Year	Team	Player	Position	College
2001	Atlanta	Michael Vick	QB	Virginia Tech
2000	Cleveland	Courtney Brown	DT	Penn St.
1999	Cleveland	Tim Couch	QB	Kentucky
1998	Indianapolis	Peyton Manning	QB	Tennessee
1997	St. Louis	Orlando Pace	T	Ohio. St.
1996	New York Jets	Keyshawn Johnson	WR	USC
1995	Cincinnati	Ki-Jana Carter	RB	Penn St.
1994	Cincinnati	Dan Wilkinson	DT	Ohio St.
1993	New England	Drew Bledsoe	QB	Wash. St.
1992	Indianapolis	Steve Emtman	DT	Washington
1991	Dallas	Russell Maryland	DT	Miami
1990	Indianapolis	Jeff George	QB	Illinois
1989	Dallas	Troy Aikman	QB	UCLA
1988	Atlanta	Aundray Bruce	LB	Auburn
1987	Tampa Bay	Vinny Testaverde	QB	Miami
1986	Tampa Bay	Bo Jackson	RB	Auburn
1985	Buffalo	Bruce Smith	DE	Virginia Tech
1984	New England	Irving Fryar	WR	Nebraska
1983	Baltimore	John Elway	QB	Stanford
1982	New England	Kenneth Simms	DT	Texas
1981	New Orleans	George Rogers	RB	South Carolina
1980	Detroit	Billy Sims	RB	Oklahoma
1979	Buffalo	Tom Cousineau	LB	Ohio St.
1978	Houston	Earl Campbell	RB	Texas
1977	Tampa Bay	Ricky Bell	RB	USC
1976	Tampa Bay	Lee Roy Sellman	DE	Oklahoma
1975	Atlanta	Steve Bartkowski	QB	Cal
1974	Dallas	Ed Jones	DE	Tenn. St.
1973	Houston	John Matuzak	DE	Tampa
1972	Buffalo	Walt Patulski	DE	Notre Dame
1971	New England	Jim Plunkett	QB	Stanford
1970	Pittsburgh	Terry Brandshaw	QB	Louisiana Tech
1969	Buffalo	O.J. Simpson	RB	USC
1968	Minnesota	Ron Yary	T	USC
1967	Baltimore	Bubba Smith	DT	Mich. St.
1966	Atlanta	Tommy Nobis	LB	Texas
1966	Miami (AFL)	Jim Grabowski	RB	Illinois
1965	N.Y. Giants	Tucker Fredrickson	RB	Auburn
1965	Houston (AFL)	Lawrence Elkins	E	Baylor
1964	San Francisco	Dave Parks	E	Texas Tech.
1964	Boston (AFL)	Jack Concannon	QB	Boston College
1963	Los Angeles	Terry Baker	QB	Oregon St.
1963	Kansas City (AFL)	Buck Buchanon	DT	Grambling
1962	Washington	Ernie Davis	RB	Syracuse
1962	Oakland (AFL)	Roman Gabriel	QB	N.C. State
1961	Minnesota	Tommy Mason	RB	Tulane
1961	Buffalo (AFL)	Ken Rice	G	Auburn
1960	Los Angeles	Billy Cannon	QB	Louisiana State
1959	Green Bay	Randy Duncan	QB	Iowa
1958	Chicago Cardinals	King Hill	QB	Rice
1957	Green Bay	Paul Hornug	HB	Notre Dame
1956	Pittsburgh	Gary Glick	DB	Colorado A&M
1955	Baltimore	George Shaw	QB	Oregon St.
1954	Cleveland	Bobby Garrett	QB	Stanford
1953	San Francisco	Harry Babcock	E	Georgia
1952	Los Angeles	Bill Wade	QB	Vanderbilt
1951	N.Y. Giants	Kyle Rote	HB	Southern Methodist
1950	Detroit	Leon Hart	E	Notre Dame
1949	Philadelphia	Chuck Bednarik	C	Pennsylvania
1948	Washington	Harry Gilmore	QB	Alabama
1947	Chicago Bears	Bill Fenimore	HB	Oklahoma A&M
1946	Boston	Frank Dancewicz	QB	Pennsylvania
1945	Chicago Cardinals	Charley Trippi	HB	Georgia
1944	Boston	Angelo Bertelli	QB	Notre Dame
1943	Detroit	Frank Sinkwich	HB	Georgia
1942	Pittsburgh	Bill Dudley	HB	Virginia
1941	Chicago Bears	Tom Harmon	HB	Michigan
1940	Chicago Cardinals	George Cafego	HB	Tennessee
1939	Chicago Cardinals	Ki Aldrich	C	Texas Christian
1938	Cleveland	Corbett Davis	FB	Indiana
1937	Philadelphia	Sam Francis	FB	Nebraska
1936	Philadelphia	Jay Berwanger	HB	Chicago