Eric Fisher: “I want to constantly improve”

On April 25, 2013 — having had the NFL’s worst record in 2012 — the Kansas City Chiefs held the first pick in the NFL draft. Two months before, the team had acquired San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith in a controversial trade and were presumed to be eyeing offensive linemen for the first pick.

Until the day before the draft, the Chiefs were widely believed to be favoring Texas A&M’s Luke Joeckel. Instead, Joeckel was picked second by the Jacksonville Jaguars, after the Chiefs selected Central Michigan’s Eric Fisher.

It was the first time since 1970 that two offensive linemen had been chosen numbers one and two, and the first time since 1968 that three offensive linemen had been selected with the first four picks.