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You have to be a collegiate football player first, once you're in your junior or senior year, you may declare you are going to the NFL draft, which will make you eligible for NFL teams to pick you during the draft. & if NFL scouts consider you one of the top prospects (best players in the draft), they'll invite you to go up on stage & be able to hold your new teams jersey up in front of the crowd.
Yes. When a player is drafted during the NFL draft the team that drafted them owns the signing rights. So, if the player refuses to play they will have to wait a year and then get signed as a free agent. If that team doesn't do anything with the signing rights to the player they will not play in the NFL that year. If a player is not drafted they become an 'undrafted free agent' and are immediately available to be picked up by any team.
Kentucky, 2010, five first round picks
there are none, but the age was changed 2 years ago from 18 (or just out of high school) to 19 (after freshman year of college) but you can go to Europe to play professionally there for a year and return to the us at 19 and enter the draft.