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The Washington Commanders are a professional American football franchise based in the Washington metropolitan area. They are members of the East division in the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL). The Commanders were founded in 1932 as the Boston Braves, named after the local baseball franchise. The franchise changed its name the following year to the Redskins and moved to Washington, D.C. in 1937. In 2020, the team retired the Redskins name after longstanding controversies surrounding it and briefly played as the Washington Football Team before becoming the Commanders in 2022.
Every year during April, each NFL franchise seeks to add new players to its roster through a collegiate draft known as the "NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting", which is more commonly known as the NFL draft. Teams are ranked in inverse order based on the previous season's record, with the worst record picking first, and the second worst picking second and so on. The two exceptions to this order are made for teams that appeared in the previous Super Bowl; the Super Bowl champion always picks 32nd, and the Super Bowl loser always picks 31st. Teams have the option of trading away their picks to other teams for different picks, players, cash, or a combination thereof. Thus, it is not uncommon for a team's actual draft pick to differ from their assigned draft pick, or for a team to have extra or no draft picks in any round due to these trades.
This is a list of the franchise's selections in the NFL draft. The Boston Redskins were one of the nine original franchises that participated in the 1936 NFL draft, which was the first official draft of the National Football League. The first player ever selected in the draft, Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger, chose not to play professional football. Riley Smith, taken second overall by Washington, is the first drafted player to play in the NFL. The franchise also holds the distinction of being the only team to draft the same player in two different drafts, Cal Rossi.[a]
Positions
Key
Inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame
Voted one of the 80 Greatest Redskins
Selected to Pro Bowl
1930s
= 1937 draft
== 1937 draft
== 1938 draft
== 1939 draft
=1940s
= 1940 draft
== 1941 draft
== 1942 draft
== 1943 draft
== 1944 draft
== 1945 draft
== 1946 draft
== 1947 draft
== 1948 draft
== 1949 draft
=1950s
= 1950 draft
== 1950 AAFC dispersal draft
=The dispersal draft gave NFL teams the league rights to the players from teams in the dissolved All-America Football Conference.
= 1951 draft
== 1952 draft
== 1953 draft
== 1954 draft
== 1955 draft
== 1956 draft
== 1957 draft
== 1958 draft
== 1959 draft
=1960s
= 1960 draft
== 1961 draft
== 1962 draft
== 1963 draft
== 1964 draft
== 1965 draft
== 1966 draft
== 1967 draft
== 1968 draft
== 1969 draft
=1970s
= 1970 draft
== 1971 draft
== 1972 draft
== 1973 draft
== 1974 draft
== 1975 draft
== 1976 draft
== 1977 draft
== 1978 draft
== 1979 draft
=1980s
= 1980 draft
== 1981 draft
== 1982 draft
== 1983 draft
== 1984 draft
== 1984 supplemental draft
=The supplemental draft gave NFL teams the league rights to the players who had been eligible to be drafted but were not because they were under contract with teams in the United States Football League or the Canadian Football League.
= 1985 draft
== 1986 draft
== 1987 draft
== 1988 draft
== 1989 draft
=1990s
= 1990 draft
== 1991 draft
== 1992 draft
== 1993 draft
== 1994 draft
== 1995 draft
== 1996 draft
== 1997 draft
== 1998 draft
== 1999 draft
=2000s
= 2000 draft
== 2001 draft
== 2002 draft
== 2003 draft
== 2004 draft
== 2005 draft
== 2006 draft
== 2007 draft
== 2008 draft
== 2009 draft
== 2009 supplemental draft
=For their selection in the supplemental draft, the Redskins forfeited its sixth round pick in the 2010 NFL draft.
2010s
= 2010 draft
== 2011 draft
== 2012 draft
== 2013 draft
== 2014 draft
== 2015 draft
== 2016 draft
== 2017 draft
== 2018 draft
== 2018 supplemental draft
=For their selection in the supplemental draft, the Washington Football Team forfeited its sixth round pick in the 2019 NFL draft.
= 2019 draft
=2020s
= 2020 draft
== 2021 draft
== 2022 draft
== 2023 draft
== 2024 draft
=See also
List of Washington Commanders first-round draft picks
History of the Washington Commanders
List of professional American football drafts
References
External links
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"Draft History: 1936-59". The-Hogs.net. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
"Draft History: 1960-89". The-Hogs.net. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
"Draft History: 1990-Present". The-Hogs.net. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
"Draft History – Washington Redskins". NFL.com. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
"Hall of Famers by Franchise". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
"NFL Draft History and AFL Drafts". Pro Football Reference. Retrieved May 13, 2008.
"NFL Draft History: Full Draft". NFL.com. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
"Professional Football Transactions Archive". Pro Sports Transactions. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
"Pro Football Draft History". Pro Football Hall of Fame. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
"Washington Redskins Draft History". Washington Redskins. Retrieved April 25, 2008.
"Washington Redskins Draft History". NFL.com. Retrieved January 24, 2012.