teams that selected them for the 1983 season. Elway, who had made his antipathy towards the Colts known long before the draft, was also a promising baseball player in the New York Yankees organization. With Yankees owner George Steinbrenner aggressively pursuing a commitment from Elway to play baseball full-time, Elway and his agent, Marvin Demoff, successfully leveraged the threat of Elway abandoning football altogether to compel the Colts to trade Elway to the Broncos a few days after selecting him with the first overall pick of the draft. Kelly, the other holdout, instead signed with the Houston Gamblers of the United States Football League (USFL), where he led the springtime circuit in passing in both 1984 and 1985. Kelly was set to play for the New Jersey Generals when the USFL planned to switch to a fall season in 1986, but when the USFL won only $1 (trebled to $3) from its antitrust lawsuit vs. the NFL on July 29, 1986, Kelly finally signed with the Bills three weeks later. Including the aforementioned Elway, Kelly, and Marino, a total of seven players drafted in the first round have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and eight players overall have been inducted. Each round of this draft also contained at least one player who was later selected to play in the Pro Bowl. Several websites, including Bleacher Report and Athlon Sports, have called the class of 1983 the greatest of all time. Player selections Round one {|class="wikitable sortable sortable" style="width: 100%" |- !style="background:#A8BDEC;" width=7%|Pick # !!width=42% style="background:#A8BDEC;"|NFL Team !!width=15% style="background:#A8BDEC;"|Player !!width=16% style="background:#A8BDEC;"|Position !!width=20% style="background:#A8BDEC;"|College |- |align=center|1||Baltimore Colts (rights later traded to Denver)||bgcolor="#FFCC00"|John Elway||Quarterback||Stanford |- |align=center|2||Los Angeles Rams (from Houston through Seattle)||bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Eric Dickerson||Running Back||SMU |- |align=center|3||Seattle Seahawks (from Los Angeles Rams)||bgcolor="#faecc8"|Curt Warner||Running Back||Penn State |- |align=center|4||Denver Broncos(rights later traded to Baltimore)||bgcolor="#faecc8"|Chris Hinton||Guard||Northwestern |- |align=center|5||San Diego Chargers (from San Francisco)||Billy Ray Smith||Linebacker||Arkansas |- |align=center|6||Chicago Bears||bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Jim Covert||Offensive Tackle||Pittsburgh |- |align=center|7||Kansas City Chiefs||Todd Blackledge||Quarterback||Penn State |- |align=center|8||Philadelphia Eagles||Michael Haddix||Running Back||Mississippi State |- |align=center|9||Houston Oilers (from Seattle)||bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Bruce Matthews||Offensive Tackle||USC |- |align=center|10||New York Giants||bgcolor="#faecc8"|Terry Kinard || Safety ||Clemson |- |align=center|11||Green Bay Packers (from New Orleans)||Tim Lewis||Cornerback||Pittsburgh |- |align=center|12||Buffalo Bills||Tony Hunter||Tight End||Notre Dame |- |align=center|13||Detroit Lions||James Jones||Fullback||Florida |- |align=center|14||Buffalo Bills (from Cleveland)||bgcolor="#FFCC00"|Jim Kelly||Quarterback||Miami (FL) |- |align=center|15||New England Patriots||Tony Eason||Quarterback||Illinois |- |align=center|16||Atlanta Falcons||Mike Pitts||Defensive End||Alabama |- |align=center|17||St. Louis Cardinals||Leonard Smith||Cornerback||McNeese State |- |align=center|18||Chicago Bears (from Tampa Bay)||Willie Gault||Wide Receiver||Tennessee |- |align=center|19||Minnesota Vikings||bgcolor="#faecc8"|Joey Browner||Cornerback||USC |- |align=center|20||San Diego