In 1961, the Dallas Texans (or pre-Kansas City Chiefs) participated in their first AFL draft. Over the course of the last 60 years, the team has made over 550 selections. They’ve drafted Hall of Famers, All-Pros, Pro Bowlers, key cogs in their rosters, below average NFL players and of course, colossal busts.
Each year the team is graded by “experts” based on the perceived quality of the sum total of the players they’ve selected, called the draft class. But the best analysis of a draft’s success is always made much later, long after the players from the team have retired, or at least established themselves as as NFL veterans.