Jared Goff wasn’t the first Cal QB to be taken 1st Overall. That honor fell on the man in the picture above: Steve Bartkowski, selected 1st Overall by the Atlanta Falcons in the 1975 NFL Draft. Every year there is a debate regarding who will be selected 1st Overall. Due to my training as an Economist from Cal (all hail Evans Hall), I always looked at it in a relative value. That is, how many other players in the NFL Draft would it take to match the value of a #1 Pick.
The Cleveland Browns most recently began trading away their top draft picks for more later in the Draft.