[Music]
no one is going to stop this from
happening
first now take a straight drop close it
over the middle sometimes finishing in
last place can be a good thing if it
means drafting a player that can
rejuvenate your franchise he warned the
Colts beforehand that he wouldn’t sign
with them and they drafted him anyway
and and Elway wasn’t going to play there
I mean he was that kind of stubborn guy
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
franchise changing number one draft
picks Cam Newton’s gonna run trucking
right ten to the five sleep for the Mojo
touchdown Shamu the legend grows
everybody’s get to see you do your thing
young man for this list we’re looking at
those players in any league that were
chosen first overall in their draft year
who completely turned things around for
the team that drafted them and helped
the franchise reach championship glory
that means they had to win a
championship with that team to qualify
Patrick used his quickness to beat the
defender down the ice and his vision to
spot the open space number 10 Darryl
Strawberry the New York Mets
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selected first overall by the New York
Mets in the 1980 draft the six-foot-six
strawberry made his debut with the club
a few years later in 1983 when he won
the National League’s Rookie of the Year
the first of many accomplishments in
strawberry’s impressive major-league
career how sweet it is
that’s a mouthful of air with him at the
helm the Mets found themselves at the
top of their division most years
eventually winning the 1986 World Series
in a seven-game series against the
Boston Red Sox
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[Applause]
while strawberry had a troubled
relationship with his coaches and
teammates including Mets team captain
Keith Hernandez the New York fanbase
adored him and his unique batting stance
and it’s not hard to see why and the
Mets win it on strawberry’s two-run home
run in the 10th inning number nine Troy
Aikman the Dallas Cowboys
[Applause]
not all game-changing first overall
draft picks start off strong Troy Aikman
finished his rookie season with the
Cowboys 0 and 11 in games he started
throwing twice as many pics as
touchdowns
not exactly the stats Dallas fans were
hoping for from their young superstar
quarterback coming out of the draft but
as the Cowboys acquired more offensive
weapons like Emmitt Smith to help Aikman
and players like Michael Irvin stepped
up as well the team gained momentum and
the QB started to live up to
expectations I had an ability to throw
the pass pretty much where I wanted I
was always very accurate supersonic
laser plan the Cowboys won three Super
Bowl championships during a common stick
with the team with the quarterback named
MVP in Super Bowl 27 crow Eggman’s the
MVP is a great feeling and a great thing
to be a part of number eight Patrick
Kane the Chicago Blackhawks
for the 2006 2007 NHL season the Chicago
Blackhawks were among the NHL’s worst
teams only managing 31 wins in the 82
games the pass to Erickson in front to
let the nice guy
the silver lining they nabbed the first
overall draft pick in that summer’s
draft and with it they selected Patrick
Kane one of the most prolific scorers in
the modern NHL Kane has already been
established as a premier player in the
league winning the Conn Smythe the Hart
Memorial and the Art Ross Trophy and
lastly our fans in Chicago we have the
best fans whether it’s at home or on the
road we travel so well and it’s almost
like every games a home game for us so
thank you very much and dad this one’s
for you I love it with the help of 2006
s third overall pick jonathan tapes kane
led his team to an astounding 3 Stanley
Cup victories between 2010 and 2015
number seven Tim Duncan the San Antonio
Spurs in that time he tells the borrowed
him we’re just too small after climbing
up from the bottom of the league thanks
to the dominance of their 1987 first
overall pick David Robinson the Spurs
found themselves right back where they
started when an injured Robinson missed
most of a disastrous 1996-97 season in
which they finished with only 20 wins
I don’t remember Chuck maybe you recall
a team that’s missed this many player
games of substantial players in one
season on the bright side they had
another chance to pick first overall and
selected Tim Duncan to round off an
already stellar lineup Duncan and
Robinson were known as the Twin Towers
winning two titles together once
Robinson retired Duncan took over as
leader of the Spurs guiding them to
another three NBA championships without
him for a grand total of five how does
your team climb the mountain back to NBA
champion
great coaching persistence drive love
for the game number six Terry Bradshaw
the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1969 the
Pittsburgh Steelers were a young team
