The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football franchise based in Glendale, Arizona. The Cardinals compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) West division. The Cardinals were founded as the Morgan Athletic Club in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional football team in the World.[1]
Officially known as the NFL Draft, the event is the NFL's primary mechanism for distributing newly professional players finished with their college football careers to its teams. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings; the teams with the worst win–loss records receive the earliest picks.[2] Teams that qualified for the NFL playoffs select after non-qualifiers, and their order depends on how far they advanced. The final two selections in the first round are reserved for the Super Bowl runner-up and champion.[3] Draft picks are tradable, and players or other picks can be acquired with them.[2][3]
Key
B | Back | K | Kicker | NT | Nose tackle |
C | Center | LB | Linebacker | FB | Fullback |
DB | Defensive back | P | Punter | HB | Halfback |
DE | Defensive end | QB | Quarterback | WR | Wide receiver |
DT | Defensive tackle | RB | Running back | G | Guard |
E | End | T | Offensive tackle | TE | Tight end |
^ | Indicates the player was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. | ||||
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* | Selected number one overall | ||||
— | The Cardinals did not draft a player in the first round that year. | ||||
Year | Each year links to an article about that particular NFL Draft. | ||||
Pick | Indicates the number of the pick within the first round | ||||
Position | Indicates the position of the player in the NFL | ||||
College | The player's college football team |
Player selections
- Source:[4]
References
- ↑ "Franchise History". Arizona Cardinals. March 17, 2015. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
- 1 2 Stewart, Lisa (April 25, 2012). "NFL Draft Basics: Top 5 Things to Know". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
- 1 2 "Patriots hold five selections in 2013 NFL Draft". New England Patriots. April 5, 2013. Archived from the original on May 3, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
- ↑ NFL 2001 Record and Fact Book, Edited by Randall Liu, pp. 393, Workman Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-7611-2480-2