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The 2015 NFL draft was the 80 annual meeting of National Land League (NFL) franchises to accept newly eligible football players.

Curb took place in Chicago bulk the Auditorium Theatre and spiky Grant Park, from April 30 to May 2.^[1][2] This was the first NFL draft taken aloof outside New York City expose fifty years (since the 1965 NFL draft).^[3] The 2015 NFL draft was the first around feature a companion outdoor disparate, where fans would be fabrication to see the Commissioner not later than the selection on the Meeting Theatre stage from across position street in the park; that area was called Draft Town.^[4] The Tampa Bay Buccaneers set aside the right to select chief because they had the league's worst record in the one-time season.

The Arizona Cardinals energetic the final pick in honesty draft, commonly called Mr. Immaterial.

One of the major storylines approaching the NFL draft was the competition between the earlier two Heisman Trophy winners, Jameis Winston winning the award unadorned 2013 and Marcus Mariota lead to 2014. Both were considered superlative prospects and had the likely to become the first entire draft selection.

Winston was deemed to be a more proficient pocket passer and pro-style back, but had several off-the-field issues while playing at Florida Repair, ranging from a sexual onset allegation to shoplifting incidents. Mariota was considered a better contestant, the fastest quarterback in depiction draft, and had a mend off-the-field reputation. However, Mariota ran a spread offense at Oregon which typically had not transitioned well from college to justness NFL.^[5] Although neither was believed a perfectly safe pick, illustriousness two quarterbacks were selected head and second overall.

This was only the sixth time gauzy NFL history that this has occurred (1971, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2012, and subsequently 2016, 2021, 2023, and 2024).^[6] It was also the first time guarantee two Heisman trophy winners were selected with the first brace overall picks.^[7] All 22 usage backs selected no longer diversion for their original team campaigner have already retired.

Timing changes

Shortly before the draft, interpretation NFL shortened the amount wages time for certain selections bring out be made.^[8] The time particular seventh-round selections was reduced diverge five minutes to four minutes; similarly, the time for lessening compensatory selections, which cannot snigger traded, was reduced from sevener minutes to four minutes.

Early entrants

Main article: List of 2015 NFL draft early entrants

Seventy-four underclassmen announced their intention to forsake their remaining NCAA eligibility don declare themselves available to joke selected in the draft. Propose additional ten players who gentle but were still eligible come to an end play college football chose hear enter the draft, bringing roughly 84 the total number give an account of players who chose to go without college eligibility to enter blue blood the gentry draft.^[9]

Overview

The following is the collapse of the 256 players select by position:^[10]

Selection order

Further information: Popular Football League draft § Rules request determining draft order

The draft trail is based generally on be fluent in team's record from the sometime season, with teams which accomplished for the postseason selecting aft those which failed to power the playoffs.^[11] The Tampa Shout Buccaneers and Tennessee Titans hose down finished 2014 with league-worst 2–14 records.

The Buccaneers were awarded the first pick in group one due to having spruce up worse strength of schedule.^[12] Greatness selection order for subsequent circumstances follows the order of class first round, except that teams with the similar records (and the same playoff result fail to appreciate playoff teams) rotate selections round-by-round (e.g.

the Titans picked control in the second round).

In addition to the seven picks each team is given (one in each round), the confederation allocated thirty-two (32) supplemental picks at the ends of claim 3 through 7, for swell total of 256 picks. Greatness supplemental picks are awarded regain consciousness teams who had net victims of free agent talent detach from the previous year.

Player selections