# List of Las Vegas Raiders first-round draft picks

The Las Vegas Raiders are a professional American football team based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Raiders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the league's American Football Conference West Division. Founded on January 30, 1960, as the Oakland Raiders, they were a charter member of the American Football League (AFL) and joined the NFL in 1970 following the AFL–NFL merger. The team departed Oakland to play in Los Angeles from the 1982 season through the 1994 season, becoming the Los Angeles Raiders, before returning to Oakland and switching back to being the Oakland Raiders at the start of the 1995 season. Prior to the start of the 2020 season, the Raiders moved to Las Vegas and changed their name to the Las Vegas Raiders. The team began utilizing Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada, for home games the same year.
The NFL draft, officially known as the "NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting", is an annual event which serves as the league's most common source of player recruitment. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings; the teams with the worst win–loss records receive the earliest picks. Teams that qualified for the NFL playoffs select after non-qualifiers, and their order depends on how far they advanced, using their regular season record as a tie-breaker. The final two selections in the first round are reserved for the Super Bowl runner-up and champion. Draft picks are tradable and players or other picks can be acquired with them.
Before the merger agreements in 1966, the AFL directly competed with the NFL and held a separate draft. This led to a bidding war over top prospects between the two leagues, along with the subsequent drafting of the same player in each draft. As part of the merger agreement on June 8, 1966, the two leagues began holding a multiple round "common draft". Once the AFL officially merged with the NFL in 1970, the "common draft" simply became the NFL draft. The first AFL draft was held prior to the start of the 1960 season. The first round of the 1960 AFL draft was territorial selections. Each team received a "territorial pick" which allowed them to select a single player within a pre-agreed upon designated region (the team's "territory"). Teams then agreed on the top eight players at each position, who were subsequently assigned to teams by random draw, with each of the eight teams receiving one of those players. This process was repeated until all 53 roster spots were filled. Beginning in the 1961 draft, the AFL, using the same system as the NFL, began to assign picks based on the previous season's standings.
Since the team's first draft, the Raiders have selected 64 players in the first round. The team's first-round pick in the inaugural AFL draft was Dale Hackbart, a defensive back from Wisconsin; he was the team's territorial selection. The Raiders have drafted first overall once, selecting JaMarcus Russell in the 2007 NFL draft. In the most recent draft, held in 2024, the Raiders selected Georgia tight end Brock Bowers.
The Raiders did not draft a player in the first round on eleven occasions. Five of the team's first-round picks—Marcus Allen, Tim Brown, Ray Guy, Gene Upshaw, and Charles Woodson—have been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Raiders used four first-round picks in the 1960s to select players—Roman Gabriel, Dale Hackbart, Tony Lorick, and Joe Rutgens—who chose to sign with the NFL instead.

