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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.
In 1979, several months after the founding of ESPN, then ESPN President Chet Simmons asked the NFL if ESPN could air the NFL Draft. NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle, despite questions about viewership potential, granted ESPN the rights. [2] The first draft ESPN aired was in 1980. Bob Ley hosted the initial coverage from Bristol, Connecticut.
The current logo for the NFL draft. 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 ...
The NFL stuck with hosting the draft in hotels for most of the draft's history, moving from Philadelphia to New York in 1937 at the Hotel Lincoln, now known as the Row NYC hotel.
The New York Jets have the league's longest Texas draft drought: 44 years. When it comes to drafting Longhorns, Carolina's 28-year drought was the second longest among NFL franchises.
Football Sunday on ESPN Radio is a weekly radio program dedicated to the National Football League (NFL), aired every Sunday on ESPN and ESPN Radio. Jonathan Coachman is the show's host and the analysts are former defensive back Eric Allen , former NFL quarterback Tim Hasselbeck , and former wide receiver Tom Waddle .
The NFL draft has a new attendance record after more than 700,000 fans flooded downtown Detroit for the three-day event. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer broke the news at Campus Martius Park during ...
The 2025 season will be the New York Jets' 56th in the National Football League (NFL), their 66th overall and their first under general manager Darren Mougey and head coach Aaron Glenn. The team hopes to improve upon their 5–12 record from the previous season , return to the playoffs for the first time since 2010 , and end the longest active ...