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Jets' draft history from Joe Namath to Johnny 'Lam' Jones

by AP Pro Football Writer
| April 23, 2020 8:06 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — BEST FIRST-ROUND DRAFT PICK: QB Joe Namath. Who else? Broadway Joe was the No. 1 overall pick in the AFL draft in 1965 and went on to deliver the franchise its only Super Bowl victory — and still its only appearance in the big game. (RB Freeman McNeil — No. 3, 1982 — comes in a distant second).

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