The 1988 SEC Player of the Year at Vanderbilt, Will Perdue, was Chicago 1^stRound Pick (11^thOverall), where the Center would become Bill Cartwright's backup for six years.

Keith Fahnhorst stood at 6’ 6” and tipped the scales at 275 pounds, so he brought a lot of size to the San Francisco 49ers who drafted him in the Second Round of the 1974 Draft.

Michael Carter had an incredible 1984.  Drafted by the San Francisco 49ers after his college career at SMU concluded, Carter competed and won the Silver Medal in the shotput at the 1984 Olympics, and he was a backup Nose Tackle on a Niners team that won Super Bowl XIX.  This made Carter the first man to win an Olympic Medal and a Super Bowl in the same year.

Taken Third Overall by the Bulls in the 1967 Draft, Clem Haskins arrived in Chicago as an All-American and three-time OVC Player of the Year.