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65-412: Each existing team is told it can "protect" a certain number of its existing contracted players by furnishing their names to the league office on or before a certain date. The expansion team(s) then are allowed to select players not on the protected lists in a manner somewhat similar to an entry draft . There are generally a maximum number of players that can be selected from any one team, at least without

130-459: A free agent and can sign with any team. They also require minimum and sometimes maximum salaries for newly drafted players. Leagues may also allow teams to trade draft picks among each other in exchange for other draft picks or in exchange for players. In 1935, National Football League president Joseph Carr instituted the NFL draft as a way to restrain teams' payrolls and reduce the dominance of

195-523: A roster system based on where the club finished the previous year. It ran in reverse order with the wooden spooners getting first choice and the premiers last. The draft lasted just the one season before being defeated in the courts by players and coaches opposed to its limitations. Like the IPL the SA20 also has an auction where teams bid on players and subject a salary cap and restrictions on roster size. After

260-450: A team receives as a result of free agency (up to 32 compensatory selections are given each year), and any picks awarded for developing minority candidates for NFL head coaching or general manager positions (starting with the 2021 draft in accordance with NFL Resolution JC-2A). Teams are allowed to trade draft picks (including compensation picks since 2017) among each other in exchange for other draft picks or in exchange for players. Because

325-416: A team via a disaster draft , should an accident or other disaster kill or disable many players. Drafts are usually permitted under antitrust or restraint of trade laws because they are included in collective bargaining agreements between leagues and labor unions representing players. These agreements generally stipulate that after a certain number of seasons, a player whose contract has expired becomes

390-488: A team wishes to remove them from the payroll. For this reason, expansion teams are often noncompetitive in their early years in a league, although the advent of the free agent system has modified this somewhat. Marc-André Fleury , who won three Stanley Cups with the Pittsburgh Penguins , is a notable exception of a star player in their prime being left exposed in an expansion draft, being made available for

455-401: A viable strategy to tank, as a second overall pick was still guaranteed. This was made evident in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft , where marquee prospects Connor McDavid and Jack Eichel were both seen as NHL-ready and likely to be stars; much speculation surrounded the struggling Buffalo Sabres , who allegedly tanked to secure the rights to at least the second overall pick (a charge that, although

520-523: Is a process used in some countries (especially in North America) and sports (especially in closed leagues ) to allocate certain players to teams. In a draft, teams take turns selecting from a pool of eligible players. When a team selects a player, the team receives exclusive rights to sign that player to a contract, and no other team in the league may sign the player. The process is similar to round-robin item allocation . The best-known type of draft

585-419: Is currently three rounds long with each of the 12 teams in the league (trades aside) making three picks each. Draft order for teams that made the playoffs the previous year are based on team records. The team with the highest previous record will pick last. Since eight teams qualify for playoffs , the bottom eight picks are determined by this method. For the remaining top four picks, a selection process similar to

650-412: Is divided into three rounds in which each club has one selection. In addition to drafted players, MLS teams also acquire new players from their youth academies . These players are called homegrown players. Homegrown player are academy players who is given a first-team contract. They are required to have spent at least one year in a club's academy, and to have lived in the club's territory (for example, in

715-406: Is responsible for holding drafts prior to the commencement of each season. Teams can buy foreign players with international experience while they still can purchase Indian players with little or no experience. The Pakistan Super League uses a draft system for player recruitment before the start of every season to fairly distribute the league's new players. Teams are allotted slots in every round of

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780-468: Is the entry draft, which is used to allocate players who have recently become eligible to play in a league. Depending on the sport, the players may come from college , high school or junior teams, or teams in other countries. An entry draft is intended to prevent expensive bidding wars for young talent and to ensure that no team can sign contracts with all of the best young players and make the league uncompetitive. To encourage parity , teams that do poorly in

845-636: The 1996 season . The Raiders' move was not announced until after the schedule had been announced, which resulted in a problem in the third week of the season when both the Raiders and the San Francisco 49ers had games scheduled to air on NBC which ended up overlapping each other. The Raiders game was rescheduled for 10:00 a.m. PDT in case they were to relocate and NBC was given the doubleheader so that both Bay Area teams had their games televised locally. The season ended with Super Bowl XXX , when

910-529: The 2024 season . The first was a draft of college players , followed by a supplemental draft . The final draft of 2013 was a preseason waiver draft in which teams could select players who had been waived by their first squads, but only one player was selected at that time. The league held a college draft, referred to after 2021 simply as the NWSL Draft after the inclusion of non-collegiate selections, prior to each league season. The waiver draft, now called

