The 2011 NFL Draft is set to kick off in primetime at 6 p.m. MDT on Thursday, April 28.
WHAT: 76th Annual National Football League Player Selection Meeting.
WHERE: Radio City Music Hall, 1260 Avenue of the Americas, New York City (Between 50th and 51st Streets).
WHEN: 8:00 PM ET, Thursday, April 28 (Round 1).
6:00 PM ET, Friday, April 29 (Rounds 2-3).
Noon ET, Saturday, April 30 (Rounds 4-7).
The first round will conclude on Thursday by approximately 11:30 PM ET. In 2010, the first round consumed three hours and 28 minutes. The second and third rounds will conclude on Friday by approximately 10:15 PM ET. The second and third rounds took four hours and six minutes in 2010. The draft will conclude at approximately 7:15 PM ET on Saturday with the final four rounds. Rounds 4 through 7 took seven hours and eight minutes in 2010.
DRAFTING: Representatives of the 32 NFL clubs by telephone communication with their general managers, coaches and scouts.
ROUNDS: Seven Rounds – Round 1 on Thursday, April 28; Rounds 2 and 3 on Friday, April 29; and Rounds 4 through 7 on Saturday, April 30.
There will be 254 selections, including 32 compensatory choices that have been awarded to 16 teams that suffered a net loss of certain quality unrestricted free agents last year.
The following 32 compensatory choices will supplement the 222 regular choices in the seven rounds – Round 3: Carolina, 33. Round 4: Tennessee, 33; Green Bay, 34. Round 5: Baltimore, 33; Baltimore, 34. Round 6: New York Giants, 33; Kansas City, 34; Minnesota, 35; San Diego, 36; New York Giants, 37; Carolina, 38. Round 7: San Diego, 33; Miami, 34; Minnesota, 35; Philadelphia, 36; Tampa Bay, 37; San Francisco, 38; Philadelphia, 39; Oakland, 40; Seattle, 41; New Orleans, 42; Carolina, 43; Buffalo, 44; Cincinnati, 45; Denver, 46; Cleveland, 47; Arizona, 48; San Francisco, 49; Tennessee, 50; Dallas, 51; Washington, 52; Houston, 53.
New England (Nos. 17 and 28) has two selections in the first round. Oakland does not have a first-round pick. All other teams have one first-round selection.
TIME LIMITS: Round 1: 10 minutes per selection. Round 2: Seven minutes per selection. Rounds 3 through 7: Five minutes per selection.
TELEVISION: NFL Network and ESPN/ESPN 2 will televise the draft on all three days.
INTERNET & MOBILE: Exclusive coverage and behind-the-scenes features on NFL.com and team websites for draft weekend will include: “Draft Tracker” with real-time selection information as well as exclusive pick-by-pick analysis from NFL.com’s experts; exclusive interactive features, including “Fan War Rooms” where fans can discuss their favorite team’s picks, an aggregation of tweets and Twitter predictor tool enabling fans to follow the Draft conversation happening on Twitter; and polls on the NFL’s Facebook page; NFL.com’s LIVE coverage complementing NFL Network’s telecast with live look-ins, exclusive analysis and reports from New York in primetime on Thursday and Friday, plus all day on Saturday; and in-depth coverage from each team website. In addition, “NFL Mobile only from Verizon” will have extensive coverage leading up to and during the 2011 NFL Draft including a live stream of NFL Network and its 2011 NFL Draft coverage, a live draft tracker and draft pick analysis from NFL experts, and the first mobile “Fan War Rooms” integrated with those of NFL.com.