about to hit a turning point after
finishing with an abysmal 1 and 13
record a coin toss awarded them the
first overall pick in the 1970 draft
with it
they chose a promising young quarterback
from Louisiana Tech who turned out to be
their ticket to success living in the
city of Pittsburgh didn’t exactly one of
my goals in life Bradshaw is a four-time
Super Bowl champion and a two-time Super
Bowl MVP with all of those titles coming
within a six-year span a born leader and
playmaker Bradshaw is one of the
greatest quarterbacks in NFL history
[Applause]
playing his entire 14 season career
wearing the black and gold Bradshaw not
only changed the Steelers franchise
forever he changed the game forever
Super Bowl 13 captured by the Pittsburgh
Steelers number 5 Hakeem Olajuwon the
Houston Rockets the used in Iraq kids
who are represented here by owner
Charlie Thomas and his daughter Tracy
select Hakeem Olajuwon the University of
Youth in the Rockets finished dead last
in the NBA for the second year in a row
in the 1983-84 season scoring another
first overall pick they had their choice
of names like Michael Jordan Charles
Barkley and John Stockton they opted
instead for a seven-foot Nigerian center
and the Hakeem Olajuwon era began
although he didn’t win Olajuwon was the
only rookie other than Jordan to receive
any votes for 1984’s Rookie of the Year
as he was a dominant presence from the
moment he walked onto the scene
Olajuwon led the Rockets to their first
NBA championship title in franchise
history in 1994 and repeated for a
second title the next year he was named
NBA Finals MVP both years 94 number for
Peyton Manning the Indianapolis Colts
the Indianapolis Colts select
quarterback University of Tennessee
while many people believed Ryan Leaf to
be the best quarterback in the draft the
Indianapolis Colts chose Peyton Manning
with the first selection in the 1998
draft and in hindsight the decision
couldn’t have been easier today
Manning’s a strong candidate for best QB
ever while Leafs NFL career was over by
2002 listen don’t talk to me all right
knock it off
while manning’s impact on the team’s
record wasn’t immediate the Colts slowly
began to trend upwards soon their young
quarterback had transformed them from
one of the league’s worst teams into a
Super Bowl contender 1971 Manning
brought the Super Bowl title to
Indianapolis for the first time with a
win over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl
41 and will always be remembered for
reinvigorating the franchise the first
thing was to get the Colts from being
what I call a circled win on the
schedule when the schedule comes out and
the coaches you got I’ve got an Indy
here that’s a win I’m going to play
green bass can be tough I’ve got an Indy
again that’s another win you know that’s
what that’s what the Colts wore number
three LeBron James the Cleveland
Cavaliers with the first pick in the
2003 NBA Draft the Cleveland Cavaliers
select LeBron James
selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in
the 2003 draft Ohio native LeBron James
was only the second player in NBA
history drafted first overall right out
of high school
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a dominant force from his first game
James made the decision to leave
Cleveland in 2010 and took his talents
to South Beach where with the help of
superstars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh
he won back-to-back championships with
the Miami Heat
Miami Heat are once again NBA champions
LeBron James captures that elusive title
he’s so desperately coveted ultimately
James returned to the Cavs in 2014 and
finally won a championship for the team
that drafted him two years later after a
dramatic seven-game series against the
record shattering Golden State Warriors
I’ll set out a goal two years when I
came back to bring a championship to the
city I gave everything that I had I put
my heart my blood my sweat my tears hit
his dad down three games to one LeBron
put the team on his back to win three
games in a row cementing himself as
playoff MVP and one of the greatest of
all time what’s going on right now it’s
still so surreal to me it still hasn’t
hit me what actually happened not enough
for some odd for some crazy-ass reason I
believe like I’m gonna wake up and it’s
going to be like Game four all over
again I’m like me down to one still
number two Sidney Crosby the Pittsburgh
Penguins Pittsburgh Penguins select from
Rimouski the Quebec Major Junior League
Sidney Crosby with a nickname like the
next one expectations were high for a
young Sidney Crosby coming out of his
astonishing junior hockey career the
Penguins had a rough time in the early
2000s ultimately finishing last in the
NHL leading up to the 2004-2005 lockout
but that allowed the Pens to nab Crosby
in 2005 mentored by former penguin Mario
