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Pat Peppler (Part III: The Draft Picks)

Cliff Christl started gathering oral histories with former Packers and others associated with the team in 2000 and will continue to gather them as Packers historian. Excerpts from those interviews will be periodically posted at www.packers.com

As director of player personnel under Vince Lombardi and Phil Bengtson and as assistant to the general manager under Dan Devine, Pat Peppler oversaw the Packers scouting department for every draft from 1964-72. In this, the third and final oral history with Peppler, he talks about some of those drafts and the Packers’ picks.

On the Packers’ first draft pick in 1964, tackle Lloyd Voss, who started only one game in two years before being traded for a No.