page_title: List of UConn Huskies in the NFL draft
section_title: Selections
hierarchical_section_title: List of UConn Huskies in the NFL draft / Selections
caption_attribution_description: English: Will Beatty Training Camp 2009
context_page_description: The University of Connecticut Huskies football team has had 42 players selected in the National Football League Draft. Two of those selections were in the first round of the draft, both with the 27th overall pick: running back Donald Brown in 2009 and cornerback Byron Jones in 2015. A Connecticut football alumnus had been selected in every NFL draft from 2007 to 2015 and in twelve of the last fourteen NFL drafts.
  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.
  Before the merger agreements in 1966, the American Football League operated in direct competition with the NFL and held a separate draft. This led to a bidding war over top prospects between the two leagues. As part of the merger agreement on June 8, 1966, the two leagues would hold a multiple round "common draft".
caption: Will Beatty was the first UConn draftee to play for a Super Bowl-winning team: the 2011 New York Giants.[Note 3][Note 4]
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