The assumption is that a team's first pick will be its best player in that respective draft.
Here are prior bests (where they ranked in the draft class):
2005: Ronnie Brown (1st taken)
2004: Vernon Carey (1st)
2003: Donald Lee (4th)
2002: Randy McMichael (2nd)
2001: Chris Chambers (2nd)
2000: Todd Wade (1st)
1999: Rob Konrad (2nd)
1998: Patrick Surtain (2nd)
1997: Jason Taylor (3rd)
1996: Zach Thomas (8th)
1995: Norman Hand (4th)
1994: Tim Bowens (1st)
1993: O.J. McDuffie (1st)
1992: Troy Vincent (1st)
1991: Bryan Cox (3rd)
1990: Richmond Webb (1st)
1989: Louis Oliver (2nd)
1988: Jeff Cross (11th)
1987: Troy Stradford (4th)
link to rest of story
http://blogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports_seasonticket/2008/05/fins-rest-of-dr.html
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Man the fact that Rob Konrad and Donald Lee are on that list says something about those drafts.
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Ronnie Brown was the second pick...
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maybe they were saying he was the 1st running back taken?:confused2:
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they are meaning which pick of ours... so Ronnie was our first, just like Carey was our first, etc