NFL teams rarely draft a specialist in the first round of the NFL Draft. Names like P Ray Guy or K Sebastian Janikowski are examples of specialists picked in round one, but another one is Pittsburgh Steelers WR Louis Lipps, according to Lipps himself.
How could that be? He’s a receiver.
Well, Lipps believes he was drafted by the Steelers in the first round of the 1984 NFL Draft at No. 23 overall due to his kick and punt return abilities.
“My whole four years in college, how many catches did I have?” asked Lipps on The Christian Kuntz Podcast.