TheGreen Bay Packers are a professionalAmerican football team based inGreen Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers have competed in theNational Football League (NFL) since 1921, two years after their original founding byCurly Lambeau andGeorge Whitney Calhoun.^[1] They are members of theNorth Division of theNational Football Conference (NFC) and play their home games atLambeau Field in central Wisconsin.^[2][3]

TheNFL draft, officially known as the "NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting",^[4] is an annual event which serves as the league's most common source of player recruitment.^[5] The draft order is determined based on the previous season's standings; the teams with the worst win–loss records receive the earliest picks. Teams that qualified for theNFL playoffs select after non-qualifiers, and their order depends on how far they advanced, using their regular season record as a tie-breaker. The final two selections in the first round are reserved for theSuper Bowl runner-up and champion. Draft picks aretradable and players or other picks can be acquired with them.^[6]

In 1970, the Packers took part inthe first modern NFL draft after the completion of theAFL–NFL merger. With thesecond pick of the first round of that draft,Mike McCoy, adefensive tackle out ofNotre Dame, became the Packers' first modern draft selection.^[7] In addition to the annual draft, the Packers participated in the1984 NFL supplemental draft. This supplemental draft occurred after the formation of theUnited States Football League (USFL) with the primary purpose of selecting players that had already signed with a USFL team in a separate process from the annual draft. TheCanadian Football League (CFL) was also included in this supplemental draft.^[8] In addition to the 1984 supplemental draft, since 1977 the NFL has hosted anannual supplemental draft for players who had circumstances affect their eligibility for the NFL draft.^[9] The Packers have only selected a player once in a supplemental draft, takingMike Wahle in the second round in 1998.^[7] Since 1970, three players drafted by the Packers have been inducted into thePro Football Hall of Fame:James Lofton,LeRoy Butler, andSterling Sharpe.^[10] Lofton, Butler, and Sharpe, along with 32 other Packers draftees, have been inducted into theGreen Bay Packers Hall of Fame.^[11] The Packers have taken part in every modern NFL draft since 1970, most recently in the2025 NFL draft, where they drafted 8 players.^[12]