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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.
Each NFL franchise seeks to add new players through the draft as it is the league's most common source of player recruitment. [5] Each team is assigned a position in the drafting order based on the reverse of its record from the previous year.
The Canadian college draft and American Football League draft are others. In the NFL draft, each team is given a position in the drafting order in reverse order relative to its record in the previous year, which means that the last place team is positioned first and the Super Bowl champion is last. From this position, the team can either select ...
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 ...
Wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald was drafted 3rd overall by the Cardinals in the 2004 NFL draft. Fitzgerald spent his entire career, 17 seasons, with the team and was a three-time All-Pro, 11-time Pro Bowler, and was the 2016 Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award. He is currently second all-time in career receiving yards and was selected for the NFL 100th Anniversary All-Time Team. The Arizona ...
This category is for players who were selected first overall in an NFL draft. Pages in category "First overall NFL draft picks" The following 91 pages are in this category, out of 91 total.
The Cowboys drafted quarterback Troy Aikman first overall in the 1989 NFL draft. Aikman spent his entire 12-year career with Dallas and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2006. The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team based in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. The Cowboys compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football ...
Selected number one overall † Indicates the player was selected for the Pro Bowl at any time in their career. — The Buccaneers did not draft a player in the first round that year. Year Each year links to an article about that particular NFL Draft. Pick Indicates the number of the pick within the first round Position