page_title: List of North Carolina Tar Heels in the NFL Draft
section_title: Players selected
hierarchical_section_title: List of North Carolina Tar Heels in the NFL Draft / Players selected
caption_attribution_description: English: Minnesota Vikings defensive end Jared Allen (left), Chicago Bears DE Julius Peppers (right) and New York Giants DE Jason Pierre Paul joke about the previous defensive series during the 2013 NFL Pro Bowl at Aloha Stadium, Jan. 27.
context_page_description: The North Carolina Tar Heels football team, representing the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has had 215 American football players drafted into the National Football League since the league began holding drafts in 1936. The highest that a Tar Heel has ever been drafted is second overall, which has happened on four occasions: Ken Willard in 1965, Lawrence Taylor in 1981, Julius Peppers in 2002, and Mitch Trubisky in 2017 The Buffalo Bills and Washington Redskins have drafted the most Tar Heels with sixteen and fifteen, respectively. Every current NFL franchise has drafted a player from North Carolina.
  Each NFL franchise seeks to add new players through the annual NFL Draft. The draft rules were last updated in 2009. The team with the worst record the previous year picks first, the next-worst team second, and so on. Teams that did not make the playoffs are ordered by their regular-season record, with any remaining ties broken by strength of schedule. Playoff participants are sequenced after non-playoff teams, based on their round of elimination.
caption: Julius Peppers was drafted 2nd overall by the Carolina Panthers in the 2002 NFL Draft.
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