College fans don’t have much to fight over during the NFL draft. That’s a total lie, because college fans can always find stuff to fight over. Fighting over draft picks themselves has gone on for decades, and schools like to brag about them as they happen.
No. 1 NFL draft picks: The all-time list, with Texas A&M’s Myles Garrett added
Notre Dame and USC are the all-time leaders, even though it’s been a while.
Expect Texas A&M to be added to this list of schools that’ve had at least one No. 1 pick, with defensive end Myles Garrett the likely choice for the Cleveland Browns.
Year | Name | Position | College | Team |
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So yeah, Chicago, which stopped playing football in 1939, has as many all-time No. 1s as Alabama. We have to treasure the things Bama isn’t great at because there are so few of them.
Here are the leaders by college:
Five
Been a while! Only Carson Palmer and Keyshawn Johnson since the 1970s for either of these rivals; the former’s one of the NFL’s oldest players, and the latter’s kid is now in college.
- Notre Dame
- USC
Four
Gonna be a long time before anybody touches Stanford’s list of four No. 1 QBs.
- Auburn
- Georgia
- Stanford
Three
The next No. 1 by either the Sooners or Longhorns will involve rivalry bragging rights, meaning much fanfare.
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
- Texas
Two
The saddest sentence in American English: “Billy Cannon and JaMarcus Russell.”
- Cal
- LSU
- Miami
- Michigan
- Nebraska
- Penn State
- South Carolina
- Tennessee
- Virginia Tech
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