NFL Draft began Thursday, April 25, 2013, and ends Saturday, April 27, 2013.
What is NFL Draft?
NFL Draft is also says as "National Football League Draft". The National Football League Draft, which is officially called the NFL Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event in which the National Football League (NFL) teams select eligible college football players.
It serves as the most common league player recruitment source. The basic design of the project is that each team is given a position in the order of writing in reverse order compared to the record of the previous year, ie the last team spot is positioned first. In this position, the team can either select a player or exchange their position to another team for other projects positions, a player or players, or any combination thereof. After each team has used his position in the order in writing, either by negotiation or selection of a player, a tour would not be complete. Some aspects of the project, including the positioning of the team and the number of turns in the project have seen revisions since its first inception in 1936, but the basic methodology has remained the same. Currently, the project consists of seven towers. The original purpose in the creation of the project was to increase competitive parity between the teams as the worst team would ideally have chosen the best player available.
When this NFL Draft has began?
The first NFL draft began at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Philadelphia on February 8, 1936. Ninety names were written on a blackboard in the meeting room for which the teams would choose from. As no team had a scouting department, the list was created from either print media sources, visits to local colleges by team executives, or by recommendations to team executives. The draft would last for nine rounds, and it had no media coverage. The first player ever selected in the draft was Jay Berwanger. Bell, prior to the draft, was not successfully able to negotiate a contract with Berwanger so Bell traded him to the Bears. George Halas, owner of the Bears, was also unsuccessful in signing Berwanger. Berwanger's decision to not play in the NFL was not unusual, as only twenty-four of the eighty-one players selected chose to play in the NFL that year. The draft was recessed on the first day and it was continued and finished on the next day.
This draft saw the emergence of Wellington Mara as a savant, as he had been subscribing to magazines and local and out-of-town papers to build up dossiers of college players across the country, which resulted in the Giants' drafting of Tuffy Leemans. As a result of the institution of the draft, Tim Mara, owner of the Giants, reduced Ken Strong's salary offer to $3,200 from $6,000 a year for 1936 because Mara felt the draft would alter the salary structure of the NFL. Generally, the franchises' exclusivity in negotiating with draft picks produced the immediate effect of, depending on sources, stopping the escalating salaries of new players, or reducing their salaries. Consequently, contemporary critics charged it was anti-labor.
Scouting Era Begins (1946–1959)
How the NFL Draft works?
NFL teams develop their player rosters through three methods: free-agent signings, trading their players for players from other teams, and drafting college players who have declared themselves eligible for the NFL draft. The NFL draft is a two-day event in which all 32 teams take their turns selecting these players.
In this article, we'll take a closer look at the event that determines the future success of NFL teams by explaining the ground rules of the event, the selection process, and who is eligible to be drafted.
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