The No. 1 pick in the NFL draft already has traded hands, with Carolina sending it more than a year ago toBased on recent history, plenty more first-round picks should change hands on Thursday night with teams either looking to move up a spot or two for a specific player or to make a bigger investment with future picks to trade up for a franchise quarterback.
While trading first-round picks during the draft is common, giving up a first-round pick before the season that turned out to be the No. 1 overall pick is quite rare.was in 1983 when Cincinnati dealt quarterback Jack Thompson to Tampa Bay. In a draft that is shaping up as a potential record breaker for offensive players in the first round, running backs might have a long wait to start going off the board.
This could be the fourth draft ever with quarterbacks going with the top three picks after it previously happened in 1971, 1999 and 2021 and possibly the first with four QBs going in the top nine picks. The 2018 draft had four quarterbacks taken in the top 10 in Baker Mayfield , Sam Darnold , Josh Allen and Josh Rosen .
The most offensive linemen taken in the first round was 10 in 1968, with the over-under this year set at 9 1/2.
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