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The 2002 National Football League expansion draft is the most recent National Football League (NFL) draft in which a new expansion team, named the Houston Texans, selected its first players. On October 6, 1999, in Atlanta , NFL owners had unanimously voted to award the 32nd NFL franchise and Super Bowl XXXVIII to the city of Houston, Texas . [ 1 ]
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 a result, the league dropped from 22 to 12 teams, and a majority of the remaining teams were centered around the East Coast instead of the Midwest, where the NFL had started. The New York Yankees were added from the American Football League (AFL I) and the Cleveland Bulldogs returned.
Apparently, Cleveland did not draft much of either. Only three of the 37 players the Browns took are still with the team and they all play on special teams." The team had the opportunity to draft quarterback Kurt Warner, that 1999 season's eventual NFL MVP and Super Bowl champion, but declined to do so. However, prior to the 1999 season Warner ...
Hence the Baltimore Ravens are considered by the NFL to be an expansion team that began play in the 1996 season. 1999: The Cleveland Browns are revived, hold an expansion draft, and receive possession of the history and records of the Browns prior to 1996. The Browns are considered by the NFL to be a revival of the previous Cleveland Browns ...
The two new expansion teams, the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars, alternated picks from lists of unprotected players from existing franchises. Existing NFL teams made six players available, [ 2 ] and the new teams were required to pick a minimum of 30 and a maximum of 42 players.
The second day of the 2024 NFL Draft has concluded, and the Chicago Bears brought in offensive lineman Kiran Amegadjie to pair with an elite duo of quarterback Caleb Williams and receiver Rome Odunze.
The last three expansion drafts took place between 1995 and 2002. In 1995, two new teams, the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars were allowed to pick between 30 and 42 players each from existing teams' rosters. 1999 NFL expansion draft was held for the Cleveland Browns, the 31st team in the league.