Fun Fact: After the 1974 draft concluded, the Steelers signed an undrafted safety by the name of Donnie Shell, the same Donnie Shell who was inducted into the Hall of Fame last year! Making that FIVE ROOKIES the Steelers signed during the 1974 offseason that went on to become Hall of Famers. Bill Nunn was a god-level scout.

@alwaysoctane6515

3 жыл бұрын

WOW!

@pathutchison9866

3 жыл бұрын

Which is why they FINALLY put Nunn in the Hall, where he belongs and HAS belonged for decades. Good comment friend.

@user-iq1ch1se3j

3 жыл бұрын

​@@pathutchison9866Exactly! His Wikipedia page is very depressing to look at, way too little information about his role in giving Coach Noll the talent to work with.

@donaldle6065

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-iq1ch1se3j highly recommend the book, Their Life's Work by Gary Pomerantz if you've never had the chance to read it! It's a great insight into the inner workings of the 70s dynasty and of course gives a great look at just how instrumental Nunn was and where he fit in with the Steelers brass in those days.

@SteelersFan1969

3 жыл бұрын

Yep. He had access to the black Majority colleges because he knew people there, and look at that

I love these shows. I’m really trying to study up on the history of the league. RIP Chris Wesseling.

@ericsmith6823

3 жыл бұрын

amen

@aperez12374

3 жыл бұрын

Me in high school

@mrhead6856

2 жыл бұрын

Nerd

cmon nfl or nfl films please release more of these , this is gold to true football fans!

@DNSKansas

3 жыл бұрын

1971 when Plunkett, Archie and Pastorini went 1-2-3

I wish they'd do this for every draft from '79-present

@timdennehy7264

2 жыл бұрын

Totally

@AdamKlownzinger

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t know why they have scrubbed the 2004 Caught In The Draft from the internet. It used to be there. They clearly have these things in storage somewhere because they’re uploading most of them.

@TehJew22

Жыл бұрын

Why not 1970 onward

@tiddiesattic

Жыл бұрын

@@TehJew22 the more the merrier

@FTLnovaKid

Жыл бұрын

@@AdamKlownzinger It’s still on here.

Billy "White Shoes" Johnson!!!

Fun fact: Ed "Too Tall" Jones was a guest referee for a battle royale in Wrestlemania 2.

These "Caught in the Draft" episodes are some of the most interesting documentaries I've ever seen. As soon as I saw this was a series, I knew this was the draft where the Steelers drafted 4 straight HOFer's...

@FatManWalking18

2 жыл бұрын

5

Now Bill Nunn is in the HOF. Bout time

The classic NFL films are the best

@ericsmith6823

3 жыл бұрын

amen

NFL Films is the best. The music, the shots, everything was just great. The one man who did the narration was the best.

@area.man.

2 жыл бұрын

It's the only part of the NFL worth watching anymore.

@mmaranta785

2 жыл бұрын

John Facenda, the voice of God

The Steelers had a truly historic in 19 74

@StFidjnr

Жыл бұрын

They owned that draft

It was an honor to be a draftee in such a great draft class!

@Veaseify

3 жыл бұрын

I actually looked for your name...now I understand what you meant :)

@quincee3376

3 жыл бұрын

Right on.

@KTF0

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@juniorloaf12

2 жыл бұрын

Were you actually drafted or do you share a name with someone?

*I love old typewriters*

@TehJew22

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. Until you make a typo.

I remember reading Street and Smith about the draft back in the day.

@sandranorman5469

3 жыл бұрын

Remember when I bought it back in 1980. Street and Smith said when Pittsburgh Steelers cut their players that the other teams hurried to sign the player whatever they needed.

The best draft for 1 team ever 1974 Steelers

I wonder how everyone would feel if Bill Belichick had sat on a film canister the way Pittsburgh did with Stallworth’s in 1974.

@algini12

3 жыл бұрын

Belichick did enough to the Steelers later in 2002 with the Cheatriots. He knew what the Steelers were going to do, before the players knew in that Championship game.

