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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]
In 1936, the league introduced the NFL draft after team owners voted on it in 1935. [6] [7] The intention of the draft is to make the NFL more competitive, as some teams had an advantage in signing players. [5] [7] From 1947 through 1958 the NFL designated the first overall selection as a "bonus" or "lottery pick". The pick was awarded by a ...
The last example of this was quarterback Matthew Stafford and the Detroit Lions in the 2009 NFL draft: the Lions picked Stafford with the first overall selection in the draft, and had agreed to a six-year, $78 million deal ($41.7 million guaranteed) with Stafford a day before the draft officially started.
The 2024 NFL Draft will be held in Detroit across three days in the downtown area surrounding the Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza. The first round began at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday.
Quarterbacks could easily dominate the list of rookies to watch in 2024 because six went among the top 12 picks in the draft. But there are a couple of worthy receivers in Arizona's Marvin ...
The 2022 Heisman Trophy winner kicked off an historic NFL draft Thursday night that had five other teams selecting quarterbacks among the top 12 picks, setting a record with five in the top 10 and ...
Joseph Jay Milton III [1] (born March 6, 2000) is an American professional football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines and Tennessee Volunteers. Milton was selected by the Patriots in the sixth round of the 2024 NFL draft.
COLUMBIA — After six quarterbacks were selected first round of the 2024 NFL draft on Thursday not a single quarterback was taken in the second and third rounds on Friday, delaying South Carolina ...