page_title: List of Washington Football Team first-round draft picks
section_title: Player selections
hierarchical_section_title: List of Washington Football Team first-round draft picks / Player selections
caption_attribution_description: Darrell Green, former American football player.
context_page_description: The Washington Football Team is a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The team competes in the National Football League as a member club of the league's National Football Conference East division. They joined the NFL in 1932 as the Boston Braves. In 1933, the name was changed to the Boston Redskins, with the team moving to Washington, D.C. in 1937. The Redskins name was retired in 2020, with the team taking on the temporarily branding of the Washington Football Team. Washington's first draft selection was Riley Smith, a blocking back from Alabama, in 1936.
  Every year in April, each NFL team seeks to add new players to its roster through a collegiate draft known as the NFL Draft. Teams are ranked in inverse order based on the previous season's record, with the worst record picking first, and the second worst picking second and so on. Teams have the option of trading away their picks to other teams for different picks, players, cash, or a combination thereof. Thus, it is not uncommon for a team's actual draft pick to differ from their assigned draft pick, or for a team to have extra or no draft picks in any round due to these trades.
caption: Darrell Green, first-round draft pick in 1983, played cornerback for Washington between 1983 and 2002, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008.[a]
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