@stephenmachen7813

2 жыл бұрын

not even a place you want to go.. THE BIGGEST CHEATERS EVER. f'n pats

@jacobwilliams1223

Жыл бұрын

@@algini12 Your comment kinda proves the other guy's point.

@algini12

Жыл бұрын

@@jacobwilliams1223 That would be the case, if the knowing what they were going to do, wasn't in Championship games. The Steelers sat on a film can for a player. The Pats relayed signals in those Championship games. Biiiiig difference.

@perryellis1423

Жыл бұрын

The Patriots with Bill belilcheat are cheaters and get no respect that's why no one has any of their teams on the greatest of all time teams. Unlike the Steelers, cowboys, 49ers, Packers, raiders, etc. Not the Patriots because everyone knows they cheated spy gate is real not fiction

Binged these last week on ESPN+, they are done so well, nice job NFL films! 👏

@ryanarteaga7505

3 жыл бұрын

Binged what exactly?

@nebraskajoenelson8987

3 жыл бұрын

@@ryanarteaga7505 caught in the draft

@ryanarteaga7505

3 жыл бұрын

Keith Cousins ok...?

This was back when teams selected many HBCU players, like Walter Payton (Jackson St), To Tall Jones, (Tenn State), Buck Buchanan, James Harris, and Doug Williams (Grambling), and many more!.

10:46 I’m a Penn State fan and every time I read or hear that part of John Cappelletti’s Heisman Trophy speech about his brother Joey, it always brings tears to my eyes. 😢

I was born in 1974

I wish they updated this to include Donnie shell. He’s now a hall of famer who was undrafted in 1974 and played his entire career for the Steelers. He’s the 6th HoFer in that class and 5th drafted by Pittsburgh. I agree with Ray Didinger 41:55

6:03 Landry, Stallings, Brandt, Schram

I had the pleasure of talking to coach Shula at ATL Airport. He had just been cut by Miami and fans were bugging him for autographs when he got up and came to sit by me. I attended AL with his son Mike and my close friend was his backup QB. When I asked Coach how Mike was doing he literally opened up to me for the next hour. He was so genuine and seemed really glad I wasn’t there to bother him but actually related to him. RIP coach.

The 1973 Steelers were “looking to upgrade themselves in the draft”. As opposed to all the other teams who were looking to get worse. Amazing how so many quotes are just plain meaninglessness.

@slapmyhed

3 жыл бұрын

Without context it does sound obviously true of all teams. But previously the Steelers were trading their draft picks.

Too Tall should be HOF. Imagine that hit on Bradshaw at 20:32 happening now? They would arrest someone haha.

I was at the game when Nat Moore took that hit from Johnnie Lynn. My seats were in ttat zone that end zone. I knew right then that that play would make the evening sports highlight reel. It went on to become legendary!

While the Steelers' 74 draft was unreal, it's also unreal that in Chuck Noll's six drafts from 69 to 74, only ONE of them - 1973 - failed to produce a Hall of Fame player. They got Joe Greene in 69, Terry Bradshaw and Mel Blount in 70, Jack Ham in 71 and Franco Harris in 72, in addition to Swann, Stallworth, Lambert and Webster (plus undrafted Donnie Shell) in 74. That 1974 roster had ten future Hall of Famers out of 48 players.

These videos are so great!! Love learning about the league back before I was born!! It’s awesome keep up the GREAT work NFL FILMS!!!!

Six player's from the 1974 draft class have been enshrined in the NFL HOF, Raiders drafted Casper... Steelers drafted Swann and Lambert and Stallworth and Webster with Shell an (UDFA). These five men went on to help the club win it's first ever Super Bowl plus three more in five year's... No Super Bowl Era team better than the Steelers and the 1976 team was better than the other four year's, no RB's very hard to win. Other Defenses may be better in a single year or Super Bowl, but none of them had the sustainable level of excellence with higher quality of more year's than the 70's Steelers... the HOF committee still is committed to keep L.C. Greenwood out and he should've been inducted a long time ago! Whatever, Steelers will always be the greatest Dynasty ever!

