User:Marc87/List of Edmonton Eskimos draft picks

The Edmonton Eskimos are a professional Canadian football franchise based in Edmonton, Alberta. They play in the West Division in the Canadian Football League (CFL). They were founded in 1949 as a member of the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU) until 1958 when they CFL was founded.

The Canadian College Draft is held each May. The draft order is determined by the previous season's order of finish, with non-playoff teams drafting first, followed by the teams that made the playoffs, with the specific order determined by the number of points earned by each team.

Edmonton's first draft pick in the WIFU was Bobby Waugh, taken ninth overall in the 1956 CFL Draft. Their first pick in the CFL was John Tattle, taken ninth overall in the 1958 CFL Draft. The highest the Eskimos have picked is first overall. They selected Barry Mitchelson (1964), Ed Turek (1966), Tim Berryman (1976), Sean Millington (1990), Don Blair (1996), and Adam Braidwood (2006). Nine picks went on to play over 150 CFL games: Dave Cutler (4th, 1969), Bob Cameron (6th, 1977), Dan Kearns (18th, 1980), Ed Gataveckas (27th, 1980), Rod Connop (9th, 1982), Blaine Schmidt (17th, 1986), Pierre Vercheval (17th, 1987), Michael Soles (5th, 1989), Leroy Blugh (7th, 1989). Five of Edmonton's draft picks, Cutler, Cameron, Connop, Vercheval, and Blugh have been elected to the Canadian Football Hall of Fame.