What if you could assemble a dozen players from any draft class in history, but with a few parameters: only one player from their respective round, and the goal of the draft would be to build a well-balanced nucleus that a start-up franchise could be built around.

Feel like you're day-dreaming?

Imagine the possibilities: Joe Montana in the third round … Terrell Davis in the sixth … Johnny Unitas in the ninth.

This article exposes some of the great bargains of all-time in their respective round, but it also serves as a fun exercise in draft management, as the participating experts found out.

The participants:

> Football.com staff
> Scott Wright, founder and president, DraftCountdown.com
> Matt Falkster, president, DraftSeason.com
> Ryan McCrystal, president and senior writer, DraftAce.com

Each expert was allowed to draft without the benefit of knowing who the other experts had selected. There were a lot of common selections among the experts, but in several rounds the experts were torn in different directions.

Here are the results, with a round-by-round breakdown for each pick below …