The 1965
American Football League draft
The American Football League draft, the American Football League (AFL, 1960–1969) stocked its teams in two ways:
# Signing free agents (players whose contracts in other professional football leagues had expired, or who had no professional exper ...
took place on November 28, 1964. Held via telephone conference call, it remained the only draft in major professional football history to be held without a central location until the
2020 NFL draft
The 2020 NFL draft was the 85th annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible players for the 2020 NFL season. The first round was held on April 23, followed by the second and third rounds on April 24. The ...
. The
NFL draft
The NFL draft, officially known as the Annual Player Selection Meeting, is an annual event which serves as the most common source of player recruitment in the National Football League. Each team is given a position in the drafting order in reve ...
was held the same day.
With the first overall pick, the
New York Jets
The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the New York metropolitan area. The Jets compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East division. The team p ...
selected quarterback
Joe Namath
Joseph William Namath (; ; born May 31, 1943), nicknamed "Broadway Joe", is an American former professional American football, football quarterback who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL) for 13 seaso ...
.
Player selections
Round one
Round two
Round three
Round four
Round five
Round six
Round seven
Round eight
Round nine
Round ten
Round eleven
Round twelve
Round thirteen
Round fourteen
Round fifteen
Round sixteen
Round seventeen
Round eighteen
Round nineteen
Round twenty
Red shirt draft
Red shirt round one
Red shirt round two
Red shirt round three
Red shirt round four
Red shirt round five
Red shirt round six
Red shirt round seven
Red shirt round eight
Red shirt round nine
Red shirt round ten
Red shirt round eleven
Red shirt round twelve
Notable undrafted players
See also
*
1965 NFL draft
The 1965 NFL draft was held at the Summit Hotel in New York City on Saturday, November 28, 1964. The first player selected was Tucker Frederickson, back from Auburn, by the New York Giants.
The draft was marked by the failure of the St. Loui ...
*
List of American Football League players
This is a list of players who appeared in at least one regular season or postseason game in the American Football League (AFL).
A
* Bud Abell
* Ray Abruzzese
* Ken Adamson
* Tom Addison
* Ben Agajanian
* Harold Akin
* Ted Alflen
* Bruce Alford ...
*
History of American Football League draft
*
List of professional American football drafts
A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...
References
External links
1965 AFL Draft
{{NFL drafts
1965
Events January–February
* January 14 – The First Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years.
* January 20
** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lynd ...
Draft
Draft, the draft, or draught may refer to:
Watercraft dimensions
* Draft (hull), the distance from waterline to keel of a vessel
* Draft (sail), degree of curvature in a sail
* Air draft, distance from waterline to the highest point on a v ...
American Football League draft
The American Football League draft, the American Football League (AFL, 1960–1969) stocked its teams in two ways:
# Signing free agents (players whose contracts in other professional football leagues had expired, or who had no professional exper ...