The boards
Eighteen drafts, drawn the way they happened. Rounds run down the side, the ten franchises across the top in draft-slot order. The draft snakes: odd rounds run left to right, even rounds run right to left, which is why a franchise keeps its column all the way down the board rather than sliding across it.
Three things are marked in the cells.
A dagger (†) means the pick was made by a franchise other than the one that owns the column. Somebody traded for that slot. Every dagger is listed under its own board with who used it.
A position in italics follows each name. K and DEF are shown here and excluded everywhere else on the site: kickers and defenses sit on different scoring rules before and after 2015, so they are kept out of every player comparison. This is the record, not a comparison, so they stay in.
A name in quotation marks is the board's own text, unmatched to any NFL player. 32 of 2,021 rows are in that state, almost all of them late-round scribbles on the paper boards. They are shown as written rather than guessed at.
The 1994 through 2007 drafts are not in the archive at all. Of the eighteen boards that are, 387 picks were spent on kickers and defenses and every board is complete except where noted under it.
2025
110 picks, 11 rounds. The board is complete.
The founding draft
The first round, 1994. Written by hand, in a spiral notebook, in somebody's living room. Fourteen managers. Two of them, Pete and Cale, are still here.
The board, transcribed exactly as written. Fourteen picks, fourteen managers, first names only, which is how the league wrote itself down before it had franchises.
Every player, position and team matches the archive on all fourteen picks. What the archive does not have is what the page does with the names.
Three marks on the page, and none of them are in any table.
Picks one and eight carry two names each, and the pair is reversed. Pick 1 reads ROB – JODY; pick 8 reads JODY – ROB. That is a swap, written on the board, and it means the first transaction in league history happened before the first pick was made. Which of the two names is the slot and which is the man who used it cannot be read off the page. The archive currently credits pick 1 to Rob and pick 8 to Jody, by taking the first name on each line, and that is a convention rather than a finding.
Cale’s name is struck through on pick four, with what reads as Sean written in the left margin beside it.
Pick two has Jeff in the left margin next to Ed.
All three are later corrections in the same pencil. They are questions for Pete and Cale, not defects, and they belong on the page rather than tidied off it: a founding document that has been corrected by hand is more trustworthy than one that has not, and the corrections are the only surviving evidence that anything moved that day.