NFL Draft Day Throwback Thursday Photos of Past Picks
Enjoy this blast from the past as the 2015 NFL Draft Day begins tonight.
— -- It's day one of the 2015 NFL Draft starting tonight in Chicago when dreams are born for some of college football's best players. A look back at the first overall draft picks of the past show hopeful eyes -- as well as heads full of hair -- of some of the league's greatest players.
And it's not just the first-round picks who would rise to football's elite. Back in 1991, Brett Favre, quarterback at Southern Mississippi, was in his bedroom when he received a call from the Atlanta Falcons during the second round that he had been drafted.
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Some young players and their families take the day more seriously than others.
![PHOTO: NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, left, stands with Auburn running back Bo Jackson after he was chosen first in the NFL draft in New York April 29, 1986.](https://s.abcnews.com/images/Sports/ap_bo_jackson_lb_150430.jpg)
In 1986, Heisman Trophy winner Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson, who attended Auburn University, was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as the first overall pick.
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The retired football and baseball player still proves "Bo knows" golf during charity tournaments.
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In 1983, the Baltimore Colts chose Stanford's John Elway before he was traded to the Denver Broncos.
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Elway would later become a Super Bowl and NFL MVP.
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Blonde and with a dimpled chin, Terry Bradshaw from Louisiana Tech was the first pick in the 1970 draft. He went on to join the Pittsburgh Steelers and become an MVP and a four-time Super Bowl champion.
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