The NFL Draft takes place towards the end of April each year. Following is the process used by clubs to submit their selections and trades to the league.<\/p>\n
Player Selection:<\/p>\n
Each club communicates its selection by phone from its Draft room at team headquarters to its representatives on-site in\u00a0Dallas at Selection Square. The\u00a0 representatives, seated at team tables, then write the name, position, school, and overall selection number of the club\u2019s selection onto an official selection card.<\/p>\n
For a selection to be made, a completed official selection card is handed to a \u201crunner,\u201d who is stationed at the club\u2019s table while it is on the clock. Upon the \u201crunner\u2019 receiving the selection card, the selection is deemed official and cannot be revoked.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Upon receiving the card, the \u201crunner\u201d will hold it high in the air, notifying the league official at the dais that the selection has been made. A league official at the head table will then announce, \u201cClub A has made its selection, Club B is on the clock,\u201d while the clock is simultaneously re-set.<\/p>\n
A club representative may hand-deliver the selection card to the head table; however, it is far more efficient to hand the card to the \u201crunner,\u201d who will immediately signal to the league official at the dais.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Passing:<\/p>\n
If Club A does not select a player within its time allotment, it is deemed to have passed. A \u201crunner\u201d is also assigned to the table of the club (Club B) that is next in the selection order. If a pass occurs, Club B is permitted to select a player by handing an official selection card to the \u201crunner\u201d at its table.<\/p>\n
While Club A has passed, it has not forfeited its right to select a player and may re-enter the Draft at any point. If Club A hands an official selection card to the \u201crunner\u201d who has remained at its table before Club B makes a selection, Club A\u2019s selection is valid. League officials at the head table will watch both tables in such a situation to determine which selection is made first, and the decision of the league officials is final.<\/p>\n
If a club representative decides to walk the selection card to the head table, the fact that the representative reaches the head table with a selection card before the arrival of the \u201crunner\u201d is immaterial, since the selection of the club represented by the \u201crunner\u201d was valid as soon as the \u201crunner\u201d received the club\u2019s selection card.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Trading:<\/p>\n
Trade information is communicated to the NFL Player Personnel department by telephone. If the trade involves the selection choice that is on the clock, no selection by the club acquiring the choice is valid until the trade has been approved.<\/p>\n
If the trade is not approved within the allotted time, and no selection has been made, the team trading the selection choice will be deemed to have passed. When a trade has been approved, the club acquiring the choice shall have the time remaining on the clock, if any, to make its selection. If no time remains on the clock, the rules related to passing apply.<\/p>\n
When league officials at the head table learn that a trade is in progress, a \u201crunner\u201d will be sent to the table of the club acquiring the selection choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL Draft takes place towards the end of April each year. Following is the process used by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":867454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[7,6,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-867453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-nfl-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116412222213328362","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}