No NFL team in history has selected two future Hall of Fame quarterbacks in the same draft class. But a Major League Baseball team has.
In the late 1970s, the Kansas City Royals were a brewing juggernaut and in the midst of what would be the best decade of the expansion franchise’s existence since joining MLB 10 years earlier. The Royals went from also-ran to perennial contender after striking gold throughout baseball’s amateur draft, culling pillars such as George Brett, Dennis Leonard, Willie Wilson and many others earlier in the decade.
By 1979, future Royals general manager John Schuerholz — who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2017 — had been elevated from director of scouting and player development to vice president of player personnel.