"number one pick" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when emphasizing that someone or something has been chosen first out of a group of choices. For example: "The team's number one pick in the draft was an exciting defensive player."
A regular number one pick on lists of the most expensive cities in the world, Singapore rarely offers travelers easy savings between its banking highrises, chic fashion stores and enthralling multi-ethnic districts.
As of a few days ago, Wall could say something that he hasn't been able to say since Washington drafted him with the number one pick back in 2010: He's on a team that is above.500.500
That said, New York also traded for the number one pick at the Superdraft, Jack Harrison, and with Federico Bravo also on loan from Boca Juniors, their midfield options alongside Frank Lampard and Pirlo are still not quite clear.
Updated at 5.11pm GMT 5.05pm GMT Almost ready... Number one pick will be announced shortly.
Despite mixed reviews, the film beat Dawn of the Planet of the Apes as the number one pick among Egypt's cinema-goers.
The book they've co-authored – TV (The Book), which is out this week – is sure to inspire debate, especially their number one pick: The Simpsons.
The actual number-one pick, Alex Smith, another quarterback, got a $49.5 million deal, $41.8 million higher.
He declared that the Carolina Panthers had, as predicted, used their number-one pick to select Newton.
The Houston Oilers, in last place in the AFL East, had the number-one pick for the AFL.
As you no doubt know, he was the second consecutive first overall pick by the Nationals, and was the second most-followed prospect of all time, first being the National's first number-one pick Stephen Strasburg.
Both the Oilers and Jets realized that the Jets had a far better chance of signing Namath in competition with the NFL team which drafted him (as it turned out, the St . LouisCardinals, formerly the Chicago Cardinals), and the Jets were able to acquire the number-one pick.
