5th pick in the draft over time

1982 5 Chicago Jim McMahon QB Brigham Young
1983 5 San Diego Billy Ray Smith OLB Arkansas
1984 5 Kansas City Bill Maas NT Pittsburgh
1985 5 Indianapolis Duane Bickett OLB Southern California
1986 5 St. Louis Anthony Bell OLB Michigan State
1987 5 Cleveland Mike Junkin ILB Duke
1988 5 Cincinnati Rickey Dixon DB Oklahoma
1989 5 Atlanta Deion Sanders CB Florida State
1990 5 San Diego Junior Seau OLB Southern California
1991 5 L.A. Rams Todd Lyght CB Notre Dame
1992 5 Green Bay Terrell Buckley CB Florida State
1993 5 Cincinnati John Copeland DE Alabama
1994 5 Indianapolis Trev Alberts LB Nebraska
1995 5 Carolina Kerry Collins QB Penn State
1996 5 N.Y. Giants Cedric Jones DE Oklahoma
1997 5 Detroit Bryant Westbrook CB Texas
1998 5 Chicago Curtis Enis RB Penn State
1999 5 New Orleans Ricky Williams RB Texas
2000 5 Baltimore Jamal Lewis RB Tennessee
2001 5 San Diego LaDainian Tomlinson RB Texas Christian
2002 5 San Diego Quentin Jammer CB Texas
2003 5 Dallas Terence Newman CB Kansas State
2004 5 Washington Sean Taylor FS Miami
2005 5 Tampa Bay Carnell Williams RB Auburn

That 5th pick has been pretty solid as of late........

Hi Rastak,

I was thinking the same thing. And this is supposed to be a very deep draft.

Better training/development in college, whatever? Most of the guys since Ricky Williams started out good, and are all natural athletes. Didnt take a lot of player development.

If you had to pick guys out of this years draft in their class, who's most comparable?

I didn't include Jammer, Newman, or Carnell Williams (rookie of the year) as good picks yet. Let's see Carnell do it again. He tailed off near the end of the year. Almost overtaken by Samkon Gado.

I would consider Jim McMahon a pretty good pick as well.

wow - Curtis Enis. I'd forgotten that putz went that high.

Happy 100th post, Guinness.