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Funny you mention both those guys, as they are both victims of being poorly utilized.
Say what you want about Zack, but he could have been a top-tier star by now had WWE not treated him like TNA treated the Motor City Machine Guns (as in, one of the most over acts in the whole damn company, but they still can't get TV time- who should also be included in this list).
As for K-Dogg, it honestly took hindsight and research to find out how big of a deal the man really was. My initial exposure to him WAS WCW, where he was one of those rotating curtain jerkers on Worldwide alongside Glacier or Jerry Flynn, or get 100% squashed on Nitro. Even when he was getting over because some charisma was allowed to surface, it usually consisted of him cutting a promo talking shit, then getting his ass kicked until his stablemates (nWo, LWO, Wolfpac, Filthy Animals...) come to make the save. Ne never got much of a chance to put on the type of matches he was capable of or be anything more than a Mexican street thug stereotype.
As for my answer, since the first two names that came to mind were already spoken (Nathan Jones and Lance Storm- and addendum to LS, his shit was headed downhill after his hat trick celebration was cut short by Kevin Nash's boot to cut a promo that could have happened any other time in the show, and was the start of the death of Lance's momentum) I would have to say D-Lo Brown. D'Lo (yes, I intentionally did it both ways) is one of those guys who would have benefitted from jumping ship to WCW and coming back to WWE later up the card in a fashion similar to Jeff Jarrett. Instead of getting behind him, he had been constantly relegated to afterthought status. Nation whipping boy, Mark Henry's fitness buddy, fill-in tag partner for one half of the Headbangers... you know, the same direction Kofi Kingston is headed in now!
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