The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers have competed in the National Football League (NFL) since 1921, two years after their original founding by Curly Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) and play their home games at Lambeau Field in central Wisconsin.
The NFL draft, officially known as the "NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting", is an annual event which serves as the league's most common source of player recruitment. The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings; the teams with the worst win–loss records receive the earliest picks. Teams that qualified for the NFL playoffs select after non-qualifiers, and their order depends on how far they advanced, using their regular season record as a tie-breaker. The final two selections in the first round are reserved for the Super Bowl runner-up and champion. Draft picks are tradable and players or other picks can be acquired with them.
In 1936, the Packers took part in the first NFL draft of college football players. With the seventh pick of the first round of that draft, Russ Letlow, a guard out of the University of San Francisco, became the Packers' first draft selection. In addition to the annual draft, the Packers took part in the 1950 All-America Football Conference (AAFC) dispersal draft. This draft was organized after the AAFC, which was formed as a competing league in 1946, merged with the NFL. Three teams from the AAFC were admitted into the NFL, while the remaining players from the five defunct teams became automatically eligible for selection by an existing NFL team in the dispersal draft. Eleven of the players drafted by the Packers between 1936 and 1969 have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Ten of these players, along with 25 other Packers draftees, have been inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. The Packers took part in every draft from 1936 to 1969, prior to the AFL–NFL merger and the formation of the modern draft in 1970.
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See also
- Lists of Green Bay Packers players
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