65th annual meeting of National Football League franchises to select newly eligible players
The 2000 NFL Draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur U.S. college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 15–16, 2000, at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York.[1][2] No teams chose to claim any players in the supplemental draft that year.
The draft started with Penn State teammates Courtney Brown and LaVar Arrington being selected consecutively, making them the only Penn State players to go number one and two in the same draft. The New York Jets had four first-round draft picks, the most by any team in the history of the draft (17 teams have had three picks but no other has had four).[3]
The draft was notable for the selection of Michigan quarterback Tom Brady at the 199th pick in the sixth round by the New England Patriots. In his twenty-two seasons as a starter, Brady has won three NFL MVP awards, a record seven (6 with the Patriots) Super Bowl titles and five Super Bowl MVPs. As a result of his late selection and subsequent success, Brady is considered to be the biggest steal in the history of the NFL draft,[4][5] and is widely considered to be the greatest NFL player of all time. It was also the first year since 1966 that a pure placekicker was drafted in the first round, with the Oakland Raiders selecting Florida State's Sebastian Janikowski 17th overall. The University of Tennessee led all colleges with nine selections in the 2000 NFL draft.
Trades
In the explanations below, (D) denotes trades that took place during the 2000 Draft, while (PD) indicates trades completed pre-draft.
- Round one
- ^ No. 2: New Orleans → Washington (PD). New Orleans traded its first, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh-round selections (12th, 71st, 107th, 144th, 179th and 218th) in 1999 and first- and third-round selections (2nd and 64th) in this draft to Washington in exchange for Washington's first-round selection (5th) in 1999.[source 1]
- ^ No. 3: San Francisco → Washington (PD). San Francisco traded its first-round selection (3rd) to Washington for their two first-round selections and fourth- and fifth-round selections (12th, 24th, 119th and 154th).[source 2]
- ^ No. 5: Atlanta → Baltimore (PD). Atlanta traded their first-round selection to Baltimore in 1999 in exchange for their 2nd round choice (42) in the 1999 draft.[source 3]
- ^ No. 10: Denver → Baltimore (PD). Denver traded their first-round selection to Baltimore in exchange for their 1st-round (15) and 2nd-round choices (42) in the 2000 draft.[source 3]
- ^ No. 12: multiple trades:
- No. 12: San Francisco → New York Jets (PD). San Francisco traded this selection to the New York Jets in exchange for New York's first-round selection (16) and second-round selection (48).[source 4]
- No. 12: Washington → San Francisco (PD). See No. 3: San Francisco → Washington.[source 2]
- No. 12: Carolina → Washington (PD). Washington received this pick as compensation for signing Sean Gilbert in 1998.[source 5]
- ^ No. 13: multiple trades:
- No. 13: Tampa Bay → New York Jets (PD). Tampa Bay traded two first-round picks (13 and 27) to the New York Jets in exchange for Keyshawn Johnson.[source 6]
- No. 12: San Diego → Tampa Bay (PD). Tampa Bay traded their 1998 second-round pick to San Diego in exchange for their first round pick in 2000.[source 7]
- ^ No. 15: Baltimore → Denver (PD). See No. 10: Baltimore → Denver.[source 3]
- ^ No. 16: multiple trades:
No. 16: New England → N.Y. Jets (PD). New York Jets were awarded New England's first-round selection (16th) and fourth- and seventh-round selections (101st and 206th) in 2001 as compensation for New England signing Jets head coach Bill Belichick, with New England receiving the Jets' fifth-round selection (149th) in 2001 and seventh-round selection in 2002.
No. 16: N.Y. Jets → San Francisco (D). See No. 12: San Francisco → N.Y. Jets.
- ^ No. 19: Dallas → Seattle (PD). Dallas traded their first-round selection (19th) and first-round selection in (7th) to Seattle for WR Joey Galloway.[source 8]
- ^ No. 23: Miami → Carolina (PD). Miami traded its first-round selection (23rd) to Carolina in exchange for Carolina's second-round selection (44th) in 1998.
- ^ No. 24: Washington → San Francisco (D). See No. 3: San Francisco → Washington.
- ^ No. 27: Tampa Bay → N.Y. Jets (PD). See No. 13: Tampa Bay → N.Y. Jets.
- Round two
- Round three
- ^ No. 64: New Orleans → Washington (PD). See No. 2: New Orleans → Washington.
- ^ No. 68: Philadelphia → Tennessee (D). See No. 61: Tennessee → Philadelphia.
- ^ No. 77: Oakland → Pittsburgh (PD). Oakland traded its third-round selection (77th) to Pittsburgh in exchange for Pittsburgh's two fifth-round selections (146th and 163rd) in 1999.
- ^ No. 80: Dallas → Seattle (PD). Dallas traded its third-round selection (80th) to Seattle in exchange for WR James McKnight.
- ^ No. 86: Seattle → San Francisco (D). Seattle traded its third-round selection (86th) to San Francisco in exchange for San Francisco's fourth- and fifth-round selections (119th and 154th).
- ^ No. 87: Washington → Chicago (PD). Washington traded its third-round selection (87th) and first, third, fourth and fifth-round selections (12th, 71st, 106th and 143rd) in 1999 in exchange for Chicago's first-round selection (7th) in 1999.
- Round four
- Round five
- Round six
- Round seven
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