975-757: The Dallas Cowboys defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 27–17 at Sun Devil Stadium . They became the first team in NFL history to win three Super Bowls in four years. This season was Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula 's last season as coach. The 1995 NFL draft was held from April 22 to 23, 1995 at New York City 's Theater at Madison Square Garden . With the first pick, the Cincinnati Bengals selected running back Ki-Jana Carter from Penn State University . The 1995 NFL expansion draft

1040-611: The Jacksonville Jaguars were allowed to pick between 30 and 42 players each from existing teams' rosters. 1999 NFL expansion draft was held for the Cleveland Browns , the 31st team in the league. This one in particular was regarded as giving the new team too little, while letting existing teams to protect basically all players they wanted. Finally, as the Houston Texans joined the league in 2002 as

1105-553: The Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft after Fleury was made expendable due to the rise of Matt Murray at goaltender. The rules of the draft can be tweaked by the league to make the expansion team more competitive if that is the business objective of the league's expansion. Most teams seem to try largely to make a team which will serve until it can begin to develop its own talent, although occasionally players discarded by their old teams benefit from

1170-425: The "re-entry wire", has also become a permanent part of the league. The league also created other draft mechanisms to address other types of eligibility, such as the unsubsidized individual distribution ranking order introduced for college draft-ineligible NWSL federation players in 2016, and the under-18 entry list for domestic minors introduced in 2023. With league expansion and contraction since its establishment,

1235-553: The 32nd and, currently, the last team, 2002 NFL expansion draft was held for them. The rules of the draft had been adjusted following the reception of the 1999 one. Baseball expansion was initially hastened by the threat of a competing league, known as the Continental League . There have been 11 expansion drafts in National Basketball Association history. The most recent expansion draft

1300-670: The Grey Cup champion selecting last. As with the NFL Draft, trading of picks is very common, meaning that a team will not necessarily have eight picks in a given draft. The draft is restricted to Canadian citizens, plus non-citizens who were raised in Canada since childhood (see the relevant section of the main CFL article ). Eligible players can be drafted both from U Sports football programs in Canada and U.S. college football programs (with

1365-788: The KHL and its players introduced a draft, starting from the very first season of the league . It also allowed teams to use a first-round draft pick to select protected players from a team's farm system. The KHL Junior Draft was discontinued in 2016. A draft system is used for The Hundred , a professional franchise 100-ball cricket tournament in England and Wales run by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), which started in 2021. The inaugural Hundred draft took place in October 2019. The Canadian Football League holds its annual player draft before

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1430-554: The MLB draft takes place during the season instead of in the offseason. In December, MLB holds the much shorter Rule 5 draft . If an organization keeps a player in the minor leagues for a certain number of years, other teams can draft him in the Rule 5 draft. The drafting team must keep the player on its major league roster; it cannot put the player in its own minor leagues system. MLL implemented its first collegiate draft in 2001. The draft

1495-493: The NBA Draft Lottery is conducted for the four teams that did not qualify for the playoffs. The WWE Draft is used to refresh WWE 's Raw and SmackDown rosters, as well as shuffle talent between the two. Cricket 's Indian Premier League instead holds a yearly auction before the start of each season in which teams bid on players, subject to a salary cap and restrictions on roster size. Indian Super League

1560-526: The NBA, the NHL uses a lottery system to determine which team gets the top pick. All 16 teams, up from 15 between 2017 and 2021, that failed to qualify for the playoffs take part in the weighted lottery with the winner moving up to select first overall. Any North American player aged 18–20, and any overseas player aged 18–21 is eligible to be selected. Players are generally chosen from junior hockey teams, high schools,

1625-463: The NCAA and overseas clubs. The NHL rotates the draft's location among cities with teams in the league. Like baseball, players drafted in the entry draft usually have to wait a few years in development, either in junior hockey or the minor leagues, before cracking an NHL roster; usually, only one or two draft picks, generally, those that are widely predicted to be blue-chip superstars, jump directly from

1690-566: The NFL requires that players be three years removed from high school, and of the lack of an effective junior development system outside the college and university programs, players are chosen almost exclusively from National Collegiate Athletic Association college football programs. The NFL draft has become one of the key events on the American football calendar, airing live on television each April. In recent years it had been held at New York's Radio City Music Hall , but in 2015 and 2016 it

1755-646: The Panthers obtained cornerback Rod Smith from the New England Patriots. Mike Carey and Walt Coleman were promoted to referee; Carey became the second African-American referee in NFL history following Johnny Grier , who was promoted in 1988. Dale Hamer had to sit out the 1995 season to recover from open heart surgery, while league expansion from 28 to 30 teams required an additional officiating crew. A series of National Football League pre-season exhibition games that were held at sites outside

