Quote:First off, your count is wrong.

 

The first Super Bowl was for the 1966 season.

 

There was a number one overall pick that played in that Super Bowl-Paul Hornung of the Green bay Packers, who wound up with two Super Bowl rings, and he was drafted first in 1957.

 

Since then...

 

DT Buck Buchanan-1 ring, SB IV, first overall pick in 1963

DE Bubba Smith-1 ring, SB V, First overall pick in 1967.

QB Terry Bradshaw-4 rings, SBs IX, X, XIII, XIV, first overall pick in 1970

QB Jim Plunkett- 2 rings, SB XV and XVIII, first overall pick in 1971

DL John Matuszak-2 Rings, SB XI and XV, first overall pick in 1973

DE Ed "Too Tall" Jones-1 ring, SB XII, first overall pick in 1974

QB John Elway, 2 Rings, SB XXXII and XXXIII, first overall pick in 1983

QB Troy Aikman, 3 rings, SB XXVII, XXVIII, XXX, first overall pick in 1989

DT Russell Maryland, 3 rings-SB XXVII, XXVIII, and XXX-First overall pick in 1991

QB Drew Bledsoe, 1 ring-SB XXXVI, first overall pick in 1993

WR Keyshawn Johnson, 1 ring-SB XXXVII, first overall pick in 1996

LT Orlando Pace, 1 ring-SB XXIV, first overall pick in 1997

QB Peyton Manning, 1 ring-first overall pick in 1998

QB Eli Manning, 2 rings, first overall pick in 2004

 

By my count, that's twenty seven (27) rings by first overall draft picks, not the 16 you assert.

 

Secondly, your argument operates under the tacit premise that because a number one overall pick does not end up winning a Super Bowl ring, he wasn't worth that selection.

 

I tell you, even though they wound up without Super Bowl rings, I would GLADLY take guys like Bruce Smith, LeeRoy Selmon, Earl Campbell, Bo Jackson, Steve Emtman, Ron Yary and O.J. Simpson (from a purely football perspective) any day of the week.

 

Finally, even if we accept your number of first overall picks and Super Bowl rings at face value, that would mean a full 1/3 of all Super Bowl trophies were won by guys drafted in one position.  That's still a vastly impressive number.