Lemieux Sid the kid then led Pittsburgh
to the Stanley Cup final in 2008 where
they lost to the Detroit Red Wings
however the very next year they had a
chance at redemption and took it
defeating Detroit in seven games to win
the cup with Crosby becoming the
youngest captain in NHL history to lead
– a Stanley Cup victory he would take
home another cup for Pittsburgh in 2016
it’s the captain’s honor to hoist the
Stanley Cup Sidney Crosby come on back
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions he was
just so fluid he was so unstoppable he
had the shot that that nobody could deal
with the the skyhook anytime he wanted
to score he could score from the
Canadian Hockey League and the Rimouski
Oceania and the marubi oceanic this.ka
in 1999 the super bowl year Orlando pace
allowed only five point five sacks and
the Rams averaged five point six yards
per carry running through the left side
of the field number one Mario Lemieux
the Pittsburgh Penguins Pittsburgh
blemish where the Pittsburgh number
Swiss on sis Mario Lemieux
towards the end of an already horrible
1983-84 season the Penguins were accused
of throwing games to get the chance to
draft Mahamaya first overall and
honestly who could blame them before the
magnificent one joined the team
the Penguins organization had gone
bankrupt and considered either folding
or relocating fortunately for Pittsburgh
hockey fans super mario led Pittsburgh
to their first Stanley Cup win in 1991
and their second the following season
Stanley come around and come back the
Pittsburgh undoubtedly one of the
greatest players to ever lace up his
skates the NIA breathed new life into a
franchise that was ready to call it
quits battling through health problems
to play most of seventeen seasons in the
NHL all of which he spent wearing a
Penn’s Jersey
well hockey to me is my whole life and
the game is giving me a lot all
throughout my career
the game means everything do you agree
with our list do you believe it it is 12
6 Yankees they got what they waited for
who do you think are the most impactful
number one draft picks of all time
Bradshaw is dumb enough to spell w-i
10-4 more exciting top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com that precise moment
when you know that the next ball game
will be in the Super Bowl it’s it is I
just assess doesn’t get any better then
get any better than that
[Music]
you
no one is going to stop this from
happening
first now take a straight drop close it
over the middle sometimes finishing in
last place can be a good thing if it
means drafting a player that can
rejuvenate your franchise he warned the
Colts beforehand that he wouldn’t sign
with them and they drafted him anyway
and and Elway wasn’t going to play there
I mean he was that kind of stubborn guy
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
franchise changing number one draft
picks Cam Newton’s gonna run trucking
right ten to the five sleep for the Mojo
touchdown Shamu the legend grows
everybody’s get to see you do your thing
young man for this list we’re looking at
those players in any league that were
chosen first overall in their draft year
who completely turned things around for
the team that drafted them and helped
the franchise reach championship glory
that means they had to win a
championship with that team to qualify
Patrick used his quickness to beat the
defender down the ice and his vision to
spot the open space number 10 Darryl
Strawberry the New York Mets
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
[Music]
selected first overall by the New York
Mets in the 1980 draft the six-foot-six
strawberry made his debut with the club
a few years later in 1983 when he won
the National League’s Rookie of the Year
the first of many accomplishments in
strawberry’s impressive major-league
career how sweet it is
that’s a mouthful of air with him at the
helm the Mets found themselves at the
top of their division most years
eventually winning the 1986 World Series
in a seven-game series against the
Boston Red Sox
[Applause]
[Music]
[Applause]
while strawberry had a troubled
relationship with his coaches and
teammates including Mets team captain
Keith Hernandez the New York fanbase
adored him and his unique batting stance
and it’s not hard to see why and the
Mets win it on strawberry’s two-run home
run in the 10th inning number nine Troy
Aikman the Dallas Cowboys
[Applause]
not all game-changing first overall
draft picks start off strong Troy Aikman
finished his rookie season with the
Cowboys 0 and 11 in games he started
throwing twice as many pics as
touchdowns
not exactly the stats Dallas fans were
hoping for from their young superstar
quarterback coming out of the draft but
as the Cowboys acquired more offensive
weapons like Emmitt Smith to help Aikman
and players like Michael Irvin stepped
