Dave Ragone is just one of a litany of highly touted Louisville quarterbacks who went on to shit the bed in the NFL (A list that includes Brian Brohm and Hunter Cantwell). Ragone was a third round pick of the Houston Texans in 2003, oddly enough a year after the Texans would peg fellow bust David Carr as their first overall pick and franchise quarterback. Thanks to an offensive line that was leakier than Rick James' Jheri Curl, injuries caused by an overload of sacks forced Carr to the sidelines and Ragone into the lineup. In two games with Houston in his rookie season, Ragone was 20 of 40 for 145 yards(which was, oddly enough, just four yards longer than Ragone's nose) and one pick. He never threw a touchdown in the NFL and somehow managed to get sacked eight times. In fact, if you Google images of Ragone from his pro career, most of them involve him running for his life from an oncoming pass rush.
Ragone's biggest after-college impact came in the now-defunct NFL Europe. In 2005, he led the Berlin Thunder to the World Bowl and was named the league's Offensive MVP. A year later, he was waived by Houston and picked up by Cincinnati, where he lasted all of a month before being traded to St. Louis. Ragone spent that season on the Rams' practice squad and by season's end, he was out of the NFL. Ragone's name resurfaced this year when he was hired to be the QB/WR coach of the UFL's Hartford Colonials.
So let's give it up for another Louisville waste of space....Dave Ragone, everybody.
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