1997 NFL Draft
Below is a list of all players selected in the 1997 NFL Draft.
| Round | Pick | Team | Player | Analysis | Position | College |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | STL | Orlando Pace HOF | 199701001 | T | Ohio St. |
| 1 | 2 | OAK | Darrell Russell | 199701002 | DT | USC |
| 1 | 3 | SEA | Shawn Springs | 199701003 | DB | Ohio St. |
| 1 | 4 | BAL | Peter Boulware | 199701004 | LB | Florida St. |
| 1 | 5 | DET | Bryant Westbrook | 199701005 | DB | Texas |
| 1 | 6 | SEA | Walter Jones HOF | 199701006 | T | Florida St. |
| 1 | 7 | NYG | Ike Hilliard | 199701007 | WR | Florida |
| 1 | 8 | NYJ | James Farrior | 199701008 | LB | Virginia |
| 1 | 9 | ARI | Tom Knight | 199701009 | DB | Iowa |
| 1 | 10 | NO | Chris Naeole | 199701010 | G | Colorado |
| 1 | 11 | ATL | Michael Booker | 199701011 | DB | Nebraska |
| 1 | 12 | TB | Warrick Dunn | 199701012 | RB | Florida St. |
| 1 | 13 | KC | Tony Gonzalez HOF | 199701013 | TE | California |
| 1 | 14 | CIN | Reinard Wilson | 199701014 | LB | Florida St. |
| 1 | 15 | MIA | Yatil Green | 199701015 | WR | Miami (FL) |
| 1 | 16 | TB | Reidel Anthony | 199701016 | WR | Florida |
| 1 | 17 | WAS | Kenard Lang | 199701017 | DE | Miami (FL) |
| 1 | 18 | TEN | Kenny Holmes | 199701018 | DE | Miami (FL) |
| 1 | 19 | IND | Tarik Glenn | 199701019 | T | California |
| 1 | 20 | MIN | Dwayne Rudd | 199701020 | LB | Alabama |
| 1 | 21 | JAX | Renaldo Wynn | 199701021 | DE | Notre Dame |
| 1 | 22 | DAL | David LaFleur | 199701022 | TE | LSU |
| 1 | 23 | BUF | Antowain Smith | 199701023 | RB | Houston |
| 1 | 24 | PIT | Chad Scott | 199701024 | DB | Maryland |
| 1 | 25 | PHI | Jon Harris | 199701025 | DE | Virginia |
| 1 | 26 | SF | Jim Druckenmiller | 199701026 | QB | Virginia Tech |
| 1 | 27 | CAR | Rae Carruth | 199701027 | WR | Colorado |
| 1 | 28 | DEN | Trevor Pryce | 199701028 | DT | Clemson |
| 1 | 29 | NE | Chris Canty | 199701029 | DB | Kansas St. |
| 1 | 30 | GB | Ross Verba | 199701030 | T | Iowa |
| 2 | 31 | NYJ | Rick Terry | 199702031 | DT | North Carolina |
| 2 | 32 | ATL | Nathan Davis | 199702032 | DE | Indiana |
| 2 | 33 | NO | Rob Kelly | 199702033 | DB | Ohio St. |
| 2 | 34 | BAL | Jamie Sharper | 199702034 | LB | Virginia |
| 2 | 35 | DET | Juan Roque | 199702035 | T | Arizona St. |
| 2 | 36 | NYG | Tiki Barber | 199702036 | RB | Virginia |
| 2 | 37 | TB | Jerry Wunsch | 199702037 | T | Wisconsin |
| 2 | 38 | CHI | John Allred | 199702038 | TE | USC |
| 2 | 39 | NO | Jared Tomich | 199702039 | DE | Nebraska |
| 2 | 40 | STL | Dexter McCleon | 199702040 | DB | Clemson |
| 2 | 41 | ATL | Byron Hanspard | 199702041 | RB | Texas Tech |
| 2 | 42 | ARI | Jake Plummer | 199702042 | QB | Arizona St. |
| 2 | 43 | CIN | Corey Dillon | 199702043 | RB | Washington |
| 2 | 44 | MIA | Sam Madison | 199702044 | DB | Louisville |
| 2 | 45 | SDG | Freddie Jones | 199702045 | TE | North Carolina |
| 2 | 46 | TEN | Joey Kent | 199702046 | WR | Tennessee |
| 2 | 47 | KC | Kevin Lockett | 199702047 | WR | Kansas St. |
