The Cleveland Browns certainly didn't need a running back when the 1964 draft came around. Jim Brown had just led the NFL by averaging 6.4 yards per carry in gaining 1,863 yards.
But in the eighth round, the Browns looked to Morgan State in Baltimore for Leroy Kelly, a guy who figured to fight to make the team since the Browns had Brown, Ernie Green and Charley Scales in the backfield. But Kelly's special teams play in the preseason earned him a spot, and Kelly would go on to succeed Brown after his sudden retirement after the 1965 season -- and then to the Hall of Fame.