Each NFL team’s best ever 1st-round draft pick

MLB/C. Penn. Chuck Bednarik. '49. player. 54. <p>Way back in 1949, the Philadelphia Eagles selelcted MLB/C Chuck Bednarik with the No. 1 overall pick. And one of the last players to go both ways in the NFL, he was double the value as a No. 1 overall. They didn’t make the money they make now in the NFL so they all had offseason jobs back then.</p> <p>And Bednarik was given the nickname “Concrete Charlie” because he was a concrete salesman. However, the name stuck because as a middle linebacker, he was as ferocious a tackler as there was. His legend was cemented, no pun intended, by a hit he put on New York Giants running back Frank Gifford that knocked him out of football for over 18 months.</p> <p>Bednarik’s rough-rider playing style helped the Eagles win NFL Championships in 1949 and 1960. In the 1960 NFL Championship Game, Bednarik made a tackle on Green Bay Packers running back Jim Taylor to save a TD at the Eagles’ eight yard line. Bednarik remained atop Taylor as the final seconds ticked off the clock to ensure that was the final play of the game.</p> <p>The Packers were uable to run another play and the Eagles beat Vince Lombardi’s Packers 17–13. Bednarik an All-Pro eight times and in 2010, he was ranked number 35 on NFL Network’s Top-100 NFL’s Greatest Players. At No. 7, Reggie White was ranked higher but he went to the Eagles in the NFL Supplemental Draft, another category.</p>