| 2 | 48 | IND | Adam Meadows | 199702048 | T | Georgia |
| 2 | 49 | MIN | Torrian Gray | 199702049 | DB | Virginia Tech |
| 2 | 50 | JAX | Mike Logan | 199702050 | DB | West Virginia |
| 2 | 51 | WAS | Greg Jones | 199702051 | LB | Colorado |
| 2 | 52 | BUF | Marcellus Wiley | 199702052 | DE | Columbia |
| 2 | 53 | PIT | Will Blackwell | 199702053 | WR | San Diego St. |
| 2 | 54 | DET | Kevin Abrams | 199702054 | DB | Syracuse |
| 2 | 55 | SF | Marc Edwards | 199702055 | FB | Notre Dame |
| 2 | 56 | CAR | Mike Minter | 199702056 | DB | Nebraska |
| 2 | 57 | PHI | James Darling | 199702057 | LB | Washington St. |
| 2 | 58 | BAL | Kim Herring | 199702058 | DB | Penn St. |
| 2 | 59 | NE | Brandon Mitchell | 199702059 | DE | Texas A&M |
| 2 | 60 | GB | Darren Sharper | 199702060 | DB | William & Mary |
| 3 | 61 | NE | Sedrick Shaw | 199703061 | RB | Iowa |
| 3 | 62 | NO | Troy Davis | 199703062 | RB | Iowa St. |
| 3 | 63 | TB | Frank Middleton | 199703063 | G | Arizona |
| 3 | 64 | BAL | Jay Graham | 199703064 | RB | Tennessee |
| 3 | 65 | DAL | Dexter Coakley | 199703065 | LB | Appalachian St. |
| 3 | 66 | TB | Ronde Barber HOF | 199703066 | DB | Virginia |
| 3 | 67 | DEN | Dan Neil | 199703067 | G | Texas |
| 3 | 68 | NYG | Ryan Phillips | 199703068 | LB | Idaho |
| 3 | 69 | CHI | Bob Sapp | 199703069 | G | Washington |
| 3 | 70 | ATL | O.J. Santiago | 199703070 | TE | Kent St. |
| 3 | 71 | PHI | Duce Staley | 199703071 | RB | South Carolina |
| 3 | 72 | OAK | Adam Treu | 199703072 | C | Nebraska |
| 3 | 73 | MIA | Jason Taylor HOF | 199703073 | DE | Akron |
| 3 | 74 | SDG | Michael Hamilton | 199703074 | LB | North Carolina A&T |
| 3 | 75 | TEN | Denard Walker | 199703075 | DB | LSU |
| 3 | 76 | CIN | Rod Payne | 199703076 | C | Michigan |
| 3 | 77 | SF | Greg Clark | 199703077 | TE | Stanford |
| 3 | 78 | MIN | Stalin Colinet | 199703078 | DT | Boston Col. |
| 3 | 79 | JAX | James Hamilton | 199703079 | LB | North Carolina |
| 3 | 80 | WAS | Derek Smith | 199703080 | LB | Arizona St. |
| 3 | 81 | TEN | Scott Sanderson | 199703081 | T | Washington St. |
| 3 | 82 | PIT | Paul Wiggins | 199703082 | T | Oregon |
| 3 | 83 | DAL | Steve Scifres | 199703083 | G | Wyoming |
| 3 | 84 | ARI | Ty Howard | 199703084 | DB | Ohio St. |
| 3 | 85 | OAK | Tim Kohn | 199703085 | T | Iowa St. |
| 3 | 86 | IND | Bertrand Berry | 199703086 | DE | Notre Dame |
| 3 | 87 | CAR | Kinnon Tatum | 199703087 | LB | Notre Dame |
| 3 | 88 | NYJ | Dedric Ward | 199703088 | WR | Northern Iowa |
| 3 | 89 | NE | Chris Carter | 199703089 | DB | Texas |
| 3 | 90 | GB | Brett Conway | 199703090 | K | Penn St. |
| 3 | 91 | PIT | Mike Vrabel | 199703091 | LB | Ohio St. |
| 3 | 92 | MIA | Derrick Rodgers | 199703092 | LB | Arizona St. |
| 3 | 93 | MIA | Ronnie Ward | 199703093 | LB | Kansas |
| 3 | 94 | DAL | Kenny Wheaton | 199703094 | DB | Oregon |
| 3 | 95 | NYG | Brad Maynard | 199703095 | P | Ball St. |
| 3 | 96 | MIA | Brent Smith | 199703096 | G | Mississippi St. |
| 4 | 97 | NE | Damon Denson | 199704097 | G | Michigan |
