what team has the best draft history?

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i know its not the bills

[Terry Tate]

i know its not the bills

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Over the team's history, that's asking for a lot of research. Depends on how you categorize it otherwise. Best single draft by a team usually defers to the Steeler's 1974 draft - day 1 they picked Swann (HOF), Lambert (HOF), Stallworth (HOF), Allen, and Webster (HOF). Pretty tough to top that.

 

For the doom and gloomers, here's what a Pittsburgh-Post-Gazette columnist had to say about it: "The Steelers seem to have come out of the first five rounds of the draft appreciably strengthened at wide receiver but nowhere else. They didn’t get a tight end, and the ones remaining are more suspect than prospect. They didn’t get a punter, although none of the nation’s best collegiate punters went in the first five rounds. They didn’t get an offensive tackle that might’ve shored up what could well become a weakness. What they did get was Swann, who seems to be a sure-pop to help; Lambert, who figures to be the No. 5 linebacker if he pans out; and three question marks."

[Bill from NYC]

Over the team's history, that's asking for a lot of research. Depends on how you categorize it otherwise. Best single draft by a team usually defers to the Steeler's 1974 draft - day 1 they picked Swann (HOF), Lambert (HOF), Stallworth (HOF), Allen, and Webster (HOF). Pretty tough to top that.

 

For the doom and gloomers, here's what a Pittsburgh-Post-Gazette columnist had to say about it: "The Steelers seem to have come out of the first five rounds of the draft appreciably strengthened at wide receiver but nowhere else. They didn’t get a tight end, and the ones remaining are more suspect than prospect. They didn’t get a punter, although none of the nation’s best collegiate punters went in the first five rounds. They didn’t get an offensive tackle that might’ve shored up what could well become a weakness. What they did get was Swann, who seems to be a sure-pop to help; Lambert, who figures to be the No. 5 linebacker if he pans out; and three question marks." 

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Good info! Do you know who Dallas drafted the year after the Herschel Walker trade?

[pm73]

Good info! Do you know who Dallas drafted the year after the Herschel Walker trade?

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the trade happened on Oct. 12, 1989. In the 1990 draft dallas picked...

1 Emmitt Smith RB Florida

2 Alexander Wright WR Auburn

3 Jimmie Jones DT Miami (FL)

4 Kenneth Gant DB Albany State

5 Dave Harper LB Humboldt State

 

however, the picks aquired from this trade lasted until 1992. here is a good article that gives a complete (and confusing) breakdown of that entire trade.

 

Herschel Walker trade