@sandranorman5469

3 жыл бұрын

AMEN AMEN AND AMEN

@NosferatusCoffin

3 жыл бұрын

'76 Steel Curtain had the greatest run, only giving up 29 points in their final 9 games. Best sustained D ever, as well, since they did it for a decade. Best one season D however, were the '77 Falcons. With a halfway competent O, they would have probably won the Super Bowl that year. That D was that good.

Thanks for posting this video. I truly enjoyed every minute.

Was wanting to see a new one of these, thanks NFLFilms!

Love these vids!

When they talk about old drafts like this and about the amount of information out on college players, I remember my subscription to sports illustrated and they featured a Nebraska running back. He never really did anything as a pro but to this day I've always thought he had one of the coolest names around. I. M. Hipp.

It is very stacked for the Steelers because they have 5 future Hall of Famers (Lynn Swann, Jack Lambert, John Stallworth, Mike Webster, and Donnie Shell). Actually 6 Hall of Famers for that 1974 class but there’s only one Hall of Famer who didn’t played for the Steelers was Dave Casper who played most of his career with the Raiders.

Love this series, thanks!

More of this before the draft

@brandonhallahan1793

3 жыл бұрын

Qq

@romangeorge4401

3 жыл бұрын

@Keith Cousins name your future kid Kirk

@romangeorge4401

3 жыл бұрын

@Keith Cousins cool but cnn is trash

@romangeorge4401

3 жыл бұрын

@Keith Cousins ok

@romangeorge4401

3 жыл бұрын

@Keith Cousins that sucks

The music in this video is immaculate!!

Wow. I didnt know this was the Too Tall draft class. And he came from Tennessee State? And they traded to #1 to get him? Insanely smart stuff

@faraway9003

3 жыл бұрын

They traded for the Oilers pick before the 1973 season. They didn’t know at the time it would be #1 overall (but they knew it would be pretty high)

This is a certified hood classic

Billy Parks could have been another Biletnikoff. Was leading the NFL in receptions for the Chargers as a rookie until he broke his arm about midway through the season. One of Parks's legacies is that he was one of the first NFL hippies, his curly blond locks billowing from his helmet. Decades later, an old-school Dallas assistant coach said Parks had had hands like velcro. But the coach remembered that the Cowboys were having a military color guard present the flag & anthem during pre-game while the Vietnam War was still going on. The coach noticed tears on Parks's face. Billy said something like: How can we be doing this when people are dying over there? Decades later, the coach said something like: Now just what do you do with a guy like that?

Been waiting for a new one! THANK YOU.

Please do more of these phenomenal videos NFL Films/NFL Throwback on more Drafts...like 1971, 1976, 1981, 1989, 1996, 2001, 2006, & 2007!

Was a Saints fan back then, was just year after year of poor teams , no hope, bad luck . Coaches that were awfull . An owner that had no sense . Just the thought of going to the playoffs was an impossible fantasy. Made 1987 the best year ever after all this losing

ADD THE 2004 CAUGHT IN THE DRAFT. I KNOW YOU HAVE IT. I WATCHED IT. AND I WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN.

Gill Brandt=badass

Interesting, since it's 10/22 when I'm watching, and seeing Bruce Allen interviewed.

Ed Jones. I can’t tell you how many passes I saw him bat down. Some of them were in big moments that changed the game’s momentum

Keep em coming nfl films!

Everybody is a draft expert except most NFL teams!!!!

Upload all the other CITD episodes!

The future is now!

Most o the Packers core in the 60s was drafted or signed by the team. Many like Starr, Gregg and Nitschke came before Lombardi arrived but they weren't veterans of the street.

@haroldmccoy6748

3 жыл бұрын

Veterans of the street ??? Explain .

Carlester Crumpler may have amazing "funny" name, but he is in N Carolina sports HOF and his son Alge Crumpler turned out pretty good

17:21 Letter Salad Draft: “A 10th Round Choice from Arkansas A M and N...”