| 4 | 98 | TEN | Derrick Mason | 199704098 | WR | Michigan St. |
| 4 | 99 | NO | Danny Wuerffel | 199704099 | QB | Florida |
| 4 | 100 | ATL | Henri Crockett | 199704100 | LB | Florida St. |
| 4 | 101 | DAL | Antonio Anderson | 199704101 | DT | Syracuse |
| 4 | 102 | NYJ | Terry Day | 199704102 | DE | Mississippi St. |
| 4 | 103 | NYG | Pete Monty | 199704103 | LB | Wisconsin |
| 4 | 104 | NYJ | Leon Johnson | 199704104 | RB | North Carolina |
| 4 | 105 | CHI | Darnell Autry | 199704105 | RB | Northwestern |
| 4 | 106 | ARI | Chris Dishman | 199704106 | G | Nebraska |
| 4 | 107 | TEN | Pratt Lyons | 199704107 | DE | Troy |
| 4 | 108 | CHI | Marcus Robinson | 199704108 | WR | South Carolina |
| 4 | 109 | SDG | Raleigh Roundtree | 199704109 | G | South Carolina St. |
| 4 | 110 | KC | Pat Barnes | 199704110 | QB | California |
| 4 | 111 | CIN | Tremain Mack | 199704111 | DB | Miami (FL) |
| 4 | 112 | STL | Ryan Tucker | 199704112 | T | TCU |
| 4 | 113 | MIN | Antonio Banks | 199704113 | DB | Virginia Tech |
| 4 | 114 | JAX | Seth Payne | 199704114 | DT | Cornell |
| 4 | 115 | WAS | Albert Connell | 199704115 | WR | Texas A&M |
| 4 | 116 | NO | Keith Poole | 199704116 | WR | Arizona St. |
| 4 | 117 | IND | Monty Montgomery | 199704117 | DB | Houston |
| 4 | 118 | BAL | Tyrus McCloud | 199704118 | LB | Louisville |
| 4 | 119 | PHI | Damien Robinson | 199704119 | DB | Iowa |
| 4 | 120 | BUF | Jamie Nails | 199704120 | G | Florida A&M |
| 4 | 121 | MIA | Jerome Daniels | 199704121 | G | Northeastern |
| 4 | 122 | CAR | Tarek Saleh | 199704122 | LB | Wisconsin |
| 4 | 123 | OAK | Chad Levitt | 199704123 | RB | Cornell |
| 4 | 124 | DEN | Cory Gilliard | 199704124 | DB | Ball St. |
| 4 | 125 | NE | Ed Ellis | 199704125 | T | Buffalo |
| 4 | 126 | GB | Jermaine Smith | 199704126 | DT | Georgia |
| 4 | 127 | DAL | Macey Brooks | 199704127 | WR | James Madison |
| 4 | 128 | TB | Alshermond Singleton | 199704128 | LB | Temple |
| 4 | 129 | DAL | Nicky Sualua | 199704129 | RB | Ohio St. |
| 4 | 130 | DET | Matt Russell | 199704130 | LB | Colorado |
| 5 | 131 | NYJ | Lamont Burns | 199705131 | G | East Carolina |
| 5 | 132 | WAS | Jamel Williams | 199705132 | DB | Nebraska |
| 5 | 133 | ATL | Marcus Wimberly | 199705133 | DB | Miami (FL) |
| 5 | 134 | BAL | Jeff Mitchell | 199705134 | C | Florida |
| 5 | 135 | DET | Pete Chryplewicz | 199705135 | TE | Notre Dame |
| 5 | 136 | NYG | Sam Garnes | 199705136 | DB | Cincinnati |
| 5 | 137 | TB | Patrick Hape | 199705137 | TE | Alabama |
| 5 | 138 | SDG | Kenny Bynum | 199705138 | RB | South Carolina St. |
| 5 | 139 | ARI | Chad Carpenter | 199705139 | WR | Washington St. |
| 5 | 140 | WAS | Keith Thibodeaux | 199705140 | DB | Northwestern St. (LA) |
| 5 | 141 | CHI | Van Hiles | 199705141 | DB | Kentucky |
| 5 | 142 | SEA | Eric Stokes | 199705142 | DB | Nebraska |
| 5 | 143 | TEN | George McCullough | 199705143 | DB | Baylor |
| 5 | 144 | CIN | Andre Purvis | 199705144 | DT | North Carolina |
