A football draft game with a draft night of its own

Draft night in Sideline Legacy starts at night on a prospect's college campus. By the end of it, a kid most people have never heard of is standing on stage holding up your jersey.

Pixel art from Sideline Legacy's football draft night: a college campus under a full moon, with a lit football stadium near the water. A draft graphic along the bottom reads Round 1, Pick 6, Ives Fendale, defensive tackle, University of Thornson Derechos. — Draft night starts on a prospect's college campus.
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Build your board first

Every prospect comes out of a made-up college program, and at first you won't know much about any of them. You scout, watch the combine and pro day results come in and build your board from there. Your staff give you an estimate for every prospect as a range, and the range narrows the more reports come in.

Sideline Legacy scouting board for the 2027 draft class: 90 prospects with their position and school, your staff's estimate for each and a range that narrows as more reports come in. — The scouting board for a draft class, with your staff's estimates.
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Sideline Legacy combine and pro day results for football draft prospects from made-up schools such as Harberg A&M, Rathhurst Tech and Ostdale University, with each prospect's position and height. — Combine and pro day results, from made-up college programs.
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Sideline Legacy prospect card for tackle Calder Farlow of Hollowood Tech, age 23, 6'5" and 304 pounds: your staff's estimate of 55 to 63 from 6 reports, number 4 on your board, and his workout numbers, from a 32.5-inch vertical jump to a 5.15-second hand-timed 40-yard dash at his pro day. — A prospect's card: his workout numbers and your staff's estimate.
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The war room

When you're on the clock, your staff are in the room with you, and they don't always agree. Your director of scouting might be pounding the table for a guy his own reports love. Every staff member's track record is right there on screen, so you can see whose opinion has paid off before you decide whose to trust.

Pixel art from Sideline Legacy's football draft night broadcast: the draft stage under the lights, with a big screen reading On the clock, Whitcombe Prospectors, round 1, pick 5 (5th overall) above an empty podium and a packed crowd. A graphic along the bottom shows the Prospectors on the clock with pick 5. — Round 1, and the Whitcombe Prospectors are on the clock.
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Pixel art of a football draft war room in Sideline Legacy. Four staff members sit at a long table under a board of prospect names, and a screen shows the Portland Frostbites on the clock with round 1, pick 5. The director of scouting, Dralin Maysmith, says: I want Ives Fendale. My own reports grade him 81. — On the clock, and your staff don't agree.
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Sideline Legacy draft screen when you're on the clock with pick 6 in round 1: buttons to make the pick yourself in the Draft Room or let the staff pick from your board, settings for when the sim stops (a trade offer, a tagged player about to go) and no trade offers right now. — You're on the clock: make the pick yourself, or let your staff make it.
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Sideline Legacy staff recommendations for a draft pick: five prospects, a tackle, a cornerback, a safety, a running back and a quarterback, each with your staff's estimate as a range, notes on roster needs, character questions and medical risk, and buttons to see his details or draft him. — Your staff's recommendations, each with their estimate.
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The pick is in

Once you make the pick, the commissioner announces it from the podium. Then your guy comes up on stage and holds up your jersey for his photo.

Pixel art of the football commissioner in Sideline Legacy, a gray-haired man in a suit at a podium with the league shield on it. His caption reads: With the 5th pick in the 2027 draft, the Whitcombe Prospectors select... — The commissioner reads out the pick.
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Pixel art from Sideline Legacy's football draft night broadcast: the big screen shows tight end Femi Woldthorn of the University of Quargrove as the Whitcombe Prospectors' pick at number 5, while he stands on stage in a number 1 jersey beside the commissioner. A graphic along the bottom notes he was mocked at number 7. — Femi Woldthorn goes fifth to the Whitcombe Prospectors.
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Pixel art football draft night photo from Sideline Legacy. A gray-haired executive in a suit stands beside Niall Ellston, a defensive end from Shipbury Tech, who holds up a number 1 jersey. A graphic reads Round 1, Pick 5, Your pick. — The pick is in.
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A football draft simulator where the picks stay on your team

Sideline Legacy is a football game, so the players you draft join your roster and play for you. Every one of them has a story you can follow from draft night on. Some of them never pan out. One of them might start making a play every time the ball comes his way, and before long he's the guy you build around.

Guys who go undrafted aren't gone either. Some of them can still make your team.

Your coaching career

Pixel art of the green room on draft night in Sideline Legacy: prospect Calder Farlow sits between two guests with a phone to his ear, under a graphic that reads Calder Farlow gets the call, the Larkmoor Lamplighters on the line. — In the green room, Calder Farlow gets the call.
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Pixel art draft recap from Sideline Legacy: the Bellhaven Timbermen's 2027 class, seven picks from round 1 to round 7, each with a portrait, position, college and a news note, under Imani Corrigan's grade for the class: B. — Your draft class, and one opinion of how you did.
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Sideline Legacy list of completed draft picks from the seventh round, picks 49 to 56, each with a pixel-art portrait, club, position, college and a note such as 4 college seasons at Mershaw University. Pick 54, defensive tackle Jaton Hatherweather of the University of Saltett, is marked Your pick. — The last picks of a draft, with your seventh-rounder marked.
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The draft is one part of the roster

If you take the general manager job too, the draft sits alongside free agency, contracts, the salary cap and trades.

Running the roster

Quick answers

Is this a fantasy football draft tool?

No. It's the draft inside Sideline Legacy, a football head coach simulator, and the players you pick play for your team.

Are the prospects real players?

No. Every prospect and every college program is made up.

Can undrafted players still make my team?

Yes. Guys who go undrafted aren't gone, and some of them can still make your team.

When can I play it?

Sideline Legacy is coming soon to Steam. Join the playtest list to hear first.