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2024 NFL Draft Player/Agent Pairings

Welcome to another year of providing the player/agent pairings as well as some notes for those selected in the NFL Draft.

Notes

  • 2 of the top 4 picks (Caleb Williams and Marvin Harrison Jr.) opted to go into the NFL Draft without signing agents. While they may have had advisors behind the scenes, they did not sign Standard Representation Agreements with NFLPA Contract Advisors.
  • CAA dominated the top of the first round once again, with 3 clients selected within the first 8 picks and a 4th client taken at #11 as well as a 5th at #12. By that moment of the Draft, CAA had 5 clients selected and no other agencies had more than one client off the board. In all, CAA had 12 first-round picks.
  • Behind CAA were Athletes First and WME Sports, which each had 4 clients selected in the first round.
  • Excel Sports and Wasserman had 2 clients each off the board in the first round of the 2024 NFL Draft.
  • In 2023, 23 agencies shared the wealth of clients selected in this first round. In 2024, the number of agencies with clients selected in the first round dropped to 11.

Round 1

  1. Caleb Williams – No agent
  2. Jayden Daniels – Ron Butler of Agency 1 Sports
  3. Drake Maye – Jim Denton, Patrick Collins, Ed Berry, and Jimmy Sexton of Creative Artists Agency
  4. Marvin Harrison Jr. – No agent
  5. Joe Alt – Tommy Condon, RJ Gonser, and Jimmy Sexton of Creative Artists Agency
  6. Malik Nabers – Rick Roberts, Don Weatherell, Martin Fischman, and Damien Butler of Ballengee Group
  7. JC Latham – Drew Rosenhaus and Ryan Matha of Rosenhaus Sports
  8. Michael Penix Jr. – Reggie Johnson and Tory Dandy of Creative Artists Agency
  9. Rome Odunze – Collin Roberts, Ryan Tollner, and Chase Callahan of Excel Sports
  10. J.J. McCarthy – Brian Ayrault and Joel Segal of WME Sports
  11. Olu Fashanu – Patrick Collins and Ed Berry of Creative Artists Agency
  12. Bo Nix – RJ Gonser and Jim Denton of Creative Artists Agency (on-field) and QB Reps (marketing)
  13. Brock Bowers – Joel Segal of WME Sports (on-field) and ESM (marketing)
  14. Taliese Fuaga – Ryan Williams of Athletes First
  15. Laiatu Latu – CJ LaBoy and Chafie Fields of Wasserman
  16. Byron Murphy – Ron Slavin and Luke McMurtrey of Sportstars
  17. Dallas Turner – David Mulugheta and Trevon Smith of Athletes First
  18. Amarius Mims – Lukman Abdulai and Tory Dandy of Creative Artists Agency
  19. Jared Verse – Joel Segal, Greg Barnett, and Brian Ayrault of WME Sports
  20. Troy Fautanu – Collin Roberts, Ryan Tollner, and Chase Callahan of Excel Sports
  21. Chop Robinson – Ed Berry and Patrick Collins of Creative Artists Agency
  22. Quinyon Mitchell – Patrick Collins and Ed Berry of Creative Artists Agency
  23. Brian Thomas Jr. – Todd France of Athletes First
  24. Terrion Arnold – Nicole Lynn and Kelton Crenshaw of Klutch Sports
  25. Jordan Morgan – Mike Swenson and CJ LaBoy of Wasserman
  26. Graham Barton – Jim Denton, Patrick Collins, and Jimmy Sexton of Creative Artists Agency
  27. Darius Robinson – Chris Cabott of Equity Sports
  28. Xavier Worthy – Jeff Nalley, Graylan Crain, and Jimmy Sexton of Creative Artists Agency
  29. Tyler Guyton – Joe Panos and Todd France of Athletes First
  30. Nate Wiggins – Tory Dandy of Creative Artists Agency
  31. Ricky Pearsall – Ben Renzin of WME Sports
  32. Xavier Legette – Tory Dandy of Creative Artists Agency (on-field) and ESM (marketing)

By Darren Heitner

Darren Heitner created Sports Agent Blog as a New Year's Resolution on December 31, 2005. Originally titled, "I Want To Be A Sports Agent," the website was founded with the intention of causing Heitner to learn more about the profession that he wanted to join, meet reputable individuals in the space and force himself to stay on top of the latest news and trends.

Heitner now runs Heitner Legal, P.L.L.C., which is a law firm with many practice areas, including sports law and contract law. Heitner has represented numerous athletes and sports agents as legal counsel. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at Indiana University Bloomington from 2011-2014, where he created and taught a course titled, Sport Agency Management, which included subjects ranging from NCAA regulations to athlete agent certification and the rules governing the profession. Heitner serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he teaches a Sports Law class that includes case law surrounding athlete agents and the NCAA rules.