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.
Some young players and their families take the day more seriously than others.
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.
The retired football and baseball player still proves "Bo knows" golf during charity tournaments.
In 1983, the Baltimore Colts chose Stanford's John Elway before he was traded to the Denver Broncos.
Elway would later become a Super Bowl and NFL MVP.
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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