up as well the team gained momentum and
the QB started to live up to
expectations I had an ability to throw
the pass pretty much where I wanted I
was always very accurate supersonic
laser plan the Cowboys won three Super
Bowl championships during a common stick
with the team with the quarterback named
MVP in Super Bowl 27 crow Eggman’s the
MVP is a great feeling and a great thing
to be a part of number eight Patrick
Kane the Chicago Blackhawks
for the 2006 2007 NHL season the Chicago
Blackhawks were among the NHL’s worst
teams only managing 31 wins in the 82
games the pass to Erickson in front to
let the nice guy
the silver lining they nabbed the first
overall draft pick in that summer’s
draft and with it they selected Patrick
Kane one of the most prolific scorers in
the modern NHL Kane has already been
established as a premier player in the
league winning the Conn Smythe the Hart
Memorial and the Art Ross Trophy and
lastly our fans in Chicago we have the
best fans whether it’s at home or on the
road we travel so well and it’s almost
like every games a home game for us so
thank you very much and dad this one’s
for you I love it with the help of 2006
s third overall pick jonathan tapes kane
led his team to an astounding 3 Stanley
Cup victories between 2010 and 2015
number seven Tim Duncan the San Antonio
Spurs in that time he tells the borrowed
him we’re just too small after climbing
up from the bottom of the league thanks
to the dominance of their 1987 first
overall pick David Robinson the Spurs
found themselves right back where they
started when an injured Robinson missed
most of a disastrous 1996-97 season in
which they finished with only 20 wins
I don’t remember Chuck maybe you recall
a team that’s missed this many player
games of substantial players in one
season on the bright side they had
another chance to pick first overall and
selected Tim Duncan to round off an
already stellar lineup Duncan and
Robinson were known as the Twin Towers
winning two titles together once
Robinson retired Duncan took over as
leader of the Spurs guiding them to
another three NBA championships without
him for a grand total of five how does
your team climb the mountain back to NBA
champion
great coaching persistence drive love
for the game number six Terry Bradshaw
the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1969 the
Pittsburgh Steelers were a young team
about to hit a turning point after
finishing with an abysmal 1 and 13
record a coin toss awarded them the
first overall pick in the 1970 draft
with it
they chose a promising young quarterback
from Louisiana Tech who turned out to be
their ticket to success living in the
city of Pittsburgh didn’t exactly one of
my goals in life Bradshaw is a four-time
Super Bowl champion and a two-time Super
Bowl MVP with all of those titles coming
within a six-year span a born leader and
playmaker Bradshaw is one of the
greatest quarterbacks in NFL history
[Applause]
playing his entire 14 season career
wearing the black and gold Bradshaw not
only changed the Steelers franchise
forever he changed the game forever
Super Bowl 13 captured by the Pittsburgh
Steelers number 5 Hakeem Olajuwon the
Houston Rockets the used in Iraq kids
who are represented here by owner
Charlie Thomas and his daughter Tracy
select Hakeem Olajuwon the University of
Youth in the Rockets finished dead last
in the NBA for the second year in a row
in the 1983-84 season scoring another
first overall pick they had their choice
of names like Michael Jordan Charles
Barkley and John Stockton they opted
instead for a seven-foot Nigerian center
and the Hakeem Olajuwon era began
although he didn’t win Olajuwon was the
only rookie other than Jordan to receive
any votes for 1984’s Rookie of the Year
as he was a dominant presence from the
moment he walked onto the scene
Olajuwon led the Rockets to their first
NBA championship title in franchise
history in 1994 and repeated for a
second title the next year he was named
NBA Finals MVP both years 94 number for
Peyton Manning the Indianapolis Colts
the Indianapolis Colts select
quarterback University of Tennessee
while many people believed Ryan Leaf to
be the best quarterback in the draft the
Indianapolis Colts chose Peyton Manning
with the first selection in the 1998
draft and in hindsight the decision
couldn’t have been easier today
Manning’s a strong candidate for best QB
ever while Leafs NFL career was over by
2002 listen don’t talk to me all right
knock it off
while manning’s impact on the team’s
record wasn’t immediate the Colts slowly
began to trend upwards soon their young
quarterback had transformed them from
one of the league’s worst teams into a
Super Bowl contender 1971 Manning
brought the Super Bowl title to
Indianapolis for the first time with a
win over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl
41 and will always be remembered for
