NFL Draft eligibility explained

The National Football League is one of the major professional sports leagues in America. Currently, in the league, a total of 32 teams divided into two equal conferences compete against each other to win the title. It takes a total of 18 weeks to decide which team will be competing against each other in the playoffs.

Every team in the league has a minimum of 53 players. As of now, every player who makes it into the NFL needs to be picked by a team in the NFL Draft. Well, who can make a place in the draft? College students? School students? Or anyone else? So, let’s take a look at the NFL Draft eligibility explained in the article.

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NFL Draft eligibility explained

For a player to be eligible for the NFL draft, he must have been a part of the high school football team for at least three years. Also, he must have used his college eligibility before the start of the next college football season.

Players are only eligible for the draft at the end of their college year. Apart from that, there is no other way to enter the NFL draft. It is quite difficult to make a place in the NFL draft, as there are more than 1,00,000 football players, and around 259 players make it into the draft.

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