The 1983 NFL draft will go down in sports lore as one of the most memorable and impressive classes ever assembled. Seven of the 30 first-rounders are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, including fantasy superstars like John Elway, Eric Dickerson, Jim Kelly and Dan Marino. The draft class also saw several other highly productive fantasy players like Roger Craig, Curt Warner, Mark Clayton and Henry Ellard.
Marino, who was picked after fellow quarterbacks Todd Blackledge, Tony Eason and Ken O’Brien, led the position in all-time passing yards, touchdown passes and fantasy points when he retired in 1999. Elway was second in those categories when he hung up his cleats in 1998. Kelly, who played part of his career in the USFL, ranked ninth in all-time points among quarterbacks when he retired in 1996.
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