Getty Regina Jackson, mom of Jayden Daniels . For just the fourth time since the NFL draft began in 1967, the top three picks in 2024 were all quarterbacks. The clean sweep happened in 1971, 1999 and then again in 2021. In 1971, all three quarterbacks — Jim Plunkett, Archie Manning and Dan Pastorini — all went on to successful NFL careers. The same couldn’t be said for 1999 and 2024 when, in each instance, only one of the quarterbacks selected in the top three was not a bust — Donovan McNabb in