List of Kansas City Chiefs first-round draft picks

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Larry Johnson, the Chiefs' twenty-seventh overall pick in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft.

The following is a complete list of players selected in the first round by the Kansas City Chiefs in the National Football League Draft. The list excludes the 1960 draft selections, due to the team's requirement to fill up their entire squad. Center E. J. Holub was the initial first round selection by made by the franchise.

1 Background
2 See also
3 References

[edit] Background

From 1960 to 1962, the Chiefs were known as the Dallas Texans until their relocation to Kansas City, Missouri [1]. The team participated in the American Football League's annual player draft from 1960 to 1966 until the beginning of the common draft in 1967 and the AFL's subsequent merger with the National Football League in 1970 [2]. Since 1970, the team has participated in the National Football League's annual player draft.

The Chiefs have only had the first overall selection in the draft once in franchise history, coming in 1963 when the team traded quarterback Cotton Davidson to the Oakland Raiders for the selection. The franchise has selected two players in the first round in the same year on four different occasions, coming in 1963, 1968, 1979, and 1984. The team has also traded away their first pick five times, coming in 1973, 1975, 1993, 2001, and 2004.

[edit] By draft year

Year	Player	College	Position
1960	Abner Haynes	North Texas State	RB
1961	E.J. Holub	Texas Tech	C
1962	Ronnie Bull^[1]	Baylor	RB
1963	Buck Buchanan^[2]	Grambling	DT
1963	Ed Budde	Michigan State	OT
1964	Pete Beathard	Southern California	QB
1965	Gale Sayers^[1]	Kansas	RB
1966	Aaron Brown	Minnesota	DE
1967	Gene Trosch	Miami	DT
1968	Mo Moorman	Texas	G
1968	George Daney	Texas-El Paso	G
1969	Jim Marsalis	Tennessee State	CB
1970	Sid Smith	Southern California	OT
1971	Elmo Wright	Houston	WR
1972	Jeff Kinney	Nebraska	RB
1973	No selection
1974	Woody Green	Arizona State	RB
1975	No selection
1976	Wayne Walters	Iowa	G
1977	Gary Green	Baylor	CB
1978	Art Still	Kentucky	DE
1979	Mike Bell	Colorado State	DE
1979	Steve Fuller	Clemson	QB
1980	Brad Budde	Southern California	G
1981	Willie Scott	South Carolina	TE
1982	Anthony Hancock	Tennessee	WR
1983	Todd Blackledge	Penn State	QB
1984	Bill Maas	Pittsburgh	DT
1984	John Alt	Iowa	OT
1985	Ethan Horton	North Carolina	RB
1986	Brian Jozwiak	West Virginia	OT
1987	Paul Palmer	Temple	RB
1988	Neil Smith	Nebraska	DE
1989	Derrick Thomas	Alabama	LB
1990	Percy Snow	Michigan State	LB
1991	Harvey Williams	Louisiana State	RB
1992	Dale Carter	Tennessee	CB
1993	No selection^[3]
1994	Greg Hill	Texas A&M	RB
1995^[4]	Trezelle Jenkins	Michigan	OT
1996	Jerome Woods	Memphis	SS
1997^[5]	Tony Gonzalez	California	TE
1998	Victor Riley	Auburn	OT
1999	John Tait	Brigham Young	OT
2000	Sylvester Morris	Jackson State	WR
2001	No selection^[6]
2002^[7]	Ryan Sims	North Carolina	DT
2003^[8]	Larry Johnson	Penn State	RB
2004	No selection^[9]
2005	Derrick Johnson	Texas	LB
2006	Tamba Hali	Penn State	DE
2007	Dwayne Bowe	Louisiana State	WR
2008	Glenn Dorsey	Louisiana State	DT
2008	Branden Albert	Virginia	G

[edit] By position

Like most teams in the NFL, the Chiefs have never drafted a fullback, placekicker, or punter in the first round of the NFL Draft. Running backs are the most commonly selected by the Chiefs in the first round, with 10 coming since 1960.

[edit] By university

Southern California, Iowa, and Penn. State have all contributed three players to the Chiefs in the first round of the draft, the most of any university.

[edit] See also

List of Kansas City Chiefs players

[edit] References

Kansas City Chiefs 2007 NFL Draft Headquarters, Retrieved 22 July 2007.

^ ^a ^b Elected to play in the National Football League instead of the American Football League.
^ Selection acquired in a trade from the Oakland Raiders. To date, this is the Chiefs' only first overall selection.
^ Obtained QB Joe Montana, S David Whitmore and San Francisco’s 1994 third-round pick in exchange for the Chiefs' first-round pick (18th overall).
^ Obtained Jacksonville’s first-round pick (31st overall, Trezelle Jenkins), third-round pick (97th overall, LB Troy Dumas), fourth-round pick (134th overall, QB Steve Stenstrom) and a 1996 fourth-round pick for the Chiefs' first-round pick (19th overall).
^ Obtained Houston’s first-round pick (13th overall, TE Tony Gonzalez) and fourth-round pick (110th overall, QB Pat Barnes) in exchange for the Chiefs' first-round (18th overall), third-round (81st overall), fourth-round (116th overall) and sixth-round (181st overall) picks.
^ Obtained QB Trent Green and St. Louis’ fifth-round pick (150th overall, RB Derrick Blaylock) in exchange for the Chiefs' first-round pick (12th overall).
^ Obtained Dallas’ first-round pick (sixth overall, DT Ryan Sims) in exchange for the Chiefs' first-round pick (8th overall), third-round pick (75th overall) and a sixth-round pick in 2003.
^ Obtained Pittsburgh’s first-round pick (27th overall, RB Larry Johnson), third-round pick (92nd overall, CB Julian Battle) and sixth-round pick (200th overall, subsequently traded to the New York Jets) in exchange for the Chiefs' first-round pick (16th overall).
^ Obtained Detroit’s 2004 second-round pick (DT Junior Siavii), fourth-round pick (WR Samie Parker) and a fifth-round pick in 2005 in exchange for the Chiefs' first-round pick (30th overall).

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Dallas Texans / Kansas City Chiefs first round draft picks

Haynes • Holub • Bull • Buchanan • E. Budde • Beathard • Sayers • Brown • Trosch • Moorman • Daney • Marsalis • Smith • Wright • Kinney • W. Green • Walters • G. Green • Still • Bell • Fuller • B. Budde • Scott • Hancock • Blackledge • Maas • Alt • Horton • Jozwiak • Palmer • Smith • Thomas • Snow • Williams • Carter • Hill • Jenkins • Woods • Gonzalez • Riley • Tait • Morris • Sims • L. Johnson • D. Johnson • Hali • Bowe • Dorsey • Albert

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