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Throwback Thursday: Redskins Pick Future Hall Of Famer Wayne Millner

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Current Washington Redskins general manager Scot McCloughan preaches the importance of building through the draft.

Not only are first-round picks key to building a team’s talent base quickly, but late-round picks are important for depth, too.

For years and years, players drafted in the later rounds of have virtually come out of nowhere and excelled.

All the way back in the first NFL Draft in 1936, the Redskins selected Notre Dame end Wayne Millner in the eighth round.

He would go on to make quite the name for himself.