We have a few draft threads over in the NFL Chatters board, but this one I wanted to go over what happened this year more from a collegiate point of view, as a college football fan, rather than as an NFL football fan.
- First things first...I think it's a bit of an understatement to say that the University of Alabama had themselves a pretty good draft class, with 6 players drafted in the 1st round, and 10 players drafted overall. For the past 5 years, Alabama has averaged about 10 players taken per year (51 total). That is incredible, and is tied with the 1973-77 USC Trojans for the most draft picks ever over a 5 year period. Is it any wonder that Nick Saban pretty much gets just about any recruit he wants? All he has to do is point to his record...His pitch is simple: Come to Alabama, we win National Championships, and put more players in the NFL than any other program out there. - The SEC in general had a great draft, with 65 total players selected. Next comes the ACC with 51, the Big Ten with 44, the Pac-12 with 28, and at the bottom of the Power Five, is the Big XII, with 22 total players drafted. - I think it was a smart move by Miami, Cincinnati and Jacksonville to give their young QBs a player they already know...Tua Tagovailoa gets one of his favorite collegiate targets in Jaylen Waddle, Joe Burrow gets Ja'Marr Chase, and Trevor Lawrence gets his partner in the backfield, Travis Etienne. - Duke had four players drafted, Michigan State had zero. The University of Michigan and the University of Florida are the only two schools have had at least one player taken in every draft of the modern draft era. - For the first time since it became the Big XII, no Big XII player was selected in the first round. The SEC dominated that, just like it did the draft overall, with 12 1st round picks. The B1G was 2nd with 7, then the ACC with 6, Pac-12 with 3, AAC with 2, Indies with 1, and the FCS with 1. - At some point, more Michigan Wolverines fans will start to wonder why Jim Harbaugh doesn't win more with teams that have multiple NFL draft picks on them...Michigan went 2-4 in a COVID shortened season, and still saw 8 players get drafted into the NFL this year. At some point, we have to start asking why if his rosters have that much talent on them, the team doesn't win consistently...
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