Football #1 Draft Picks

The #1 draft pick is the first player chosen in the annual professional draft of college football players.

• Angelo Bertelli

  American football player.

  • 1944 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Aundray Bruce

  American football player.

  • 1988 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Bill Wade

  American football player.

  • 1952 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Bill Dudley

  American football player.

  • 1942 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Billy Cannon

  American football player.

  • 1960 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Billy Sims

  American football player.

  • 1980 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Bo Jackson

  American football and baseball player.

  • 1986 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Bob Fenimore

  American football player.

  • 1947 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Bobby Garrett

  American football player.

  • 1954 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Bruce Smith

  American football player.

  • 1985 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Bubba Smith

  American football player.

  • 1967 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Charles Aldrich

  American football player.

  • 1939 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Charley Trippi

  American football player.

  • 1945 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Chuck Bednarik

  American football player.

  • 1949 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Corbett Davis

  American football player.

  • 1938 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Dan Wilkinson

  American football player.

  • 1994 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Dave Parks

  American football player.

  • 1964 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Drew Bledsoe

  American football player.

  • 1993 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Earl Campbell

  American football player.

  • 1978 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Ed Jones

  American football player.

  • 1974 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Ernie Davis

  American football player.

  • 1962 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Frank Dancewicz

  American football player.

  • 1946 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Frank Sinkwich

  American football player.

  • 1943 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Gary Glick

  American football player.

  • 1956 National Football League number-one draft pick
• George Cafego

  American football player.

  • 1940 National Football League number-one draft pick
• George Shaw

  American football player.

  • 1955 National Football League number-one draft pick
• George Rogers

  American football player.

  • 1981 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Harry Gilmer

  American football player.

  • 1948 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Harry Babcock

  American football player.

  • 1953 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Irving Fryar

  American football player.

  • 1984 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Jay Berwanger

  American football player.

  • 1936 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Jeff George

  American football player.

  • 1990 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Jim Plunkett

  American football player.

  • 1971 National Football League number-one draft pick
• John Matuszak (died 1989)

  American football player.

  • 1973 National Football League number-one draft pick
• John Elway

  American football player.

  • 1983 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Kenneth Sims

  American football player.

  • 1982 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Ki-Jana Carter

  American football player.

  • 1995 National Football League number-one draft pick
• King Hill

  American football player.

  • 1958 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Kyle Rote

  American football player.

  • 1951 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Lee Roy Selmon

  American football player.

  • 1976 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Leon Hart

  American football player.

  • 1950 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Orenthal James ''O.J.'' Simpson

  American football player and actor. His trial and acquittal on a double murder charge, and subsequent civil trial in which he was found liable for those murders, captured the world's attention in the mid-1990s.

  • 1969 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Paul Hornung

  American football player.

  • 1957 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Randy Duncan

  American football player.

  • 1959 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Ricky Bell

  American football player.

  • 1977 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Ron Yary

  American football player.

  • 1968 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Russell Maryland

  American football player.

  • 1991 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Sam Francis

  American football player.

  • 1937 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Steve Bartkowski

  American football player.

  • 1975 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Steve Emtman

  American football player.

  • 1992 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Terry Baker

  American football player and lawyer.

  • 1963 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Terry Bradshaw

  American football quarterback.

  • 1970 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Tom Cousineau

  American football player.

  • 1979 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Tom Harmon

  American football player.

  • 1941 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Tommy Mason

  American football player.

  • 1961 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Tommy Nobis

  American football player.

  • 1966 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Troy Aikman

  American football player.

  • 1989 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Tucker Frederickson

  American football player.

  • 1965 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Vinny Testaverde

  American football player.

  • 1987 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Walt Patulski

  American football player.

  • 1972 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Keyshawn Johnson

  American football player.

  • 1996 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Orlando Pace

  American football player.

  • 1997 National Football League number-one draft pick
• Peyton Manning

  American football player.

  • 1998 National Football League number-one draft pick