The Packers have competed in the National Football League (NFL) since 1921, two years after their original founding by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun.
[1] They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) and play their home games at Lambeau Field in central Wisconsin.
[5] However, starting in 1960, the newly-formed American Football League (AFL) began a competing draft of the same group of collegiate players.
[17] The Packers won the last of these lotteries in the 1957 NFL draft, using their bonus pick to select future Pro Football Hall of Famer Paul Hornung.
[18] Including Hornung, the Packers have selected 13 players who ended up in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
[4] Under the oversight of scout Jack Vainisi, 10 of these players were selected over a 7-year period from 1952 to 1958, culminating in the 1958 NFL draft where the Packers selected future All-Pro Dan Currie and future Pro Football Hall of Famers Jim Taylor, Ray Nitschke and Jerry Kramer successively in the first four rounds.
[22][23] On three separate occasions, Packers draft picks have won the Associated Press NFL Rookie of the Year Award: John Brockington (1971), Willie Buchanon (1972) and Eddie Lacy (2013).