PFL™ Draft

The PFL Draft will be an annual sports draft in which the Professional Football League™ (PFL™) teams will take turns selecting amateur college American football players and other first-time eligible players.

When the time comes, tickets will be available so stay tuned.  Fans will have to arrive early in order to attend our inaugural draft.

Our format will consists of seven rounds. Each team will be assigned a selection in each round, with the team that became a member first in the league being assigned the first pick in each round. The team with the second membership gets the second pick, and so on (with ties broken by strength of schedule) until the last participants are reached.

Each team has its representatives attend the draft. During the draft, one team is always “on the clock”. In Round 1, teams have 15 minutes to make their choice. The decision time drops to 10 minutes in the second round and to 5 minutes in Rounds 3-7. If a team doesn’t make a decision within its allotted time, the team still can submit its selection at any time after its time is up, but the next team can pick before it, thus possibly stealing a player the late team may have been eyeing.

The draft will be the first chance each team gets at players who have been out of high school for at least three years. Players whose high school class did not graduate three or more years before are not eligible for the draft and hence are not eligible to play in the PFL™. Most drafted players come directly out of college programs as seniors or juniors, though some underclassmen are eligible, and other players are selected from other pro leagues. A player who is drafted, but does not sign a contract can sit out that season, which is referred to as a “hold out“, and can re-enter the draft the following year.

We will also consider the Supplemental Draft and Tiebreaking procedures as we grow.