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List of first overall picks. 1942 first overall pick Bill Dudley was the first named NFL MVP and inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 1945 first overall pick Charley Trippi retired as the leader in NFL offensive yards. 1949 first overall pick Chuck Bednarik was one of the last NFL players to play offense and defense.
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.
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.
The Kansas City Chiefs traded up to draft Texas WR Xavier Worthy, who ran a record-breaking 4.21-second 40-yard dash at the NFL scouting combine. (Photo by Nick Tre. Smith/Icon Sportswire via ...
Get complete coverage of the trades, picks and reactions to the 89th annual NFL Draft taking place in Detroit, Michigan , on April 25-27, 2024.
The draft also marked the third time the first three picks were quarterbacks, following the 1971 and 1999 drafts. A total of eight quarterbacks were selected in the first three rounds, the most in NFL draft history although, only two quarterbacks were taken in the remaining rounds.
The 2022 NFL draft was the 87th edition of the National Football League 's annual draft and was held from April 28–30, 2022, at the Caesars Forum on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise next to Las Vegas. The first round was held on Thursday, April 28, and was followed by the second and third rounds on Friday, April 29.
NFL draft picks: Round 4 3rd 5 picks, No. 111-115 No. 111, Green Bay Packers (from New York Jets): Evan Williams, S, Oregon No. 112, Las Vegas Raiders: Decamerion Richardson, CB, Mississippi State