[1] Meanwhile, the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL), with Mike Ditka as head coach, had two consecutive seasons with a 6–10 record. [3], Leading up to the 1999 NFL Draft, Ditka decided that he wanted Williams to play for the Saints. Then again, the Saints' No. “A generational trade,” Casserly called it. Bailey played 10 of his 15 seasons in a 15-year career for Denver. Except New Orleans didn’t have a second-round pick that year. While the NFL draft may seem like a bunch of men standing around, every football fan knows that it can make or break your franchise. It's been 20 years since the Saints traded their entire draft for Ricky Williams. Ricky Williams, a running back, played college football for the Texas Longhorns of the University of Texas at Austin. [6], The Saints traded their first round, third round, fourth round, fifth round, sixth round, and seventh round picks in the 1999 NFL Draft, and their first-round and third-round picks from the 2000 NFL Draft to the Washington Redskins for the fifth overall pick of the 1999 NFL Draft. This trade has remained in the minds of those at Redskins Park. Surely the Saints could have found a way to get Williams for less. The Saints went 3-13, and Ditka was fired. Nope, the Bengals said. “You realize I never would have traded you,” Casserly said. Williams’ shyness bordered on the weird. [19] Williams had a disappointing rookie season, due to various injuries that limited him to 884 rushing yards and two touchdowns in 12 games,[20] as well as alienating teammates through his off-field behavior. Interesting who is 32nd: Clinton Portis. The team had just come off their second-straight 6-10 season, and picking 12th overall wasn’t going to cut it. The Redskins acquired Bailey and LaVar Arrington. I went into New Orleans to interview him, and though pleasant enough, he insisted on doing the interview with his helmet on, with the dark shield covering his face. Just ask the New Orleans Saints and Ricky Williams about that. [1], With limited leverage, Saints' general manager Bill Kuharich began discussing trades with the teams holding the first five selections. While the NFL has seen plenty of bad trades—like the Minnesota Vikings giving up a king’s ransom for Herschel Walker—the Ricky Williams deal hit the trifecta. pic.twitter.com/p3DXwZ2MMR. Peter King looks back at the deal as well as the deals that WEREN'T made. Williams didn't live up to expectations in New Orleans, but the Saints did manage to get two first-rounders from the Dolphins in a trade in 2002. The Cowboys traded running back Herschel Walker along with three draft choices (a third and 10th-round choice in 1990 and a third-round choice in 1991) to the Vikings. 12 spot in the 1999 draft to the No. He was told he’d be doing the press conference from a podium. 5 and draft the Heisman Trophy winner from Texas. He got fired at the end of the year after new owner Dan Snyder took over. (Man, why not ask for Ditka’s first-born too?) He finished with 10,009 rushing yards in 11 seasons, 31st on the all-time rushing list. “If you really want the player, you’ve got to take a step back and take the emotion out of it,” he said. The Jacksonville Jaguars traded disgruntled star cornerback Jalen Ramsey to the Los Angeles Rams for two first-round draft picks (2020 and 2021) and a fourth-round pick in 2021. Incredible Blanket Puts Humans In A Deep Sleep, Melting Stress Away. The Saints flew him to New Orleans for a post-draft press conference. There was a fan fest with maybe 5,000 fans there on the property, fans going crazy because they got the best player in college football, and they chanted for Williams. This trade is also one of the big "what ifs?" After the 1999 NFL draft, Ricky Williams and Mike Ditka posed for ESPN The Magazine as a bride and groom. “When the coaches were told about it that day,” Turner said, “we looked at each other and said, ‘This isn’t real. He orchestrated the deal, then he showed up wearing Williams' signature dreadlocks at a fan fest the next day and even posed as the groom next to Williams, who wore a wedding dress, on a famous ESPN The Magazine cover that summer. Errick Lynne "Ricky" Williams Jr. (born May 21, 1977) is an American former football running back who played 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), one season in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and four years of minor league baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies.He played college football for the University of Texas, where he was a two-time All-American and won the Heisman Trophy. Breaking down one of the riskiest draft moves by the New Orleans Saints over the past 25 years -- when they traded their entire 1999 draft and their first- and third-round picks in 2000 for running back Ricky Williams: Did the risk pay off? Big problems. From the moment the deal happened, there were problems. 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Postscript III: I didn’t ask Casserly if he got any satisfaction from the quarterback Chicago took to be its long-term QB solution at 12—Cade McNown, who won three games in two years for the Bears. The Ricky Williams trade was a trade between the New Orleans Saints and Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL), which occurred prior to the 1999 NFL draft. The New York Jets traded Keyshawn Johnson, to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who signed him to an eight-year, $56 million contract. The Ricky Williams trade was a trade between the New Orleans Saints and Washington Redskins of the National Football League (NFL), which occurred prior to the 1999 NFL draft.

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