reinvigorating the franchise the first
thing was to get the Colts from being
what I call a circled win on the
schedule when the schedule comes out and
the coaches you got I’ve got an Indy
here that’s a win I’m going to play
green bass can be tough I’ve got an Indy
again that’s another win you know that’s
what that’s what the Colts wore number
three LeBron James the Cleveland
Cavaliers with the first pick in the
2003 NBA Draft the Cleveland Cavaliers
select LeBron James
selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers in
the 2003 draft Ohio native LeBron James
was only the second player in NBA
history drafted first overall right out
of high school
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a dominant force from his first game
James made the decision to leave
Cleveland in 2010 and took his talents
to South Beach where with the help of
superstars Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh
he won back-to-back championships with
the Miami Heat
Miami Heat are once again NBA champions
LeBron James captures that elusive title
he’s so desperately coveted ultimately
James returned to the Cavs in 2014 and
finally won a championship for the team
that drafted him two years later after a
dramatic seven-game series against the
record shattering Golden State Warriors
I’ll set out a goal two years when I
came back to bring a championship to the
city I gave everything that I had I put
my heart my blood my sweat my tears hit
his dad down three games to one LeBron
put the team on his back to win three
games in a row cementing himself as
playoff MVP and one of the greatest of
all time what’s going on right now it’s
still so surreal to me it still hasn’t
hit me what actually happened not enough
for some odd for some crazy-ass reason I
believe like I’m gonna wake up and it’s
going to be like Game four all over
again I’m like me down to one still
number two Sidney Crosby the Pittsburgh
Penguins Pittsburgh Penguins select from
Rimouski the Quebec Major Junior League
Sidney Crosby with a nickname like the
next one expectations were high for a
young Sidney Crosby coming out of his
astonishing junior hockey career the
Penguins had a rough time in the early
2000s ultimately finishing last in the
NHL leading up to the 2004-2005 lockout
but that allowed the Pens to nab Crosby
in 2005 mentored by former penguin Mario
Lemieux Sid the kid then led Pittsburgh
to the Stanley Cup final in 2008 where
they lost to the Detroit Red Wings
however the very next year they had a
chance at redemption and took it
defeating Detroit in seven games to win
the cup with Crosby becoming the
youngest captain in NHL history to lead
– a Stanley Cup victory he would take
home another cup for Pittsburgh in 2016
it’s the captain’s honor to hoist the
Stanley Cup Sidney Crosby come on back
before we unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions he was
just so fluid he was so unstoppable he
had the shot that that nobody could deal
with the the skyhook anytime he wanted
to score he could score from the
Canadian Hockey League and the Rimouski
Oceania and the marubi oceanic this.ka
in 1999 the super bowl year Orlando pace
allowed only five point five sacks and
the Rams averaged five point six yards
per carry running through the left side
of the field number one Mario Lemieux
the Pittsburgh Penguins Pittsburgh
blemish where the Pittsburgh number
Swiss on sis Mario Lemieux
towards the end of an already horrible
1983-84 season the Penguins were accused
of throwing games to get the chance to
draft Mahamaya first overall and
honestly who could blame them before the
magnificent one joined the team
the Penguins organization had gone
bankrupt and considered either folding
or relocating fortunately for Pittsburgh
hockey fans super mario led Pittsburgh
to their first Stanley Cup win in 1991
and their second the following season
Stanley come around and come back the
Pittsburgh undoubtedly one of the
greatest players to ever lace up his
skates the NIA breathed new life into a
franchise that was ready to call it
quits battling through health problems
to play most of seventeen seasons in the
NHL all of which he spent wearing a
Penn’s Jersey
well hockey to me is my whole life and
the game is giving me a lot all
throughout my career
the game means everything do you agree
with our list do you believe it it is 12
6 Yankees they got what they waited for
who do you think are the most impactful
number one draft picks of all time
Bradshaw is dumb enough to spell w-i
10-4 more exciting top 10s published
every day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com that precise moment
when you know that the next ball game
will be in the Super Bowl it’s it is I
just assess doesn’t get any better then
get any better than that
[Music]
you
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