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The NFL draft, officially known as the "NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting", [1] [2] [3] is an annual event which serves as the league's most common source of player recruitment. [4] The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings; the teams with the worst win–loss records receive the earliest picks.
As part of the merger agreement on June 8, 1966, the two leagues held a multiple round "common draft". Once the AFL officially merged with the NFL in 1970, the "common draft" simply became the NFL draft. [11] [12] [13] The draft is one of the most notable events in American sports, with live broadcasts of it produced by ESPN, Fox and ABC. [14]
The 1960 NFL draft marked a turning point in the draft's history because of the pending arrival of the American Football League (AFL), as it became a "high-stakes, competitive affair." [56] In 1976, former NFL wide receiver Paul Salata first coined the moniker "Mr. Irrelevant" to refer to the last overall player selected in the draft. [57]
The NFL draft has been a staple of professional football for nearly all of the league's history and the 89th edition of the event will occur in downtown Detroit on April 25-27.. The annual event ...
The 2024 NFL draft was the 89th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players. The draft was held at Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza in Detroit on April 25–27, 2024. [1] The draft had an attendance of over 775,000, breaking the overall record previously set in 2019. [2]
Round Pick Overall Player Team Position 1938 8 9 69 Bill Hartman: Washington Redskins: B 11 7 97 Pete Tinsley: Green Bay Packers: G 1939 7 8 58 Quinton Lumpkin: Washington Redskins: C 14 9 129 Bill Badgett: Green Bay Packers: T 1940 8 7 67 Jim Fordham: Chicago Bears: B 1942 14 2 122 Tom Greene: Cleveland Rams: T 1943 1 1 1 Frank Sinkwich ...
The draft also marked the third time the first three picks were quarterbacks, following the 1971 and 1999 drafts. A total of eight quarterbacks were selected in the first three rounds, the most in NFL draft history, although only two quarterbacks were taken in the remaining rounds. By 2024, Lawrence was the only first-round quarterback to ...
In the 2015 draft, the defending national champion Buckeyes had no players selected in the first round (no eligible underclassmen declared [4]), the first time a championship team had gone without first round picks since the 2003 draft when the 2002 National Champion Buckeyes did the same. 2004 saw the most Buckeyes selected in a single NFL ...