1820-473: The Sabres' fans openly encouraged it, the team officially denied). From the 2016 to 2020 drafts , the top three overall picks were subject to lottery among all fourteen teams that did not make the playoffs, meaning the last-place team will only be assured of the fourth overall pick, at which point virtually any marquee prospect will have already been selected. Since the 2021 draft , only two draws are held for

1885-416: The U.S. and Canada . Most professional football clubs and those in other sports obtain young players through transfers from smaller clubs or by developing youth players through their own academies. The youth system is operated directly by the teams themselves, who develop their players from childhood. Parity in these leagues is instead maintained through promotion and relegation , which automatically expels

1950-639: The United States. Two games were contested in 1995. The Pro Football Hall of Fame Game featured the NFL's newest expansions teams, as the Carolina Panthers defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars 20–14, was played on July 29, and held at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio , the same city where the league was founded . The 1995 Hall of Fame Class included Jim Finks, Henry Jordan, Steve Largent, Lee Roy Selmon and Kellen Winslow With

2015-511: The addition of Carolina and Jacksonville to give each division five teams, the "fifth place" schedule given to the last-place teams in the AFC East, AFC West, NFC East and NFC Central from 1978 to 1994 was eliminated.      Inter-conference AFC East vs NFC West AFC Central vs NFC Central AFC West vs NFC East Highlights of the 1995 season included: The following players set all-time records during

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2080-584: The bottom of the AFL ladder will get the first draft picks. Also, any team that finishes in a low ladder position for consecutive seasons will receive priority picks. The AFL's National Draft is held in November, with a pre-season draft and a rookie draft held in December. The 1991 NSWRL season featured the introduction of rugby league football's first draft system. The draft allowed teams to recruit players on

2145-407: The case of Orlando City , northern Florida). The draft gives to the teams opportunity to acquire players from other regions of the country, from outside their territory. The teams can also acquire new players by signing players from other leagues (usually foreigner leagues). MLS has two transfer windows —the primary pre-season transfer window lasts three months from mid February until mid May, and

2210-418: The change in environment and become stars, either again or for the first time. A similar process occurs when an existing franchise is disbanded and the players contracted to it become available to the remaining teams; this process is referred to as a dispersal draft . During its history , the NFL has held eight expansion drafts in order to accommodate newcoming teams. Half of them took place in 1960s, when

2275-615: The draft and slots can be exchanged with other teams. 1995 NFL season The 1995 NFL season was the 76th regular season of the National Football League (NFL). The league expanded to 30 teams with the addition of the Carolina Panthers and the Jacksonville Jaguars . The two expansion teams were slotted into the two remaining divisions that previously had only four teams (while

2340-574: The draft lasts 20 rounds (down from 40 in 2019 with the exception of a 5-round 2020 draft), but earlier drafts have lasted up to 100 rounds. The MLB Draft generally receives less attention than the drafts in other American sports, since drafted players usually spend several years in the minor leagues before they crack the Major League team's roster. Also, unlike the MLS, NFL, NBA and the NHL Drafts,

2405-405: The draft lottery is rigged. NBA teams choose players from the NCAA and from teams overseas. It was formerly common for players to be chosen directly from high school, but in 2006, the NBA required that players wait a year after high school before playing in the NBA. Almost all top U.S. players thus play at least one year in college. The NHL operates a seven-round off-season draft (224 picks). Like

2470-480: The draft to the NHL (e.g. Sidney Crosby or Jaromír Jágr ). The league has incrementally expanded the draft lottery process over the course of the early 2010s to discourage "tanking"—the act of deliberately losing to get a better draft pick. Historically, the league only subjected the first overall pick to the draft lottery among the five worst teams in the league, meaning that if a draft had more than one marquee prospect (a generally rare occurrence), it would still be

2535-518: The first two selections. Starting with the 2022 lottery , the team winning one of the two lotteries is only allowed to move up a maximum of ten spots in the draft order and teams will only be allowed to win the lottery twice in a five-year period. The three major junior leagues that make up the Canadian Hockey League also hold drafts of teenage players in their territories. Major League Baseball holds two drafts each year. In June,

2600-418: The first-year player draft, MLB's entry draft, takes place. Only players from Canada, the U.S. or a U.S. territory may be drafted; players from elsewhere are free agents and can be signed by any team. Draftees are high-school graduates who have opted not to go to college; college baseball players at four-year institutions who have played three years or turned 21; or junior college baseball players. As of 2021,

