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Green Bay Packers draft picks (1936–1969)

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The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers have competed in the National Football League (NFL) since 1921, two years after their original founding by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun.[1] They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) and play their home games at Lambeau Field in central Wisconsin.[2][3]

The NFL draft, officially known as the "NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting",[4] is an annual event which serves as the league's most common source of player recruitment.[5] The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings; the teams with the worst win–loss records receive the earliest picks. Teams that qualified for the NFL playoffs select after non-qualifiers, and their order depends on how far they advanced, using their regular season record as a tie-breaker. The final two selections in the first round are reserved for the Super Bowl runner-up and champion. Draft picks are tradable and players or other picks can be acquired with them.[6]

In 1936, the Packers took part in the first NFL draft of college football players. With the seventh pick of the first round of that draft, Russ Letlow, a guard out of the University of San Francisco, became the Packers' first draft selection.[7] In addition to the annual draft, the Packers took part in the 1950 All-America Football Conference (AAFC) dispersal draft. This draft was organized after the AAFC, which was formed as a competing league in 1946, merged with the NFL. Three teams from the AAFC were admitted into the NFL, while the remaining players from the five defunct teams became automatically eligible for selection by an existing NFL team in the dispersal draft.[8][9] Twelve of the players drafted by the Packers between 1936 and 1969 have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[10] Eleven of these players, along with 33 other Packers draftees, have been inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame.[11] The Packers took part in every draft from 1936 to 1969, prior to the AFL–NFL merger and the formation of the modern draft in 1970.[7]

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# Inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame[11]
Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame[10]
Inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame

1936 draft

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Wally Fromhart, shown here in 1954, was the Packers' seventh-round selection in the 1936 draft.
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1937 draft

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Bud Wilkinson, shown here in 1961, was the Packers' third-round selection in the 1937 draft.
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1938 draft

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Tony Falkenstein was the Packers' twelfth round selection in the 1938 draft.
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1939 draft

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Larry Craig was the Packers' sixth-round selection in the 1939 draft.
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1940 draft

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Hal Van Every was the Packers' first-round selection in the 1940 draft.
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1941 draft

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Herm Rohrig was the Packers' sixth-round draft pick in the 1945 draft.
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1942 draft

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Bob Ingalls was the Packers' eighteenth-round selection in the 1942 draft.
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1943 draft

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Dick Wildung was the Packers' first-round selection in the 1943 draft.
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Nick Susoeff was the Packers' sixth-round selection in he 1943 draft.
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1944 draft

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Merv Pregulman was the Packers' first-round selection in the 1944 draft.
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Alex Agase was the Packers' eighth-round selection in the 1944 draft.
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1945 draft

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Walt Schlinkman was the Packers' first-round selection in the 1945 draft.
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Clyde Goodnight was the Packers' second-round selection in the 1945 draft.
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1946 draft

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Johnny Strzykalski was the Packers' first-round selection in the 1946 draft.
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Bob Nussbaumer was the Packers' second-round selection in the 1946 draft.
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1947 draft

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Ernie Case was the Packers' first-round selection in the 1947 draft.
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Burr Baldwin was the Packers' second-round selection in the 1947 draft.
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1948 draft

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Jug Girard was the Packers' first-round selection in the 1948 draft.
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Larry Olsonoski was the Packers' sixth-round selection in the 1948 draft.
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1949 draft

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Rebel Steiner was the Packers' twelfth-round selection in the 1949 draft.
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1950 AAFC dispersal draft

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Billy Grimes was the Packers' first-round selection in the AAFC dispersal draft.
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Alton Baldwin was the Packers' second-round selection in the AAFC dispersal draft.
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1950 draft

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Tobin Rote was the Packers' second-round selection in the 1950 draft.
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Gordy Soltau was the Packers' third-round selection in the 1950 draft.
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1951 draft

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Ray Pelfrey was the Packers' seventeenth-round selection in the 1951 draft.
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Ed Withers was the Packers' thirtieth-round selection in the 1951 draft.
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1952 draft

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Billy Howton was the Packers' first-round selection in the 1952 draft.
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Bobby Dillon was the Packers' second-round selection in the 1952 draft.
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1953 draft

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Roger Zatkoff was the Packers' fifth-round selection in the 1953 draft.
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Ike Jones was the Packers' twenty-fifth-round selection in the 1953 draft.
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1954 draft

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Art Hunter was one of the Packers' first-round selections in the 1954 draft.
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Veryl Switzer was one of the Packers' first-round selections in the 1954 draft.
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1955 draft

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Tom Bettis was the Packers' first-round selection in the 1955 draft.
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Hank Bullough was the Packers' fifth-round selection in the 1955 draft.
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1956 draft

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Bob Skoronski was the Packers' fifth-round selection in the 1956 draft.
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Mike Hudock was the Packers' eleventh-round selection in the 1956 draft.
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1957 draft

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Paul Hornung was one of the Packers' first-round selections in the 1957 draft.
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Ron Kramer was one of the Packers' first-round selections in the 1957 draft.
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1958 draft

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Dan Currie was the Packers' first-round selection in the 1958 draft.
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Jim Taylor was the Packers' second-round selection in the 1958 draft.
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1959 draft

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Alex Hawkins was the Packers' second-round selection in the 1959 draft.
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Boyd Dowler was the Packers' third-round selection in the 1959 draft.
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1960 draft

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1961 draft

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1962 draft

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Buck Buchanan, shown here playing for the Kansas City Chiefs, was the Packers' seventeenth-round selection in the 1962 draft.
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1963 draft

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Lionel Aldridge was the Packers' fourth-round selection in the 1963 draft.
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Marv Fleming was the Packers' eleventh-round selection in the 1963 draft.
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1964 draft

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1965 draft

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1966 draft

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1967 draft

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1968 draft

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Billy Stevens was the Packers' third-round selection in the 1968 draft.
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1969 draft

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See also

Notes

  1. Position reflects the source for each table (Pro-Football-Reference.com) and may not be representative of a player’s college position or a modern equivalent position.

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