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List of Green Bay Packers first-round draft picks

List of Green Bay Packers first-round draft picks

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The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers have competed in the National Football League (NFL) since 1921, two years after their original founding by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun.[1] They are members of the Northern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) and play their home games at Lambeau Field in central Wisconsin.[2][3]

Lukas Van Ness, the Packers 2023 NFL draft selection

The NFL draft, officially known as the "NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting",[4] is an annual event which serves as the league's most common source of player recruitment.[5] The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings; the teams with the worst win–loss records receive the earliest picks. Teams that qualified for the NFL playoffs select after non-qualifiers, and their order depends on how far they advanced, using their regular season record as a tie-breaker. The final two selections in the first round are reserved for the Super Bowl runner-up and champion. Draft picks are tradable and players or other picks can be acquired with them.[6]

The Packers participated in the first ever NFL draft in 1936 and selected Russ Letlow, a guard from the University of San Francisco.[7] The Packers have selected the number one overall pick in the draft twice, choosing Paul Hornung in 1957 and quarterback Randy Duncan in 1959. They have also selected the second overall pick three times and the third overall pick once. On 14 different occasions the Packers have had two selections in the first round, while on four occasions they have had no selections. The team's eight selections from the University of Minnesota are the most chosen by the Packers from one university.[8] Four first round draft picks by the Packers have gone on to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (Hornung, Herb Adderley, Dave Robinson and James Lofton), while two have won an NFL MVP Award (Hornung and Aaron Rodgers).[9][10] John Brockington and Willie Buchanon, the team's first round selections in 1971 and 1972 won back-to-back NFL Rookie of the Year Awards (Brockington on offensive, Buchanon on defense), the only Packers' first round selections to win the award.[11][12] The team's most recent first round selection was Lukas Van Ness, from Iowa in the 2023 NFL draft.[13]

Player selections

Stylized drawing of Wildung from a playing card
Dick Wildung, the Packers 1943 NFL draft selection
Hornung's playing card showing a headshot of him smiling
Paul Hornung, the Packers 1957 NFL draft selection
Currie's playing cards showing him posing with his uniform on
Dan Currie, the Packers 1958 NFL draft selection
Lofton kneeling in uniform with his helmet off
James Lofton, the Packers 1978 NFL draft selection
Franks in uniform on the filed about to catch a football
Bubba Franks, the Packers 2000 NFL draft selection
Rodgers in uniform
Aaron Rodgers, the Packers 2005 NFL draft selection
Matthews in uniform on the field
Clay Matthews III, the Packers 2009 NFL draft selection
Alexander in uniform
Jaire Alexander, the Packers 2018 NFL draft selection
Love in uniform with his helmet off
Jordan Love, the Packers 2020 NFL draft selection
Key
^ Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
* Inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame
MVP Elected as the NFL Most Valuable Player
ROY Elected as the NFL Rookie of the year
Bold Player is currently active in the NFL
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See also

Notes

  1. This list only includes first-round picks in the annual NFL draft. Thus, Billy Grimes (selected in the first round of the 1950 AAFC dispersal draft) and Buford Jordan (selected in the first round of the 1984 NFL supplemental draft of USFL and CFL players) are not included.[14][15]

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