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Pigskin Dispatch Podcast: The 1965 AFL Redshirt Draft

Timothy P. Brown

Nov 16, 2022

Pigskin Dispatch podcaster Darin Hayes and I discuss a recent TidBit about the 1965 AFL Redshirt Draft. Click here to listen, or subscribe to Pigskin Dispatch wherever you get your podcasts.

Pro football had a longstanding rule against drafting players until their original college class graduated. Once college players began redshirting, those players were in school for an extra year. For those players, the NFL allowed future draft picks, and the AFL had a redshirt draft.

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Today's Tidbit... The AFL's 1965 Redshirt Draft

Leafing through the 1967 Official American Football League Guide, I found information regarding their 1965 draft, including some elements I had not thought about in a while. Unlike today when the draft occurs at the end of April, the NFL and AFL held separate 1965 drafts on Saturday, November 28, 1964, two days after Thanksgiving. The drafts occurred as…

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