I do not agree. Reggie Bush has been a total bust. Bush is nothing more then a overhyped third down back who can catch the ball out of the backfield. He is a Kevin Faulk type player , just not as good. Hardly worth his draft position. Out of all the first round backs taken that year , Bush has the worst numbers. Avg shelf life for a NFL back is five years. Bush is not even a full time back. Williams imo was a far better choice then Bush. Williams will be playing long after Bush is washed up.
Many NFL players take a year to adjust and develop. Wr's can take up to three years. Williams started off injured. His first year the Texans had him playing NT most of the time. This year he has come out. Not only does he have thirteen sacks , he is extremely athletic , has great speed for his size and routinely beats double teams to disrupt the pocket. Basing a players production on sacks alone is only part of the story. Having watched Mario play this year he constantly wreeks havock in the pocket. Not only does Mario have 13 sacks he has 16 ast's, 53 total tackels and 2 ff's. I dont think you can find me a better de in the NFL right now. Williams is only in his second year. It takes three years to fully gauge a draft choice. All Mario has done is show vast improvement in his second year. His first year being marred with injury and extremley high expectations. Imo mario Williams will prove to be the best choice over his career.
Aside from rushing ability Vince Young is nothing special imo. Qb is the hardest position to scout. Everyone was sure Leaf was better then Manning etc etc. Good teams are built on the lines. The Texans took the "safe" talent route. Mario is Okeye are going to be a very very formidable tandem for years to come. The texans have improved vastly even with 11 players on ir. Willaims is only 22 and in his second NFL year. His second year has been very very good.
Bush was hands down the best player in college football. He is, as scouts described him coming into the draft, a "one cut and gone" player. Mario Williams, on the other hand, was not the best player in college football. I'm not even sure he was the best DE in college football coming into the draft. He shot up draft boards based on measureables (height, weight, 40 time, etc.), not because of his production on the field. He disappeared for weeks at a time in college. He wound up with a lot of sacks, but they came in relatively few games. That is precisely what he has done in the NFL. There were a number of GMs who were concerend about the fact that he took games off in college. And keep in mind that he played alongside two first round picks his last year.
Bush is a great talent. Not sure Jones-Drew is a good comparison, because he has more yards from scrimmage than him the past two years, although Jones-Drew has more TDs. Bush has more yards and TDs than Maroney. And Kevin Faulk? C'mon. Not sure how you can compare him with those three.
Vince Young was the best QB in college football his last year. He was rookie of the year last year and made the Pro Bowl as a rookie. You might not consider that anything special, but I do. What makes that so impressive is, along with Atlanta, he might have the worst set of skill position players in the NFL. For him to play as well as he did last year with that supporting cast was very impressive. This year's group is even worse.
I also disagree with those who say Bush isn't big enough to be a full-time back. He's bigger than Warrick Dunn. He's probably bigger than Westbrook. They just need to give him the ball. When they do give him the ball, he's very good.
Some of the best RBs in NFL history have not been very big at all: Barry, Walter, Emmitt, etc. At 6' 200 he is plenty big enough to be an every down RB.
Too early to completely judge any of those guys anyway.