No running back has gone first overall since Ki-Jana Carter in 1995. Teams have been waiting later and later to take running backs with Jonathan Brooks the first to go last year at No. 46 to Carolina.

The building had gone into the night wanting Alabama running back Mark Ingram, the 2009 Heisman Trophy winner. Wanting him bad. They figured, sitting at pick No. 24, that they’d never get him ...

(Kyle Green / AP) The days of running backs being the headliners at the NFL draft are long in the past with the league’s shift to more passing leading to quarterbacks, pass rushers and pass ...