The Marshall Thundering Herd football team, representing Marshall University, has had 283 players drafted into the National Football League (NFL) since the league began holding drafts in 1936.
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 (wild card, division, conference, and Super Bowl).
[4] Before the merger agreements in 1966, the American Football League (AFL) operated in direct competition with the NFL and held a separate draft.
As part of the merger agreement on June 8, 1966, the two leagues would hold a multiple round "common draft".