The 2024 NFL Draft will be held around Campus Martius Park and Hart Plaza in Detroit today thru Saturday. The first round will be conducted today and is slated to begin at 5 p.m. PT. The three-day event resumes Friday at 4 p.m. and features the second and third rounds. The fourth through seventh rounds will be selected Saturday beginning at 9 a.m.

Former Cal football players ILB Jackson Sirmon (Senior Bowl) and S Patrick McMorris (NFL Combine, Hula Bowl) have participated in pre-draft events and were joined at Cal's annual Pro Day by six other former Golden Bears in OL Matthew Cindric, WR Brian Hightower, RB Isaiah Ifanse, P Thomas Lee, DL Darius Long Jr. and WR Monroe Young.

The 2024 NFL Draft will be televised live on ABC, ESPN (Thursday/Saturday), ESPN2 (Friday) and the NFL Network. A live stream can also be accessed via ABC, ESPN and NFL+ apps, while live radio coverage is available on ESPN Radio, SiriusXM and Westwood One Sports.

Cal Football NFL Draft Notes

• Cal has had 253 selections all-time in the NFL (245) and AFL (8) Drafts, including at least one player in 80 of the 88 years since the NFL Draft began in 1936.
• Cal has had five safeties selected in the last four NFL Drafts in Ashtyn Davis (2020 – New York Jets, 3rd round, 68th overall), Jaylinn Hawkins (2020 – Atlanta Falcons, 4th round, 134th overall), Camryn Bynum (2021 – Minnesota Vikings, 4th round, 125th overall), Elijah Hicks (2022 – Chicago Bears, 7th round, 254th overall) and Daniel Scott (2023 – Indianapolis Colts, 5th round, 158th overall). All of the safeties are currently on the rosters of the NFL teams they were drafted by other than Hawkins, who was traded from Atlanta to the Los Angeles Chargers during the 2023 season before signing with the New England Patriots as a free agent on March 21.
• Cal has had 27 first-round NFL Draft selections, including two No. 1 overall picks in quarterbacks Jared Goff (Los Angeles Rams, 2016) and Steve Bartkowski (Atlanta Falcons, 1975). Cal has four first-round picks – defensive tackle Tyson Alualu (2010 – No. 10, Jacksonville Jaquars), Goff, quarterback Aaron Rodgers (2005 – No. 24, Green Bay Packers) and defensive end Cameron Jordan (2011 – No. 24, New Orleans Saints) – currently on active NFL rosters. Alualu played in the final two regular-season games of the 2023 season and the most recent NFL playoffs with his current Detroit squad after playing his first seven seasons with the Jaguars and his next six in Pittsburgh. Goff has played the last three campaigns with Detroit after spending his first five with the Rams. Jordan has spent his entire 13-year career with New Orleans. Rodgers played for Green Bay for the first 18 seasons of his career before being traded to his current New York Jets squad prior to the 2023 campaign.
• Cal's six quarterbacks selected in the first round of the NFL Draft is tied for the third most by any college football program behind only Notre Dame (9) and USC (7), while equaling Alabama and Stanford's six. In addition to Bartkowski, Rodgers and Goff, Cal's other first-round quarterbacks include Craig Morton (1965 – No. 5, Dallas Cowboys), Rich Campbell (1981 – No. 6, Green Bay Packers) and Kyle Boller (2003 – No. 19, Baltimore Ravens).
• Punter Bryan Anger was selected in the third round of the 2011 NFL Draft by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the 70th overall pick. His selection was the highest of a punter since West Virginia's Todd Sauerbrun was taken by the Chicago Bears in the second round of the 1995 NFL Draft with the 56th overall pick. No punter has been selected as high as Anger since.
• Eleven of Cal's 15 former players currently on NFL rosters were selected in the NFL Draft. In addition to Anger, Bynum, Davis, Goff, Hawkins, Hicks, Jordan, Rogers and Scott, others are wide receiver Keenan Allen (2013 – San Diego Chargers, 3rd round, 76th overall) and outside linebacker Cameron Goode (2022 – Miami Dolphins, 7th round, 224th overall). After playing his first 11 NFL seasons with the Chargers, Allen was traded to Chicago on March 14 while Goode remains on the Miami roster.
• Cal's first NFL Draft selection was tackle Larry Lutz (Boston Redskins, 6th round, 47th overall pick) in the first year of the NFL Draft in 1936.