozen in a messy divorce and he needed money. In 2006 he was charged with taking $3,200 from a woman who thought he was Jerame Tuman.

Freakish Bert
When the Steelers announced plans for celebrating their 75th season, they unveiled a new mascot who was obviously designed to frighten young children. This guy looks like Bert, only if Bert got fired from Sesame Street, gained a bunch of weight, was forced into working part-time in a steel mill, and became a drunk. Now I won't be able to enjoy games at Heinz Field next year because I'll constantly be looking over my shoulder to make sure this thing isn't sneaking up on me.