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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 ]
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Each of the 30 existing teams were required to expose five players to the draft. Cleveland was allowed to select between 30 and 42 players. No more than two players could be drafted from a single team; after drafting one player from a team, that team had the option to remove up to two of the remaining four players from the draft pool.
The 1976 National Football League (NFL) expansion draft was held March 30–31, 1976. The expansion teams, the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, each selected 39 players from the other 26 NFL teams. Before the draft, each of the existing NFL teams was allowed to protect 29 players from selection by the expansion teams.
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. Each time one of the expansion franchises selected a player from an existing team, that team was then permitted to remove a remaining player from its list of available players.
The NFL's title games offer blueprints in how to build a contender. ... Purdy was a seventh-round pick who has become one of the better draft success stories in recent seasons but who mostly is a ...
Starting in 1960, the NFL held an expansion draft for new franchises. 1921: Green Bay Packers, previously an independent, joined the league. 1925: New York Giants — replaced another team of the same name that left the league after one season in 1921; 1930: Portsmouth Spartans (now Detroit Lions), previously of the Ohio League, joined the NFL.
The NFL added two extra teams to the postseason beginning in the 2021 playoffs. Here's a history of the No. 7 seeds' performance in each conference.