2665-465: The latter category containing one Canadian school, Simon Fraser ). International players, which can compose up to half of a CFL team's roster, are not subject to a draft and enter the league by way of the negotiation list , a process that allows a CFL team to unilaterally stake claim to any international player on a first-come, first-served basis without the player's consent and bar them from negotiating with any other CFL team. This includes almost all of

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2730-476: The league closer in line with global standards within the sport. The Premier Lacrosse League held its first collegiate draft in 2019, shortly before the start of its inaugural season. The WNBA draft is held every spring. It has had several locations during its history; the most recent draft in 2022 took place in New York City, following two drafts held virtually due to COVID-19 concerns. The draft

2795-606: The league consisted of 26 teams. The merger itself didn't require expansion drafts, as AFL teams were already well-established and of comparable strength. So, the next expansion draft happened in 1976 , when two new teams joined the NFL: the Seattle Seahawks and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers . The last three expansion drafts took place between 1995 and 2002 . In 1995, two new teams, the Carolina Panthers and

2860-729: The league has also irregularly held both expansion drafts to help stock the rosters of new teams, and a dispersal draft in which teams could select players from a defunct team . On August 22, 2024, the NWSL announced the elimination of its draft and discovery systems as part of its renegotiated collective bargaining agreement with the National Women's Soccer League Players Association . NWSL teams could pursue and sign any prospective collegiate and international players as free agents, transfers between NWSL teams would require player consent, and all contracts would become guaranteed, bringing

2925-413: The league was expanding quickly, facing the competition from AFL . The last was held in 2002, as the league reached its current state of 32 teams. The first NFL expansion draft took place in 1960 to let the just-enfranchised Dallas Cowboys pick their initial players. Because the new franchise approval happened too late, this was the only time in NFL history that a new franchise could not participate in

2990-501: The league's quarterbacks . In the inaugural 2018 Global T20 Canada a player draft was held for franchises to choose the players from the available pool. Draft order in the NFL is determined in a reverse-record order (the previous season's worst team picking first, the Super Bowl winner picking last). There are 7 rounds of the draft (a maximum of 224 picks), so each team can have 7 selections, plus whatever compensatory selections

3055-580: The league's perennial contenders. It was adopted by the precursor of the National Basketball Association in 1947; by the National Hockey League in 1963; and by Major League Baseball in 1965, although draft systems had been used in baseball since the 19th century. Major Indoor Lacrosse League ( National Lacrosse League ) adopted a collegiate draft in 1988, Major League Soccer in 2000, Major League Lacrosse in 2001, and Major League Rugby in 2020. Sports drafts are uncommon outside

3120-462: The league. It was also a result of the failure of country zoning , introduced in the late 1960s, which had led to a systematic inequality whereby the clubs with the best zones, like Carlton and Hawthorn , could dominate over clubs with poorer zones like Melbourne . In the AFL Draft, clubs receive picks based on the position in which they finish on the ladder. Therefore, the teams that finish at

3185-555: The main auction takes place there is then a rookie draft where each team has two minutes to pick one rookie player that is 18-22 years of age. The team that finished last place in the last season is the first to pick and the team that finished first in the last season is the last to pick. When the Russian Superleague became the Kontinental Hockey League , the collective bargaining agreement between

3250-630: The normal league draft and thus missed on college players. Already in the next season, NFL added a 14th team to its roster, the Minnesota Vikings . In the ensuing expansion draft , the new team picked three players from each of the other franchises (except the still very new Cowboys). Together with the participation in the normal draft , this gave the Vikings enough strength to score three victories in their first season. Later in 1960s, NFL added two more franchises. In 1966, an expansion draft

3315-826: The other four had five teams): the AFC Central (Jaguars) and the NFC West (Panthers). Meanwhile, the two teams in Los Angeles relocated to other cities: the Rams transferred to St. Louis and the Raiders moved back to Oakland ; this would be the start of a 20-year absence for the NFL in Los Angeles. During the course of the season it emerged that the Cleveland Browns would relocate to Baltimore for

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3380-482: The previous season usually get to choose first in the postseason draft, sometimes with a "lottery" factor to discourage teams from deliberately losing. Other types of drafts include the expansion draft , in which a new team selects players from other teams in the league, and the dispersal draft, in which a league's surviving teams select players from the roster of a newly defunct franchise. Major professional sports leagues also have special contingency plans for rebuilding

3445-589: The season: The 1995 season produced four of the top twenty highest single-season totals for receiving yards. Two of the top five teams receiving yard totals of all time – Jerry Rice's 1,848 & Isaac Bruce 's 1,781 – were recorded in 1995. Detroit Lions receiver Herman Moore gained 1,686 yards (6th highest all time) and Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin gained 1,603 yards (11th most in NFL history). December 6- Gerry Cowhig , age 74. Played Linebacker and Running back for Los Angeles Rams , Chicago Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles from 1947 to 1951. This

