Tim Ruddy yes and Bill Stanfill no. Yeah, this is a sane world.
Perpetually amazing how little credit Bill Stanfill gets on lists like these. I can almost understand it from fans who never saw Stanfill play, but recently I saw a list of 5 Dolphin flops by Barry Jackson of the Herald in regard to mistakes in selecting other players instead of Canes. He included taking Stanfill instead of Ted Hendricks in '69.
Now I'm a huge Canes fan who saw Hendricks play at UM, but listing Bill Stanfill as any type of botched pick is remarkably ignorant. He filled a huge disruptive role at RDE and was arguably every bit as destructive in the early to mid '70s as Hendricks. Those 18.5 sacks in '73 were incredible when you consider it was a run oriented era, Miami's running game kept the other team's offense on the sideline for huge portions of the game, and Miami's big leads put the reserves in late almost every game in '73. Stanfill made 5 Pro Bowls, including 4 straight in the Dolphin prime years of '71-'74, in an era of great DEs and was a potential Hall of Famer without the neck injury that dramatically shortened his career. He is 50-fold the most underrated player in team history and a sickeningly flawed list like this one is merely further confirmation.