## Player selections

Key :
| Symbol | Meaning |
| † | Inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame |
| * | Selected number one overall |
Position abbreviations :
| C | Center |
| CB | Cornerback |
| DB | Defensive back |
| DE | Defensive end |
| DT | Defensive tackle |
| G | Guard |
| K | Placekicker |
| LB | Linebacker |
| P | Punter |
| QB | Quarterback |
| RB | Running back |
| S | Safety |
| T | Tackle |
| TE | Tight end |
| WR | Wide receiver |
Las Vegas Raiders first-round draft picks :
| Season | Pick | Player | Position | College | Notes |
| 1960 | Territorial | Dale Hackbart | QB | Wisconsin | First round was territorial selections. Signed for the NFL's Green Bay Packers instead. |
| 1961 | 4 | Joe Rutgens | DT | Illinois | Signed for the NFL's Washington Redskins instead |
| 1962 | 2 | Roman Gabriel | QB | NC State | Signed for the NFL's Los Angeles Rams instead |
| 1963 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Pick traded to Dallas Texans |
| 1964 | 7 | Tony Lorick | RB | Arizona State | Signed for the NFL's Baltimore Colts instead |
| 1965 | 3 | Harry Schuh | T | Memphis | |
| 1966 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Did not make any selections until the seventh round |
| 1967 | 17 | Gene Upshaw† | G | Texas A&M-Kingsville | |
| 1968 | 25 | Eldridge Dickey | WR | Tennessee State | |
| 1969 | 22 | Art Thoms | DT | Syracuse | |
| 1970 | 24 | Raymond Chester | TE | Morgan State | |
| 1971 | 19 | Jack Tatum | DB | Ohio State | |
| 1972 | 21 | Mike Siani | WR | Villanova | |
| 1973 | 23 | Ray Guy† | P | Southern Mississippi | |
| 1974 | 19 | Henry Lawrence | T | Florida A&M | |
| 1975 | 24 | Neal Colzie | DB | Ohio State | |
| 1976 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Pick traded to Green Bay Packers |
| 1977 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Pick traded to Green Bay Packers |
| 1978 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Pick traded to Green Bay Packers |
| 1979 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Pick traded to Los Angeles Rams |
| 1980 | 15 | Marc Wilson | QB | BYU | |
| 1981 | 21 | Ted Watts | DB | Texas Tech | Pick received from Houston Oilers |
| 1981 | 23 | Curt Marsh | G | Washington | Moved up draft order in trade with Buffalo Bills |
| 1982 | 10 | Marcus Allen† | RB | USC | |
| 1983 | 26 | Don Mosebar | C | USC | |
| 1984 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Pick traded to New England Patriots |
| 1985 | 23 | Jessie Hester | WR | Florida State | |
| 1986 | 24 | Bob Buczkowski | DE | Pittsburgh | |
| 1987 | 15 | John Clay | T | Missouri | |
| 1988 | 6 | Tim Brown† | WR | Notre Dame | |
| 1988 | 9 | Terry McDaniel | DB | Tennessee | Pick received from Houston Oilers |
| 1988 | 25 | Scott Davis | DE | Illinois | Moved up draft order in trade with San Francisco 49ers |
| 1989 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Pick traded to Chicago Bears |
| 1990 | 11 | Anthony Smith | DE | Arizona | |
| 1991 | 24 | Todd Marinovich | QB | USC | |
| 1992 | 16 | Chester McGlockton | DT | Clemson | |
| 1993 | 12 | Patrick Bates | DB | Texas A&M | |
| 1994 | 22 | Rob Fredrickson | LB | Michigan State | |
| 1995 | 18 | Napoleon Kaufman | RB | Washington | |
| 1996 | 9 | Rickey Dudley | TE | Ohio State | Moved down draft order in trade with Houston Oilers |
| 1997 | 2 | Darrell Russell | DT | USC | Moved up draft order in trade with New Orleans Saints |
| 1998 | 4 | Charles Woodson† | DB | Michigan | |
| 1998 | 23 | Mo Collins | G | Florida | Moved up draft order in trade with Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1999 | 18 | Matt Stinchcomb | G | Georgia | |
| 2000 | 17 | Sebastian Janikowski | K | Florida State | |
| 2001 | 28 | Derrick Gibson | DB | Florida State | |
| 2002 | 17 | Phillip Buchanon | DB | Miami | Pick received from Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Moved up draft order in trades with Washington Redskins and Atlanta Falcons. |
| 2002 | 23 | Napoleon Harris | LB | Northwestern | |
| 2003 | 31 | Nnamdi Asomugha | DB | California | |
| 2003 | 32 | Tyler Brayton | DE | Colorado | Pick received from Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 2004 | 2 | Robert Gallery | T | Iowa | |
| 2005 | 23 | Fabian Washington | DB | Nebraska | Original pick traded to Minnesota Vikings. Pick received from New York Jets. Moved up draft order in trade with Seattle Seahawks. |
| 2006 | 7 | Michael Huff | DB | Texas | |
| 2007 | 1 | JaMarcus Russell* | QB | LSU | |
| 2008 | 4 | Darren McFadden | RB | Arkansas | |
| 2009 | 7 | Darrius Heyward-Bey | WR | Maryland | |
| 2010 | 8 | Rolando McClain | LB | Alabama | |
| 2011 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Pick traded to New England Patriots |
| 2012 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Pick traded to Cincinnati Bengals |
| 2013 | 12 | D. J. Hayden | DB | Houston | Moved down draft order in trade with Miami Dolphins |
| 2014 | 5 | Khalil Mack | LB | Buffalo | |
| 2015 | 4 | Amari Cooper | WR | Alabama | |
| 2016 | 14 | Karl Joseph | S | West Virginia | |
| 2017 | 24 | Gareon Conley | CB | Ohio State | |
| 2018 | 15 | Kolton Miller | T | UCLA | Moved down draft order in trade with Arizona Cardinals |
| 2019 | 4 | Clelin Ferrell | DE | Clemson | |
| 2019 | 24 | Josh Jacobs | RB | Alabama | Pick received from Chicago Bears |
| 2019 | 27 | Johnathan Abram | S | Mississippi State | Pick received from Dallas Cowboys |
| 2020 | 12 | Henry Ruggs | WR | Alabama | |
| 2020 | 19 | Damon Arnette | CB | Ohio State | Pick received from Chicago Bears |
| 2021 | 17 | Alex Leatherwood | T | Alabama | |
| 2022 | No pick | No pick | No pick | No pick | Pick traded to Green Bay Packers |
| 2023 | 7 | Tyree Wilson | DE | Texas Tech | |
| 2024 | 13 | Brock Bowers | TE | Georgia | |