The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and the highest professional level of American football in the world. Each NFL season begins annually with a three-week preseason in August, followed by the 18-week regular season which runs from early September to early January, with each team playing 17 games and having one bye week. Following the conclusion of the regular season, seven teams from each conference advance to the playoffs, a single-elimination tournament that culminates in the Super Bowl, which is contested in February and is played between the winners of the AFC and NFC championship games.
The National Football League draft, also called the NFL draft or (officially) the Annual Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment in the National Football League. Each team is given a position in the drafting order in reverse order relative to its record in the previous year, which means that the last place team is positioned first and the Super Bowl champion is last. From this position, the team can either select a player or trade its position to another team for other draft positions, a player or players, or any combination thereof. The round is complete when each team has either selected a player or traded its position in the draft. The first draft was held in 1936, and has been held every year since.
David Duke Carr is an American former football quarterback who played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Fresno State Bulldogs and was selected first overall by the Houston Texans in the 2002 NFL Draft. Carr also played for the Carolina Panthers, the New York Giants, and the San Francisco 49ers. With the Giants, Carr was a member of the team that won Super Bowl XLVI. He currently serves as the offensive coordinator at Bakersfield Christian High School.
Napoleon Ardel McCallum is an American former football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons. McCallum played college football for the Navy Midshipmen, and then played professionally for the Los Angeles Raiders of the NFL. He is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame.
Bobby Hoying is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes. He was selected in the third round of the 1996 NFL draft. He is the grandson of baseball player Wally Post, who played 15 years in the Major Leagues. Post was an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds 1961 National League pennant winning team.
In gridiron football, the long snapper is a center on special teams whose duty is to snap the football over a longer distance, typically around 15 yards during punts, and 7–8 yards during field goals and conversion attempts.
Tshimanga "Tim" Biakabutuka is a former American football running back. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1993 to 1995, and was drafted with the eight overall pick in the 1996 NFL draft by the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He is holds the Michigan Wolverines single-season rushing record with 1,818 rushing yards in 1995. He is also distinguished as being the first Zairian to play in the NFL.
The 1986 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 29–30, 1986, at the Marriott Marquis in New York City, New York. The league also held a supplemental draft after the regular draft and before the regular season.
Todd William Lyght is a former professional American football player and former defensive backs coach for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
Tavian Remond Banks is an American former football player and coach who played as a running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, earning third-team All-American honors in 1997. He was selected by the Jaguars in the fourth round of the 1998 NFL draft, where played from 1998 to 2000. He also was a member of the New Orleans Saints.
Warren Powers is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Denver Broncos, the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Raiders. He was selected by the Broncos in the second round of the 1989 NFL draft. Powers played college football for the Maryland Terrapins.
Jerraud Powers is a former American football cornerback. He played college football at Auburn and was selected by the Indianapolis Colts in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft. He also played for the Arizona Cardinals and Baltimore Ravens.
Alfred Alonzo "A. J." Jenkins Jr. is a former American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the first round of the 2012 NFL Draft, and also played for the Kansas City Chiefs and Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Illinois.
The 2012 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season. They were led by third-year head coach Bob Surace and played their home games at Powers Field at Princeton Stadium. They are a member of the Ivy League. They finished the season 5–5 overall and 4–3 in Ivy League play to places in a three-way tie for third. Princeton averaged 7,984 fans per game. Captain Mike Catapano was Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year. He was drafted in the 2013 NFL Draft by the Kansas City Chiefs with the first pick of the seventh round becoming Princeton's first draftee since Dennis Norman in the 2001 NFL Draft.
Jeffrey Bruce Christensen is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Eastern Illinois Panthers and was selected in the fifth round of the 1983 NFL Draft. He played in the NFL for the Cincinnati Bengals, Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns.
John Paul Powers, born John Paul Theiss, was an American college and professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons during the 1960s.
The Cleveland Rams were a professional American football team that played in Cleveland from 1936 to 1945. The Rams competed in the second American Football League (AFL) for the 1936 season and the National Football League (NFL) from 1937 to 1945, winning the NFL championship in 1945, before moving to Los Angeles in 1946 to become the first of only two professional football champions to play the following season in another city.
Scott Daly is an American football long snapper for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Notre Dame.
Ben Powers is an American football offensive guard for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oklahoma.
Drake Lee Maye is an American football quarterback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Maye played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels, leading the NCAA with over 5,000 yards of total offense and setting school-records in passing yards (4,321) and touchdowns (38) in 2022. Maye was selected third overall by the Patriots in the 2024 NFL draft.
