NFL Draft 2024: Washington Commanders and their unusual number of selections in the Top 100
March 16, 2024
Adam Peters, new General Manager of the Washington Commanders and the main protagonist of the Commanders having six selections within the top 100 of the draft. / Credits: Theathletic.com
Although the 2024 season of the National Football League (NFL) came to an end after Super Bowl, but it doesn’t mean there won’t be more NFL until August. While we wait for the preseason games, in just over a month the second most important event (behind the aforementioned Super Bowl) of the year is coming up, the NFL Draft 2024.
The beginning a little less than a week ago free agency changed things for many of those involved, among them the protagonists of this note, the Washington Commanders. The team from the American capital enters with a surprising number of picks within the top 100 of the next draft.
Yes ok the spotlight will always be on the first roundnot bad look outside the first 32 picks of the Draft, since a hidden gem there always can be, especially the lower one goes in the draft. And although The Commanders are not the most successful team in recent yearsthe total change in mentality they made during this preseason makes them look like a serious team that will improve drastically.
NFL Draft 2024: Washington Commanders and their unusual number of selections in the Top 100
The team of the American capital has a surprising six selections in the top 100 of the next NFL Draft. After a season where he alone managed four wins in 17 games, Commanders will have the possibility of completely rearm by 2024.
Since the 2000 draftWashington is the 10th team to have six picks in the top 100 in the same draft. The other teams that achieved it were: San Francisco 49ers in it 2000; Houston Texans in it 2002; Oakland (at the moment Las Vegas) Raiders in it 2007; Atlanta Falcons y Kansas City Chiefs in it 2007; New England Patriots in it 2009; St. Louis (at the moment The Angels) Rams in it 2012; Cleveland Browns in it 2016; y Miami Dolphins in it 2020.
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If we go back further into the past the record for the most selections within the top 100 from the same draft, four teams have them with eight selections: New England Patriots in 1982; Houston Oilers (current Tennessee Titans) in 1983; Cincinnati Bengals in 1986; y Dallas Cowboys in 1991. It is worth noting that in each of the Only 28 franchises participated in these seasons. instead of the 32 that they do today, so the rounds had fewer picks than today.
It is worth saying that within these 24 selections (counting the four teams simultaneously) were chosen two players who today belong to the hall of fame: Patriots LB, Andre Tippett selected with pick 41 in the 1982 draft; and the OL of the Oilers/Titans, Bruce Matthews with the 9th pick in the 1983 draft. While The Cowboys and Bengals classes have yet to produce any players who have made it to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Alvaro Towers Swanston
Student of the Higher University Technique in Sports Journalism at the National University of La Plata. American Football writer since 2020 (mainly NFL), and editor at No Huddle since 2023.
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