Believe it or not, an Indiana football player has actually been selected with the first overall pick of the NFL Draft before. Richard Corbett \u201cCorby\u201d Davis, an Indiana native and fullback for the Hoosiers, was picked first overall by the Cleveland Rams in 1938.<\/p>\n
Fernando Mendoza, the Heisman Trophy winner and national champion, can still make some history on Thursday night as the first Hoosier quarterback selected first overall. He\u2019s set to become the program\u2019s 15th first round pick in either the AFL or NFL Drafts and the first since wide receiver Thomas Lewis was picked 27th overall by the New York Giants in 1994.<\/p>\n
He\u2019ll be Indiana\u2019s first quarterback selected since last year\u2019s draft when Kurtis Rourke was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the seventh round with the 227th overall pick. The second highest-drafted quarterback, Babe Laufenberg was selected in the sixth round with the 168th overall pick by the Washington Commanders in the 1983 NFL Draft. Laufenberg has been having quite a bit of fun<\/a> with that fact on Twitter.<\/p>\n Mendoza has already made plenty of history as the program\u2019s first Heisman Trophy winner, first Davey O\u2019Brien award winner, first Manning Award winner, the first quarterback to lead Indiana to a national championship, setting the program\u2019s all-time single season passing touchdowns record, single game completion percentage record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Believe it or not, an Indiana football player has actually been selected with the first overall pick of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[7,26781],"class_list":{"0":"post-872814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-indiana-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116454563724383754","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}