History has a way of repeating itself.
Fifty-four years before the Los Angeles Rams selected Cal quarterback Jared Goff with the first-overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, they chose Roman Gabriel, a quarterback from North Carolina State, second-overall in the 1962 NFL Draft. Gabriel was also the first-overall pick in that year’s American Football League’s Draft by the Oakland Raiders.
“I was first contacted by the Raiders and they offered me $12,500 and a $2,500 bonus, which I thought was a heck of a lot of money,” Gabriel said. “My (college) coach, Earle Edwards, I had a great relationship with him so I asked him to help me.