Troy Davis, second in Heisman Trophy voting, was taken in the third round by New Orleans but the player who won the trophy, Florida quarterback Danny Wuerffel, was still available when NFL teams ended the first of two sessions after the third round Saturday night.
Several big campus heroes had to wait until the second round to hear their names called.
That was not the case for Orlando Pace.
Pace - the biggest name and one of the biggest in size at 6-foot-7, 340 pounds - was taken No. 1 by the St. Louis Rams, as expected. He is the first offensive lineman taken No. 1 in 29 years - since Minnesota went for Ron Yary with the top pick in 1968.
The Seattle Seahawks seemed to reap the most from this draft, trading up to get two of the top six picks - cornerback Shawn Springs, Pace's Ohio State teammate, and offensive tackle Walter Jones of Florida State.
San Francisco, shopping for a young quarterback for the first time after nearly two decades of Joe Montana and Steve Young, took Virginia Tech's Jim Druckenmiller with the 26th pick of the first round.
But Jake Plummer, the Arizona State quarterback who took the Sun Devils to within a game of the national championship, didn't go until 42nd overall. He gets to stay home, however, a second-round pick of the Arizona Cardinals, who play in Sun Devil Stadium.