| 5 | 145 | NYJ | Raymond Austin | 199705145 | DB | Tennessee |
| 5 | 146 | SDG | Paul Bradford | 199705146 | DB | Portland St. |
| 5 | 147 | JAX | Damon Jones | 199705147 | TE | Southern Illinois |
| 5 | 148 | WAS | Twan Russell | 199705148 | LB | Miami (FL) |
| 5 | 149 | MIA | Barron Tanner | 199705149 | DT | Oklahoma |
| 5 | 150 | IND | Nate Jacquet | 199705150 | WR | San Diego St. |
| 5 | 151 | MIN | Tony Williams | 199705151 | DT | Memphis |
| 5 | 152 | PHI | N.D. Kalu | 199705152 | DE | Rice |
| 5 | 153 | BUF | Sean Woodson | 199705153 | DB | Jackson St. |
| 5 | 154 | PIT | George Jones | 199705154 | RB | San Diego St. |
| 5 | 155 | PHI | Luther Broughton | 199705155 | TE | Furman |
| 5 | 156 | IND | Carl Powell | 199705156 | DE | Louisville |
| 5 | 157 | MIA | Nicholas Lopez | 199705157 | DE | Texas Southern |
| 5 | 158 | STL | Taje Allen | 199705158 | DB | Texas |
| 5 | 159 | NE | Vernon Crawford | 199705159 | LB | Florida St. |
| 5 | 160 | GB | Anthony Hicks | 199705160 | LB | Arkansas |
| 5 | 161 | DET | Duane Ashman | 199705161 | DE | Virginia |
| 5 | 162 | WAS | Brad Badger | 199705162 | G | Stanford |
| 5 | 163 | KC | June Henley | 199705163 | RB | Kansas |
| 6 | 164 | NYJ | Tim Scharf | 199706164 | LB | Northwestern |
| 6 | 165 | NO | Nick Savoie | 199706165 | TE | LSU |
| 6 | 166 | MIA | John Fiala | 199706166 | LB | Washington |
| 6 | 167 | BAL | Steve Lee | 199706167 | RB | Indiana |
| 6 | 168 | DET | Tony Ramirez | 199706168 | T | Northern Colorado |
| 6 | 169 | TB | Al Harris | 199706169 | DB | Texas A&M-Kingsville |
| 6 | 170 | MIA | Brian Manning | 199706170 | WR | Stanford |
| 6 | 171 | NYG | Mike Cherry | 199706171 | QB | Murray St. |
| 6 | 172 | OAK | Calvin Branch | 199706172 | DB | Colorado St. |
| 6 | 173 | MIA | Mike Crawford | 199706173 | LB | Nevada |
| 6 | 174 | SEA | Itula Mili | 199706174 | TE | BYU |
| 6 | 175 | ARI | Rod Brown | 199706175 | RB | North Carolina St. |
| 6 | 176 | CIN | Canute Curtis | 199706176 | LB | West Virginia |
| 6 | 177 | MIA | Ed Perry | 199706177 | TE | James Madison |
| 6 | 178 | SDG | Daniel Palmer | 199706178 | C | Air Force |
| 6 | 179 | STL | Muadianvita Kazadi | 199706179 | LB | Tulsa |
| 6 | 180 | ATL | Calvin Collins | 199706180 | G | Texas A&M |
| 6 | 181 | TEN | Dennis Stallings | 199706181 | LB | Illinois |
| 6 | 182 | IND | Scott Von der Ahe | 199706182 | LB | Arizona St. |
| 6 | 183 | MIN | Robert Tate | 199706183 | DB | Cincinnati |
| 6 | 184 | JAX | Daimon Shelton | 199706184 | FB | Sacramento St. |
| 6 | 185 | BUF | Marcus Spriggs | 199706185 | T | Houston |
| 6 | 186 | PIT | Daryl Porter | 199706186 | DB | Boston Col. |
| 6 | 187 | DAL | Lee Vaughn | 199706187 | DB | Wyoming |
| 6 | 188 | ARI | Tony McCombs | 199706188 | LB | East. Kentucky |
| 6 | 189 | CAR | Matt Finkes | 199706189 | DE | Ohio St. |
| 6 | 190 | PHI | Antwuan Wyatt | 199706190 | WR | Bethune-Cookman |
| 6 | 191 | NYJ | Chuck Clements | 199706191 | QB | Houston |
| 6 | 192 | NE | Tony Gaiter | 199706192 | WR | Miami (FL) |
| 6 | 193 | OAK | Grady Jackson | 199706193 | DT | Knoxville |