2011 FIRST ROUND DRAFT ORDER
1. Carolina Panthers
2. Denver Broncos
3. Buffalo Bills
4. Cincinnati Bengals
5. Arizona Cardinals
6. Cleveland Browns
7. San Francisco 49ers
8. Tennessee Titans
9. Dallas Cowboys
10. Washington Redskins
11. Houston Texans
12. Minnesota Vikings
13. Detroit Lions
14. St. Louis Rams
15. Miami Dolphins
16. Jacksonville Jaguars
17. New England (from Oakland)
18. San Diego Chargers
19. New York Giants
20. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
21. Kansas City Chiefs
22. Indianapolis Colts
23. Philadelphia Eagles
24. New Orleans Saints
25. Seattle Seahawks
26. Baltimore Ravens
27. Atlanta Falcons
28. New England Patriots
29. Chicago Bears
30. New York Jets
31. Pittsburgh Steelers
32. Green Bay Packers
Tags: 2011 NFL Draft
All anyone who has been living under a rock needs to know about the draft lol. Thx, Great post. D Day is almost upon us. TRB out…
D for Defense. Haha, let’s us dems and repub’s hope so at least!
haha I know right, ill laugh so hard if only 1 of the top 4 picks are spent on D. I doubt it but wouldn’t that be a laugh after all the discussions? lol.
Heres to an Efficient draft. D in 2011. TRB out…
“as well as exclusive pick-by-pick analysis from NFL.com’s experts;”
—- Michael Lombardi is not an expert. the only reason he has a job in the NFL is because his last name is Lombardi
I know we are all in denial of it but John Elway is interested in drafting a quarterback. It’s not gonna be with our #2 overall pick but probably with one of our 2nds if it does happen. Our of the 2nd round grade quarterbacks ( Ponder, Kaepernick, Locker, and Dalton ) who’s your favorite? rank them
1. Locker
2. Ponder
3. Kaepernick
4. Dalton
I’m sad cuz I have to answer my own questions
Locker is my fave. I think he will be very good. Reminds me of the 2006 draft, VY (Cam Newton) and Leinart (Gabbert) went off the board first and the the guy with the rocket arm but accuracy issues went 12 overall to the Broncos and he has been the best QB out of that draft class (Cutler). I dont think locker makes it to the second round and I wish him the best.
btw Locker is the 2011 Cutler (underestimation wise) if I didn’t clarify that in the last post. TRB out
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Didn’t feel like writing the names out cdud!!!
i have a feeling Shanahan will take Locker. If not Seattle will grab him
don’t forget Minnesota at 12. He will not leave the first round.
Frazier’s a defensive coach. I think he’ll grab Luiget to replace the Williams wall.
True but all new coaches want the right to choose their own QB. Oh didn’t know something happened to the williams wall. … thats fine, that keeps the trading orton to vikings dream alive lol. TRB out…
Bummer, this blog is about the draft, no way we are gonna get away from this Dareus vs. PP debate for another 10 days or so… But then peace will set upon us whoever we pick, I can’t wait.
You and me both bro i can’t wait for it to be over. and its possible to get away from the first rounder talks. Ive been trying to talk about draft steal talks but those havent gone far. So far this blog has been QB talk which is a good start even if none of us want to see a QB selected lol. TRB out…
I’m pretty sure Pat is retiring and Kevin is a free agent, but I don’t know…
Both cases can be made for Peterson and Dareus. You can only talk about 2 players for so long until it gets annoying
Couldn’t agree more but I think it got way past the point of annoying, LOL.
Like getting a root canal would of been less painful to me, haha.
You young guys probably don’t know what a root canal feels like, lucky you, LMAO.
I have to agree it was kinda already annoying and over stressed before the complete meltdown/battle in the last blog lol. It wasn’t bad before because it was just ambushes but when both sides were truly present….LOL. TRB out…
heard of the procedure (root canal) but never had one, TRB out…
When you’ll get your first one, you’ll remember how this previous blog felt, hahaha.
hahaha, won’t that be funny, to get one and reminisce like “OMG, this is totally what the MD v PP arguement felt like! Ive felt this before!!!” lol
Here is a wild thought:
The Broncos have not opened a season at Invesco Field at Mile High since 2004. It’s time for the NFL schedule man to stop sticking it to Bronco fans. (With all due respect, Mr. Katz).
The Broncos have once again requested they open the 2011 season at home. It can happen, but probably only if they play on Monday night, Sept. 12.
