Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
From 1947 through 1958, the first selection in the NFL Draft was awarded by a random draw known as the "bonus pick." The team that received the bonus pick forfeited its selection in the final round of the draft, and once a team won, it was excluded from future draws.
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.
Bledsoe was the first overall selection in the 1993 NFL draft, taken by the New England Patriots. [11] He started right away for the Patriots in 1993, as they improved from two to five wins. [12] [13] As a rookie, he passed for 2,494 yards, 15 touchdowns, and 15 interceptions in 13 games. [14]
Arizona Cardinals (from Detroit via L.A. Rams) — Paris Johnson Jr., OT; 6 feet, 6 inches; 313 pounds, Ohio State Scouting report: Ideal size and athleticism, with some work to be done on ...
Behold, not only were four quarterbacks drafted in the top eight picks for the first time in NFL history (since the modern draft began in 1967), but also five were taken in the top 10 and six ...
This draft is the eighth in the past nine years with at least three QBs taken in the first round, which matches the number of times that happened in the first 38 years of the common draft era. AP ...
The Seattle Seahawks won the right to draft first in the supplemental draft, and later signed him to a 10-year, $11 million contract. [135] At the time that was the largest rookie contract in NFL history. As of the 1990 season, only players who had graduated or exhausted their college eligibility were made available for the supplemental draft.
Eleven years after the first NFL draft, the NBA held its first draft in 1947. The NHL and MLB took nearly 20 more years to adopt a draft process, with hockey beginning in 1963 and baseball in 1965.