We useda do that Billy Johnson dance when we scored in backyard football

Absolutely love these

Who cared about the draft if you were a Washington fan in the 70's while George Allen coached the team. As a kid during that time, I didn't even consider aging players was necessarily a bad thing. I guess I thought they could play into their late 40's. lol

Billy "White Shoes" Johnson! He played on Montreal in the CFL too.

Penn State should go back to having numbers on the helmet.

that stuff is magic. thank you!

Keep uploading these plz.

@ericsigersmith2831

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

This video, wow!

I did not know Pittsburgh had an internal Swann/Stallworth debate in the first round to the point they were seconds away from losing the pick. If that stalemate hadn't been broken, the Cowboys might have been the team of the 70s. I mean Staubach having Swann and Drew Pearson to throw to?? Of course you don't how different things would have gone. But if they somehow still added Dorsett a few drafts later, that offense would have been really unstoppable. Amazing how a few seconds can affect history.

1974 IMO is the birth of mock drafts

I graded Pittsburgh Steelers A-Plus in the 1974 NFL draft 😉👍.

Wait until Cliff Branch gets into the HOF.

@franciscoduran4618

3 жыл бұрын

He should be there and I say this as a Steelers fan.

@ericsigersmith2831

3 жыл бұрын

@@franciscoduran4618 he was a more super star version of DeSean Jackson

@randyhanson4973

3 жыл бұрын

Cliff Branch should've been in the HOF a long time ago

@sandranorman5469

3 жыл бұрын

He deserves to be in HOF as much as Shell.

@randyhanson4973

3 жыл бұрын

@@sandranorman5469 He deserves to be in the HOF as much as any Raider. Cliff Branch played in 22 playoff games. Won 3 Super Bowls & retired as the all time reception leader in post season history. The other Raiders that deserves to be in the HOF is Lester Hayes. Lester has career numbers comparable to Willie Brown.

3 hours 1.1k views. MY generation does not respect football and that's why this video doesn't have views. I am VERY analytical and that's why I will be watching this entire video. Keep passion alive.

@johnhutchison9782

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe we don't like the path NFL football has gone down the last few years. I treasure these old school videos myself, but today's nfl can go pound sand.

@ericsigersmith2831

3 жыл бұрын

Fr i was a pig in poop when I saw this video and I started watching football as a 1st grader in 1996 lmao

@ericsmith6823

3 жыл бұрын

Its why I'm proud to be a packers fan for nfl and Auburn tigers for college because of the loyalty and knowledge of the fans ! And well said on fans not loving this enough

@haroldmccoy6748

3 жыл бұрын

@Rowdy Jr. It's the leading American team sports corporation ,it's not going anywhere .They said the same thing about the nba inthe 197O's and early 8Os ,look what happened ,it blossomed .The nfl is still economically strong ,the nfl draft draws more televised audience then the baseball and nba finals . No sporting event in america can compete with the SB in terms of media coverage .

Randy Gradishar deserves in the HOF.

it just makes me mad billy j isnt in the hall

Please upload more of these before the draft

What an odd and oddly fascinating series this is.

Thing is they don't even talk about draft pick for the Steelers defensive back Jimmy Allen He was obviously caught in the numbers game in Pittsburgh but he won two Super Bowl rings and then when he went to the Lions he was a solid starter for them. His last year in the league at 29 he had 9 interceptions and 31 for his career.

Every old guy in this video wearing a suit speaks like a mob boss.

@areguapiri

2 ай бұрын

Back when men were men.

Quarterbacks named Dan made good punters.

40:38 they been doing this

Bill Nunn should get a place in the HOF he was actually the most insane scout.

Draft classes like the 74 class and even the 83 qb class won't happen today, if they do, then it's a very rare thing

. @01:02 Frank Gifford about to burn one.

"With the 428th pick in the 1974 NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers selected. . . one of the most violent killers in U.S. history. No one is saying football led Randall Woodfield down his dark path-but did it perhaps deter him from it, at least for a while?" by L. JON WERTHEIM

If God's voice is not John Facenda's voice I will be very disapointed

@dhart8451

3 жыл бұрын

John Facenda may have a good voice but he is NOT narrating this video. Get a clue.

