In the National Football League (NFL), springtime serves as one of the biggest opportunities for a football franchise to rebuild its roster for success in the business of professional football. The NFL draft is where NFL teams select the top rated college players known as draftees to join their team. Three major steps in the NFL draft are scouting the players, trading for draft picks, and selecting draftees.
             Scouting the players plays an important role in the draft. To do this, a scout looks over long hours of film and over a player's college stats to help evaluate a draftee's football skills. Along with looking over the films and stats, the scout schedules a workout for the draftees' to assess their abilities. These workouts test a draftee's strength, speed, and key abilities for a specific position on the football field. Based on everything the scouts have seen, they will rate the draftees against one another. To compare a draftee's skill and abilities they sometimes will compare them to veteran NFL superstars.
             After reaching a conclusion about the draftee's skills, there stands another question. Is a team in a position to pick up the draft they desire? The NFL designates each team with one draft pick per round in a seven round series. Depending on a teams win-loss record of the prior year, determines the teams position in the draft. Therefore, the team with the worst record from the prior football season possesses the first pick in each round. A team then may trade picks or veteran players to the team holding a specific draft pick number they believe will allow them to select a desired draftee. Some teams during the draft do not want to pick up only one specific player, but a group of draftees. To acquire these groups of draftees they may choose to trade down their higher round draft pick for a couple of later round draft picks. The result of this can some
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