The Buccaneers finally admitted what we all knew back in the spring of 2016: Using a second-round draft pick on K Roberto Aguayo was a colossal mistake.

Tampa Bay waived the struggling kicker Saturday after he missed two kicks in the preseason opener against the Bengals. He finishes his Bucs career with 12 field goal misses and four more on extra points. Some cruel person decided to put together a lowlight reel. It’s ugly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF455bGsGU8

Making the decision to draft a kicker even worse, the Buccaneers actually traded up to take him. Tampa Bay not only wasted a second-round pick, but also the 74th and 106th overall picks, which it traded to Kansas City for the right to take Aguayo. That’s a lot of draft capital to waste on a player who couldn’t stick around for more than a season.

And it didn’t really matter if Aguayo had developed into a great kicker. This would still be considered a terrible move. The difference between a Hall of Fame kicker and an average one just isn’t big enough to justify the pick, as we wrote last summer when Aguayo was struggling:

Even if Aguayo was nailing these kicks, it would have been difficult for him to live up to his draft position. The greatest kicker in NFL history, Adam Vinatieri, has an average AV — which is similar to baseball’s WAR stat — of 3.3 over his 20-year career. Noted bust Trent Richardson, who isn’t even in the league, has an average AV of 6 over three seasons. Former Chargers kicker Nate Kaeding, a perfectly mediocre kicker, averaged 2.5 AV over ten years — only 0.8 less than the GOAT.

The Bucs taking Aguayo is one of the worst picks in NFL draft history, but it’s not the worst pick. And Tampa can thank their divisional rivals for helping them avoid that distinction.

In 1979, the New Orleans Saints used the 11th-overall-pick on kicker/punter Russell Erxleben. Like Aguayo, Erxleben struggled in his rookie season and ended up losing his place-kicking duties. So the Saints used a top pick on a punter. And he wasn’t even very good at punting! The first-round pick lasted just six seasons in the NFL.

Erxleben wasn’t just terrible on the field. He was also a terrible person off it. Erxleben became a financial advisor after his football career fizzled out. In 2000, he was convicted for conspiracy to commit securities fraud. If that wasn’t enough, Erxleben was arrested again in 2013 for his involvement in a Ponzi scheme.

Until another team takes a bad kicker with a high first-round pick who ends being a despicable white collar criminal, the Saints are still on the hook for the worst draft pick ever.