The season ended when the Green Bay Packers defeated the New York Giants in the NFL Championship Game.
With the first pick, the Chicago Cardinals selected center Ki Aldrich from Texas Christian University (TCU).
The Chicago Bears picked future Hall of Fame quarterback Sid Luckman of Columbia University with the second overall selection.
Winner of the 1938 Heisman Award, quarterback Davey O'Brien of TCU, was selected with the fourth pick of Round 1 by the Philadelphia Eagles.
[1] An additional 32,279 people attended the 1939 league championship playoff game, for a 56-game total of 1,312,611 — an increase of 12.3% over the previous year.
Detroit was unbeaten after four games, but on October 22, Green Bay beat them 26–7 to give both teams records of 4–1–0.