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NFL Draft Biggest Busts by Team: Who's Your Team's Worst Draft Pick Ever?


Everyone makes mistakes. But when those mistakes are magnified by intense scrutiny of the NFL draft, well, they become much more embarrassing than, say, my typical Friday morning, mustard-stain-on-khakis incident.

Which is why the NFL FanHouse braintrust got together to determine who is the biggest bust for each NFL team. They're not listed in terms of stupidity -- they're all stupid relative to a team's total draft performance. Meaning, of course, some teams "bust" is much different than another organization's; we did it this way to avoid just linking you to DetroitLions.com.

Instead, we're putting it in current draft order, sans trades, and allowing this list to serve as a reminder of each's team's ability to properly execute a fail. The "bust factor" was based primarily on three things: statistical production (or lack thereof), position in the draft and other available options during that year's draft.



Jason Peter Wants To "Spit In Lou Holtz's ****-ing Face"

Over the course of the past year or two, Lou Holtz has morphed from a lispy old coach who left every team he directed on probation into college football's wacky old uncle. He did this with magic tricks, mostly, and now everyone loves him.

Except former Nebraska star Jason Peter, that is:
"I still wouldn't turn down the opportunity to spit in Lou Holtz's (bleeping) face ... Each Saturday in the fall when Holtz makes his jovial, dumb ... remarks on ESPN, I hope he knows that there's at least one family on the other side of the screen, the Peter family, that knows what a -- -- -- he really is."
Anyone with even the slightest skills at expletive inferral knows what "bleeping" is, but the three sets of double en dashes are mysterious, aren't they? This is fun. I would like to know what those are as long as I don't have to buy Peter's book, which is about his heroic triumph over a bunch of drugs.

Why is the Peter family so anti-Holtz? Peter relates that his younger brother was a highly touted offensive lineman who committed to Notre Dame shortly before he broke a vertebra in his neck. Holtz never called or visited, though two Notre Dame assistants did, and in the fall Damien was "frozen out, ignored, discarded" by Holtz and company.

IMO: weak sauce. Probably hyped up to sell books.

(Via the Wiz.)

Ex-Panther Jason Peter Details Use of Crack, Vicodin, Ambien, Vodka, Prostitutes

After an All-American career at Nebraska, defensive lineman Jason Peter was the Carolina Panthers' first-round draft pick in 1998. But he failed in the NFL, starting just 20 games and leaving the league for good after four seasons.

Now he's written a book that details the drug abuse that derailed his career.



He says he would down 60 Vicodin and 20 sleeping pills with a bottle of vodka. Peter King of SI.com, who read an advance copy of the book, writes:
Vicodin. Ambien. Cocaine. Crack. Heroin. GHB, the date-rape drug. Lots of others I've never heard of. He's not sure if he's been in rehab six or seven times. He's blown most of the $6.5 million Carolina paid him over a disappointing, injury-filled NFL career with the Panthers. Nights and weeks with prostitutes so numerous ... well, so numerous that his Madame at a high-rolling Manhattan brothel ran out of girls for him.
Jason Peter now says he's amazed he's still alive. Reading King's account of the book, it is amazing.

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