| 6 | 194 | BAL | Cornell Brown | 199706194 | LB | Virginia Tech |
| 6 | 195 | KC | Isaac Byrd | 199706195 | WR | Kansas |
| 6 | 196 | CHI | Shawn Swayda | 199706196 | DE | Arizona St. |
| 6 | 197 | TB | Nigea Carter | 199706197 | WR | Michigan St. |
| 6 | 198 | PHI | Ed Jasper | 199706198 | DT | Texas A&M |
| 6 | 199 | PIT | Rod Manuel | 199706199 | DE | Oklahoma |
| 6 | 200 | CHI | Richard Hogans | 199706200 | LB | Memphis |
| 6 | 201 | CHI | Ricky Parker | 199706201 | DB | San Diego St. |
| 7 | 202 | NYJ | Steve Rosga | 199707202 | DB | Colorado |
| 7 | 203 | MIA | Hudhaifa Ismaeli | 199707203 | DB | Northwestern |
| 7 | 204 | ATL | Tony Graziani | 199707204 | QB | Oregon |
| 7 | 205 | BAL | Chris Ward | 199707205 | DE | Kentucky |
| 7 | 206 | DET | Terry Battle | 199707206 | RB | Arizona St. |
| 7 | 207 | PHI | Koy Detmer | 199707207 | QB | Colorado |
| 7 | 208 | NYG | Matt Keneley | 199707208 | DT | USC |
| 7 | 209 | TB | Anthony DeGrate | 199707209 | DT | S.F. Austin |
| 7 | 210 | CHI | Mike Miano | 199707210 | DT | Missouri State |
| 7 | 211 | SEA | Carlos Jones | 199707211 | DB | Miami (FL) |
| 7 | 212 | ARI | Mark Smith | 199707212 | DT | Auburn |
| 7 | 213 | GB | Chris Miller | 199707213 | WR | USC |
| 7 | 214 | KC | Nathan Parks | 199707214 | T | Stanford |
| 7 | 215 | STL | Cedric White | 199707215 | DE | North Carolina A&T |
| 7 | 216 | TEN | Armon Williams | 199707216 | DB | Arizona |
| 7 | 217 | CIN | William Carr | 199707217 | DT | Michigan |
| 7 | 218 | SDG | Toran James | 199707218 | LB | North Carolina A&T |
| 7 | 219 | IND | Clarence Thompson | 199707219 | DB | Knoxville |
| 7 | 220 | MIN | Artie Ulmer | 199707220 | LB | Valdosta St. |
| 7 | 221 | JAX | Jon Hesse | 199707221 | LB | Nebraska |
| 7 | 222 | ATL | Chris Bayne | 199707222 | DB | Fresno St. |
| 7 | 223 | PIT | Mike Adams | 199707223 | WR | Texas |
| 7 | 224 | DAL | Omar Stoutmire | 199707224 | DB | Fresno St. |
| 7 | 225 | PHI | Byron Capers | 199707225 | DB | Florida St. |
| 7 | 226 | BUF | Pat Fitzgerald | 199707226 | TE | Texas |
| 7 | 227 | PHI | DeAuntae Brown | 199707227 | DB | Central State (OH) |
| 7 | 228 | CAR | Kris Mangum | 199707228 | TE | Mississippi |
| 7 | 229 | NYJ | Jason Ferguson | 199707229 | DT | Georgia |
| 7 | 230 | NE | Scott Rehberg | 199707230 | G | Central Michigan |
| 7 | 231 | GB | Jerald Sowell | 199707231 | FB | Tulane |
| 7 | 232 | DET | Marcus Harris | 199707232 | WR | Wyoming |
| 7 | 233 | CHI | Marvin Thomas | 199707233 | DE | Memphis |
| 7 | 234 | BAL | Wally Richardson | 199707234 | QB | Penn St. |
| 7 | 235 | MIN | Matthew Hatchette | 199707235 | WR | Langston |
| 7 | 236 | BAL | Ralph Staten | 199707236 | DB | Alabama |
| 7 | 237 | SDG | Tony Corbin | 199707237 | QB | Sacramento St. |
| 7 | 238 | BAL | Leland Taylor | 199707238 | DT | Louisville |
| 7 | 239 | DET | Richard Jordan | 199707239 | LB | Missouri Southern |
| 7 | 240 | GB | Ron McAda | 199707240 | QB | Army |
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