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The 2009 NFL draft was the 74th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible football players. The draft took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York , on April 25 and 26, 2009 .
The NFL draft, officially known as the Annual Player Selection Meeting, [1] [2] is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment in the National Football League. Each team is given a position in the drafting order in reverse order relative to its record in the previous year, which means that the last place team is ...
[1] [4] A Connecticut football alumnus had been selected in every NFL draft from 2007 to 2015 and in fourteen of the last eighteen NFL drafts. Each NFL franchise seeks to add new players through the annual NFL draft. The draft rules were last updated in 2009. The team with the worst record the previous year picks first, the next-worst team ...
Considered a four-star recruit by Rivals.com, McFarland was listed as the No. 6 defensive tackle prospect in the nation, [2] as well as the third-best run stuffer among defensive tackles. [3] He was ranked third among the nation defensive tackles in the nation by Scout.com , who graded him as a five-star recruit.
The 2009 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise's 77th season in the National Football League (NFL). They were coming off a season in which they compiled a 12–4 regular season record and capped the season by winning the franchise's record sixth Super Bowl. The team's coaching staff remained the same for the third consecutive year. [1]
The NFL draft has become one of the key events on the American football calendar, airing live on television each April. In recent years it had been held at New York's Radio City Music Hall, but in 2015 and 2016 it was held at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre, [6] and in 2017 it was held on the Rocky Steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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The Chiefs were later awarded the 256th and final selection in the 2009 NFL draft, making them effectively choose "Mr. Irrelevant." [ 84 ] The player chosen was K Ryan Succop , who was the Chiefs' first "Mr. Irrelevant" since the 1970 NFL draft when DB Rayford Jenkins was chosen by the team from Alcorn A&M .