1971 NFL Draft Round 1
| YEAR | RND | PICK # | TEAM | PLAYER | POS | COLLEGE |
| 1971 | 1 | 1 | NWE | Jim Plunkett | QB | Stanford |
| 1971 | 1 | 2 | NOR | Archie Manning | QB | Mississippi |
| 1971 | 1 | 3 | TEN | Dan Pastorini | QB | Santa Clara |
| 1971 | 1 | 4 | BUF | J.D. Hill | WR | Arizona St. |
| 1971 | 1 | 5 | PHI | Richard Harris | DE | Grambling St. |
| 1971 | 1 | 6 | NYJ | John Riggins | RB | Kansas |
| 1971 | 1 | 7 | ATL | Joe Profit | RB | La-Monroe |
| 1971 | 1 | 8 | PIT | Frank Lewis | WR | Grambling St. |
| 1971 | 1 | 9 | GNB | John Brockington | RB | Ohio St. |
| 1971 | 1 | 10 | RAM | Isiah Robertson | LB | Southern |
| 1971 | 1 | 11 | CHI | Joe Moore | RB | Missouri |
| 1971 | 1 | 12 | DEN | Marv Montgomery | T | USC |
| 1971 | 1 | 13 | LAC | Leon Burns | RB | Long Beach St. |
| 1971 | 1 | 14 | CLE | Clarence Scott | DB | Kansas St. |
| 1971 | 1 | 15 | CIN | Vern Holland | T | Tennessee St. |
| 1971 | 1 | 16 | KAN | Elmo Wright | WR | Houston |
| 1971 | 1 | 17 | ARI | Norm Thompson | DB | Utah |
| 1971 | 1 | 18 | NYG | Rocky Thompson | RB | West Texas A&M |
| 1971 | 1 | 19 | LAS | Jack Tatum | DB | Ohio St. |
| 1971 | 1 | 20 | RAM | Jack Youngblood | DE | Florida |
| 1971 | 1 | 21 | DET | Bob Bell | DT | Cincinnati |
| 1971 | 1 | 22 | IND | Don McCauley | RB | North Carolina |
| 1971 | 1 | 23 | SFO | William Anderson | DB | Ohio St. |
| 1971 | 1 | 24 | MIN | Leo Hayden | RB | Ohio St. |
| 1971 | 1 | 25 | DAL | Tody Smith | DE | USC |
| 1971 | 1 | 26 | IND | Lenny Dunlap | DB | North Texas |
