Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik has hit out at a comment from an NFL executive that Jameis Winston is comparable to JaMarcus Russell.

Winston has been touted to be selected with the first overall pick of the 2015 Draft by the Buccaneers due to his college exploits with the Florida State Seminoles.

However, an executive from an unnamed team suggested that he was similar to Draft bust Russell, who struggled immensely in his time in the league after being selected with the first pick by the Oakland Raiders in 2007.

"I think it's rude," Dominik told ESPN. "I think it's completely off base to call him JaMarcus Russell. I just don't see the comparison. Look, if you want to say one thing about Jameis [as a football player], the only thing I'd sit there and say is at the end of the season, he lost 17 pounds to go to the [Scouting] Combine.

"I didn't like that. You now, because I'd like to think he's playing as well as he can all the way through the bowl series and then getting himself ready for the Combine, instead of having to get himself in shape.

"But from a football standpoint, from a football intelligence, from a competitor, from a leader, it ain't close. It's embarrassing. For my personal opinion, whatever GM said that, probably should not be a GM quite frankly."

Dominik was the general manager of the Buccaneers for five seasons from 2009 to 2013.