NFL Draft

Just the first two. Rounds 3 through 7 are on the second day.

You have to be really good and have scouts notice you. The best (and most likely) way to get into the NHL draft is to get a scholarship to play for a college hockey team. If you are good, scouts and NHL executives will notice you and draft you. The odds are very unlikely, however.

As of August 9, 2007: The #1 pick in the draft, JaMarcus Russell, has not signed a contract. The #2 pick, Calvin Johnson, signed for 6 year deal for $64 million with $27.2 million guaranteed. That is an average of $10.66 million a year. The #32 and final first round draft pick, Anthony Gonzalez, signed a 5 year contract for $10.3 million with $5.4 million guaranteed. That is an average of $2.06 million a year.

Most all first round draft picks sign a 5 or 6 year contract. Since all 32 draft choices are not signed it is not possible to come up with an average but it would be safe to say an average of $5 to $6 million a year would be in the ballpark.

The Broncos will have 10 total draft picks in the 2009 NFL draft. Assuming they do not trade picks any further, as of 4/4/09 there picks will be: Round-Turn-Overall 1-12-12 Denver

1-18-18 Denver (from Chicago)

2-16-48 Denver

3-15-79 Denver

3-20-84 Denver (from Chicago)

4-14-114 Denver

5-13-149 Denver

6-12-185 Denver

7-16-225 Denver

7-26-235 Denver (from Atlanta)

according to Yahoo!Sports Team Rosters, here are some of the players 2009 draft class possesses, with their salary listed next to them:

Will Davis (Arizona):$375,916

Al Afalava (Indy, drafted by Chicago):$410,600

Bernard Scott (Cincy): $387,510

Morgan Trent (Cincy): $422,000

John Phillips (Dallas): $388,250

Myron Pryor (New England): $398,000

Jason McCourty (Tenn.): $399,818

Zach Miller (Jacksonville):$420,500

Brandon Myers (Oakland): $401K

You can do the math of course, but it looks like it's an expected salary of 400K, although this doesn't include any bonuses.

Cleveland Browns selected Tim Couch, quarterback out of Kentucky with the 1st overall pick in 1999.

Couch was widely regarded as a bust. The number 2 pick, Donovan McNabb, has gone on to be the most successful quarterback in Philadelphia Eagles history.

Through the 2010 elections, 6:

RB Eric Dickerson, QB John Elway, CB Darrell Green, QB Jim Kelly, QB Dan Marino, and OL Bruce Matthews.

All were selected in the first round.

DE Richard Dent and RB Roger Craig made it to the final round of the 2010 elections but were not elected. Dent was taken in the 8th round and Craig was taken in the 2nd round.

Roethlisberger was the 11th overall pick in the 2004 NFL draft and 1st pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Yes. When a player is drafted during the NFL draft the team that drafted them owns the signing rights. So, if the player refuses to play they will have to wait a year and then get signed as a free agent. If that team doesn't do anything with the signing rights to the player they will not play in the NFL that year.

If a player is not drafted they become an 'undrafted free agent' and are immediately available to be picked up by any team.

U of Southern Cal

The first round is on ESPN and nfl network but rounds 2-7 are only on NFL network

2005 Alex Smith QB Utah San Francisco 49ers

April 25th-26th, 2009

The Cleveland Browns made University of Kentucky QB Tim Couch the first selection in the 1999 NFL Draft. Tim Couch was drafted #1 by the Cleveland Browns

To be allowed to declare eligibility for the NFL draft, players are required to complete high school and three years of college. The youngest person to enter the NFL is Amobi Okoye, a defensive tackle for the Texans. He was the tenth pick overall for the 2007 draft, being only 19 years old. He came from Nigeria to the United States and tested into the 9th grade at age 12.

You have to be a collegiate football player first, once you're in your junior or senior year, you may declare you are going to the NFL draft, which will make you eligible for NFL teams to pick you during the draft. & if NFL scouts consider you one of the top prospects (best players in the draft), they'll invite you to go up on stage & be able to hold your new teams jersey up in front of the crowd.

Joe Namath. Easily and by far. He was famous and was on a team that won the Super Bowl, so I guess he fits the "fame" criteria. His overall body of work is poor. He threw 47 more interceptions than touchdowns in his career, a low completion percentage, and a passer rating that would put him near the bottom of the league in most era's. There are probably 100 QB's that should be in the Hall instead of him based on actual performance over their careers.

O.J. Simpson was the 1969 first pick in the draft

The 1976 number one pick was defensive end Lee Roy Selmon. He was chosen by the Tampa Bay Buccanneers.

All players who have completed at least three seasons since graduating from high school (meaning the conclusion of the players collegiate true junior or redshirt sophomore season) may declare their eligibility for the NFL Draft.

There is, nor has there ever been a limit on the number of "eligible" players.

1969 Steelers draft choices: Round - Player/College

1 - Joe Greene, North Texas State

2 - Terry Hanratty, Notre Dame

2 - Warren Bankston, Tulane

3 - Jon Kolb, Oklahoma State

4 - Bob Campbell, Penn State

7 - Charles Beatty, North Texas State

7 - Chadwick Brown, East Texas State

8 - Joe Cooper, Tennessee State

9 - John Sodaski, Villanova

10 - L.C. Greenwood, Arkansas AM&N

11 - C. Washington, Arkansas AM&N

12 - Doug Fisher, San Diego State

13 - John Lynch, Drake

14 - Bob Houmard, Ohio

15 - Ken Liberto, Louisiana Tech

16 - Dock Mosley, Alcorn A&M

17 - Bill Eppright, Kent State