@arlindosilva2557

3 жыл бұрын

@@dhart8451 His voice appears at the intro

@dhart8451

3 жыл бұрын

@@arlindosilva2557 Nope, not him.

@arlindosilva2557

3 жыл бұрын

@@dhart8451 the voice saying "Hopes for the new year..." is from Facenda

@parstl3739

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard Facenda handles it half the year and James Earl Jones for the other...🤣

You're not telling the whole story about the #1 pick. Houston had the #1 pick the year before and selected John Matuszack and he was a massive bust, so they probably didn't want to make the same mistake twice.

"The future is now!" - Old Man

Jolly Jack lambert, as Joe greene said "Jack lambert is so mean, he doesn't even like himself"

I love hearing "This draft changed how people felt about being too small etc" what bs!! Doug Flutie was treated poorly because of his height and I'm sure there are heaps of other players you've been overlooked because of their stature.

@quincee3376

3 жыл бұрын

QB is totally different. You are correct but i think he was referring to other positions.

@robertandrews6915

2 жыл бұрын

There are always outliers but typically a certain height weight is looked for at each position. You wouldn't select someone that is 5"8 170 lbs to play as a lineman. Qb height is important because they need to be able to see downfield over people who are well over 6 foot. You can certainly make up for being "short" in other ways but typically qbs need to be at least 6 foot.

Why did you stop making these we should’ve had these every year

TO say the Pittsburgh won the draft is an understatement. Has any team ever drafted that many hall of famers in one draft

Lynn Swann went 21st overall. Dave Gallagher was 20th.

of course, al davis was the first owner to have his own scouting team

24:50 that made me laugh way too loud

Billy Johnson A heart the size of 5 gallon bucket 🪣. I love under rated over motivated running backs. Marcus Allen Billy Johnson John Capeletti .

Until I watched this video, I never knew that my hometown Steelers almost missed Swann by 5 seconds. Even with those Hall of Famers, and with the other hall of Famers the Steelers had in the previous years, that one pick could have made the difference for Dallas. Swann always seemed to play his best games against Dallas. And they were crucial games too. If Dallas would have had him, Dallas might have won two more Superbowls. And according to this film, 5 seconds, 5 SECONDS was all that made the difference. People like to play "What if" all the time, and this is no different. But this is as close as I have ever seen, to what an alternative reality could have been.

@algini12

2 жыл бұрын

@@MegaSsloan Drew was good, maybe even great. But Swann was amazing.

The NFL Network really needs to scrutinize the information it presents its viewers. TWICE in this film I heard that the Steelers took Lynn Swann with the 20th pick, when I've known for years that it was the 21st! This is not the first such mistake I've noticed in the Network's productions since it came to being, but it is too blatantly incorrect to ignore.

Makes me sad to see Mike Webster in this draft. RIP Mike.

A lot of people assume just because you draft a great player he will wind up in the Hall of Fame in fact many of the Steelers players would have wound up in the Hall of Fame if it was not for Chuck Noll's ability to develop them to their fullest potential much like Lombardi did in Green Bay

Fun Fact: The Next Draft after the 1974 Draft was the 1975 Draft.

bengals browns oilers steelers go the old central

it almost makes it seem like all of this is really important or something, lol

At least they’re still calling the goddamn team the Washington Redskins in these past historical show. Don’t care what anyone says they’ll always be the Washington Redskins. You can’t hide 80 years of history of them being called that.

@parstl3739

2 жыл бұрын

His mama called him Clay, I'm gonna call him Clay...Clay Clay Clay.😂

@areguapiri

2 ай бұрын

80 years of a racist name.

I have a hard time believing that Ed 'Too Tall' Jones really thought that he had the makings of a Professional Heavyweight Boxing Champion - the guy is herky-jerky and looks uncoordinated, even when just hitting the trainer's hand pads. BUT he was a phenomenal Football player.

@tima5033

2 жыл бұрын

He looked exhausted in that clip of him boxing to me. Either way one clean hit from too tall could do some serious damage with his sheer size

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