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The 2008 NFL draft was the 73rd annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible American football players. The draft took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City , New York , on April 26 and April 27, 2008.
1942 first overall pick Bill Dudley was the first named NFL MVP and inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame 1945 first overall pick Charley Trippi retired as the leader in NFL offensive yards 1949 first overall pick Chuck Bednarik was one of the last NFL players to play offense and defense 1957 first overall pick Paul Hornung was the first Heisman Trophy winner inducted to the Pro Football ...
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.
The LSU Tigers football team has had 326 players drafted into the National Football League (NFL) since the league began holding drafts in 1936. [1] This includes 42 players taken in the first round and three overall number one picks: Billy Cannon (1960 NFL draft), Jamarcus Russell (2007 NFL draft) and Joe Burrow (2020 NFL draft).
In the 2010 NFL draft, Oklahoma became the only school in history to have three players selected in the first four picks of the draft. [5] Each NFL franchise seeks to add new players through the annual NFL draft. The team with the worst record the previous year picks first, the next-worst team second, and so on.
Quintorris Lopez "Julio" Jones Jr. (/ ˈ h uː l i oʊ / HOO-lee-oh; born February 8, 1989) [1] is an American professional football wide receiver.He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide where he won a national championship in 2009, and was selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the first round (sixth overall) of the 2011 NFL draft.
What Chicago does at No. 9 overall and with its remaining picks, though, will be intriguing. Detroit Lions The Lions are so close to their first Super Bowl appearance.
Off-the-field issues marred three of the Lions' 2008 draft picks. First-round draft pick Gosder Cherilus was involved in a bar fight in Boston the previous July, and was sentenced to one year of probation, though he would go on to assume the starting offensive tackle role in Week 3 of the 2008 season, providing some youth to an aging offensive ...