The Colts' first ever draft pick was a halfback who won the Heisman Trophy in what year?
Billy Vessels Billy Dale Vessels (March 22, 1931 – November 17, 2001) was a gridiron football player. He played college football at the University of Oklahoma and won the Heisman Trophy in 1952. Vessels went on to play professional football with the National Football League's Baltimore Colts and the Western Interprovincial Football Union's Edmonton Eskimos.
Haskel Stanback Haskel LaVon Stanback (born March 19, 1952) is a former professional American football player who played running back for seven seasons for the Atlanta Falcons. He originally was selected in the fifth round of the 1974 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals after attending the University of Tennessee. After his football career ended, he became associated with Norfolk Southern Corporation as a management supervisor and is currently Superintendent of the company's Virginia Division in Roanoke, Virginia.