All players moving from one league to the next (i.e., Flag to Junior, Junior to Senior) along with new players to the DFL, will be rated as an A, B, C Lineman or Back during the Player Evaluations conducted each year, and placed in the blind draft. Teams with returning players will not select players from the draft until all teams have an equal number of players. A player is determined to be a Lineman or Back based on the weight restrictions for each league. In the Junior League, players weighing more than eighty-five pounds are considered Linemen. In the Senior League, players weighing more than one-hundred ten pounds are considered Linemen.

Evaluation dates for the current season.

The DFL will continue to allow players remaining in the same league to return to the same team on which they played in the prior year. Please make note on your registration form of your desire to remain on the same team or enter the draft, if you wish to participate on a different team. This option applies only to players remaining in the same league and is strictly up to the Head Coaches discretion.