3510-519: The secondary mid season transfer window runs one month from early July to early August. Major League Rugby implemented its first collegiate draft in 2020 . Players are eligible for draft after 3 years in college at 21 years old. Free agents can try to join teams at 18 years old. Major League Wrestling held its first draft in 2021. NLL held its first collegiate draft in 1988 as Major Indoor Lacrosse League . The National Women's Soccer League used drafts from its inaugural 2013 season until

3575-556: The start of the season, either in the last days of April or the start of May. It was formerly held as part of the annual league meetings in Hamilton , but is now typically held by conference call with the first two rounds being broadcast live on TSN . Since 2016 , the draft has consisted of eight rounds, with teams drafting in inverse order of their records in the previous season, with the Grey Cup runner-up selecting second-to-last and

3640-431: The team losing the player receiving something in compensation such as a future entry draft pick. Teams subject to losing players usually tend to put most if not all of the players they truly need to stay competitive on the protected list. This means that the expansion franchise is often left to choose among players who are old, injury prone, failing to develop as the teams had intended, or perhaps so highly compensated that

3705-399: The top pick to the worst team from the year before, the NBA holds a draft lottery to determine who chooses first. The top four picks are allocated by chance among the 14 teams that did not make the playoffs the year before. This discourages a team from losing on purpose to get a better draft pick, but also causes other controversies such as allegations and conspiracy theories suggesting that

3770-614: The weakest teams from a league in exchange for the strongest teams in the next lower league. In Australian rules football 's premier competition, the Australian Football League (AFL), a draft was introduced in 1986 when the competition was then known as the Victorian Football League (VFL). This was in response to the increasing transfer fees and player salaries at the time, which in combination with declining attendances, threatened to derail

3835-716: Was held at Chicago's Auditorium Theatre , and in 2017 it was held on the Rocky Steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art . The 2018 draft was the first ever to be held at an NFL stadium, namely the Dallas Cowboys ' AT&T Stadium . The NBA Draft, held historically in an NBA city, but in recent drafts in either a theater in the New York area or at the Barclays Center each summer, is only two rounds long (60 picks). Instead of automatically granting

3900-571: Was held every year until MLL merged with the Premier Lacrosse League in December 2020, with the merged league operating under the PLL banner. Major League Soccer has two types of draft that occur each year, plus a third that is held intermittently when the league adds one or more teams . The two annual drafts are the three-round long MLS SuperDraft (a maximum of 81 picks since 2021, down from four rounds and 104 picks in 2020), which

3965-675: Was held for the first time in 2001, and MLS Supplemental Draft , with the MLS Expansion Draft held in the offseason immediately before the league expands. The MLS SuperDraft happens every January. During the draft the teams from the league will pick up to three players each from colleges across the United States. Only players from the American college sports system (e.g., the NCAA and the NAIA ) are eligible to be drafted. Canadian U Sports men's soccer players are not included. The draft

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4030-540: Was held for the new Atlanta Falcons , one year later another expansion draft happened for the 16th team of the league, New Orleans Saints . Like in previous drafts, new franchise could take three players from each of the existing teams (the still-new Falcons were exempt from giving up players to the Saints). However, existing teams were allowed to exclude large parts of their roster from the draft, to avoid losing their most valuable players. As of AFL–NFL merger in 1970 ,

4095-554: Was held on February 15, 1995. The Jacksonville Jaguars held the first pick overall, while the Carolina Panthers were second, alternating picks as the existing teams made six players available for selection. The Panthers ultimately picked 35 players, while the Jaguars picked 31. With the first selection in the expansion draft, the Jaguars selected quarterback Steve Beuerlein from the Arizona Cardinals. Selecting second,

4160-629: Was in 2004 when the Charlotte Bobcats (now Charlotte Hornets ) joined the league as the 30th team. There have been 13 expansion drafts in the National Hockey League , including the 1979 draft following the NHL-WHA merger . The most recent draft was in 2021 , involving the Seattle Kraken . 1961 1966 1967 1968 1970 1974 1980 1988 1989 1995 2004 Draft (sports) A draft

4225-560: Was the second year under the league's four-year broadcast contracts with ABC , Fox , NBC , TNT , and ESPN. ABC, Fox, and NBC continued to televise Monday Night Football , the NFC package, the AFC package, respectively. Sunday night games aired on TNT during the first half of the season, and ESPN during the second half of the season. NBC renamed its pregame show as simply The NFL on NBC . The then-recently retired quarterback Joe Montana joined

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