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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]
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.
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.
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The two new expansion teams, the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars, alternated picks from lists of unprotected players from existing franchises. 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.
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 ...
On March 15, the Jaguars traded Calais Campbell to the Baltimore Ravens for a 5th round pick in the 2020 NFL draft. [93] Three days later on March 18, the Jaguars traded Nick Foles to the Chicago Bears in exchange for a 4th round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft. [94] On April 20, the Jaguars released Marqise Lee making him a free agent. [95]
Last summer we saw the SEC throw the first punch in college football expansion when they brought the Oklahoma Sooners and Texas Longhorns into the fold. That move won’t become official until ...