By Sam Farmer
Each team seemed to come up with a favorable move, but also with strange ones.
By Bill Dwyre
NFL and the players' union need to learn from the divergent retirement paths of two 1950s star running backs, one of whom died of complications from dementia.
By Sam Farmer
Stanley Havili (Philadelphia), David Ausberry (Oakland) and Malcolm Smith (Seattle) are chosen consecutively in the seventh round. Three other USC players and one UCLA Bruin (David Carter) are selected on the final day of the draft.
By Sam Farmer
NFL lockout, briefly lifted, is back in place when appellate court grants a temporary stay while it considers whether to allow a longer stay.
By Sam Farmer
Carolina makes Auburn's Cam Newton the No. 1 pick overall, and three other teams in the top 12 also select quarterbacks.
By Sam Farmer
Ayers, an outside linebacker thought to be a potential first-round pick, goes to Tennessee with the seventh pick in second round, 39th overall. Six picks later, Denver takes Moore, a safety.
Associated Press
Players can talk to coaches and work out; guidelines on roster moves will be set.
By Gary Klein
USC tackle, selected with the ninth pick in the draft, is already talking about doing great things in the NFL.
By Sam Farmer
The selection of players begins Thursday with Round 1, but, unlike in most years, teams will be picking players with whom they haven't been able to negotiate beforehand — and draftees won't know if they'll even have a rookie season this year.
By Sam Farmer
U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson denies stay of order lifting lockout; league to ask appeals court to consider case on an expedited basis.
By Chris Dufresne
Not everybody is sold on whether the Auburn quarterback, whose draft status seems to change daily, might be the top pick.
By Sam Farmer
The draft will be held Thursday to Saturday in New York. Times' NFL writer Sam Farmer examines the needs for each team by division. Today, the West divisions.