Here’s the situation: The Broncos’ 2 p.m. home starts conflict on week 1 Sundays with CBS’ (the AFC’s network) coverage of the U.S. Open tennis tourney. So there was little Howard Katz and company could do but send the Broncos on the road for week 1. The Broncos have gone 3-3 in their last six road/season openers: Losing at Miami and St. Louis, winning at Buffalo (Toro! Toro!), Oakland (DeAngelo Hall meets Eddie Royal) and Cincinnati (“Stokley! Woooow!”), and losing at Jacksonville.
But the Broncos are hoping the league realizes a six-year drought is too long. The NFL has been scheduling two Monday night games for its opening week since 2006 (including the Royal route of Hall in Oakland in 2008) and Denver is a strong contender to get one of them when the 2011 regular-season schedule is announced in the next eight days or so.
And if ESPN is going to pull a decent national rating for a prime-time game featuring the 4-12 Broncos, it might encourage an AFC West division rival as an opponent (Oakland, Kansas City, San Diego), or the return of Jay Cutler (Chicago Bears).
I’ll take the Denver-Cutler match up to open the season here on Monday Night, no doubt.
good job of copying and pasting from the denverpost
Cdud do you just try your best to be obnoxious? lol. Bay never post links, he usually just posts the article it self, and if u are used to reading Bays posts u can tell if its him that wrote it or if he is just posting an article. Not to mention the block format will be different.
Its funy bay, freak just posted the link to that in the other blog before he left right before u. Guess u guys read alot of DP lol. TRB out…
Yeah, that was by Klis, same thing, we think alike, LOL.
It’s because I gave him a piece of my mind about the “retards” comment he made earlier, it just even steven kind of stuff, I don’t mind, kind of funny actually…
lol i suppose. the obnoxious comment was referring to both this post and the retard one and others he has made in similar fashion. I was just curious why he tries his best to be unpleasant.
Yeah, “retards” is a very unpleasant word, very offensive if you have ever been associated with people with learning disabilities, kind of like black people not liking the N word, it’s that bad in my opinion and I will always stand up against it since one of my step child is severely handicapped. Only adolescents ignorant of such conditions would use words like that, I hope that’s his excuse. It’s called needing to grow up!
I would really enjoy a home opener at Mile High against the Bears on MNF. That`ll be a good game. I wonder if Jay Cutler is still having the post tramatic stress trauma from the NFC championship game. Poor fella.
Cool, they fixed the time on this blog site. Draft Marcell Dareus!!!!!!
A summary of the past 3 months on this blog:
Peterson
Dareus
Peterson.
Dareus.
Peterson!
Dareus!
PETERSON
Gabbert?
(questioning as to the person’s sanity)
DAREUS
PETERSON!!!
DAREUS!!!
And so on and etcetera
and an occasional Von Miller
And a occasional brewsky.
The PP V MD is the very reason I have stayed away.. too much of a ‘Root Canal’ of a topic. We are about a week out and the picks will be definitive, but some how I think that the dust will not settle till after the first round game.
Klis can be real Knob-Cheese most of time and a ‘Rah-Tard’ (As pronounced in the movie The Hangover) to boot! lol
what if we pick cam newton?
@ Cdud ~ Why would we pick him?
Newton isn`t even in the equation.
We invited him to dove valley for a workout
That doesn`t mean sqaut.
Then why would we waste one of our 30 invitees on him?
Tim Tebow will be a successful starting QB for our Denver Bronco`s. We used 3 draft picks to get him. We are not gonna be wasteful anymore with our draft picks. That`s insanity to go after another QB.
Hahaha, he has a point, i forgot we have a limited number of invites lol.
We think it doesnt make sense but that doesnt mean they dont think it does lol. I doubt it tho
The wonderful game of poker. Head games is all. The more players a team brings in, the more confusion is set in place.
We are going after defense in the first round, enough said!!!!!
If we draft Cam, then for sure Tebow will be TE/RB/FB/Wild Horses QB.
No way we get 3 picks in return. Maybe Matt Leinart and a 7th.
strandoftds, it seems like we’ve been saying that 5 years in a row and it hasn’t happened. haha
Schedule is released tomorrow
Is Ronald Fields still on our team?
I think he was put on IR. Then released. I could be wrong though!