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List of first overall picks. 1942 first overall pick Bill Dudley was the first named NFL MVP and inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 1945 first overall pick Charley Trippi retired as the leader in NFL offensive yards. 1949 first overall pick Chuck Bednarik was one of the last NFL players to play offense and defense.
List of NFL drafts. The NFL draft, officially known as the "NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting", [1] [2] [3] is an annual event which serves as the league's most common source of player recruitment. [4] The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings; the teams with the worst win–loss records receive the earliest picks.
The current logo for the NFL draft. The NFL draft, officially known as the Annual Player Selection Meeting, [1] [2] is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment in the National Football League. Each team is given a position in the drafting order in reverse order relative to its record in the previous year ...
Nine of the team's first-round picks— Lance Alworth, Jimmy Johnson, Ronnie Lott, Hugh McElhenny, Leo Nomellini, Jerry Rice, Y. A. Tittle, Patrick Willis, and Bryant Young —have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame; [16] one of these, Lance Alworth, chose to sign with the NFL's pre-merger direct competitor, the American Football ...
Five of the team's first-round picks— Marcus Allen, Tim Brown, Ray Guy, Gene Upshaw, and Charles Woodson —have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. [25] [26] The Raiders used four first-round picks in the 1960s to select players— Roman Gabriel, Dale Hackbart, Tony Lorick, and Joe Rutgens —who chose to sign with the NFL instead.
The Cowboys drafted quarterback Troy Aikman first overall in the 1989 NFL draft. Aikman spent his entire 12-year career with Dallas and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football ...
Lawrence Jackson, Seattle's 2008 first-round pick. The Seattle Seahawks joined the National Football League (NFL) in 1976 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. [1] They participated in their first draft, the 1976 NFL draft and selected Steve Niehaus, a defensive tackle from Notre Dame. The team's most recent first-round selections were in 2023, which ...
The team's first-round pick in the inaugural AFL draft was Don Meredith, a quarterback out of Southern Methodist University (SMU); he was the team's territorial selection. [22] [25] The Chiefs have held the first overall pick twice, once in the AFL draft, selecting Buck Buchanan in 1963, and once in the NFL draft, selecting Eric Fisher in 2013 ...