Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Georgia is number 1 in the NFL draft

The NFL draft crown will remain in the SEC for yet another year.
The country's toughest conference in college football took home bragging rights for the fifth straight year when it came to the number of guys drafted. While the SEC didn't trump last year's record of 49 players drafted from a single conference, it did edge out the rest of the competition with 38 selections through the seven rounds.
As for the rest of the automatic qualifying conferences, the Pac-12 (formally the Pac-10) finished second with 37, followed by the Big Ten (36), ACC (35), Big East (22) and Big 12 (19).
The SEC has now led or tied for the most selections in the NFL draft for 12 of the past 14 seasons.

For those keeping score at home, since 1990, the SEC has had 820 total selections in the NFL draft, an average of 35.7 selections per year. The Big Ten is second with 708 selections. And since 1997, the SEC has had 590 total selections in the NFL draft, an average of 39.3 selections per year.
The SEC also topped all conferences in players taken in the first three rounds. The SEC had 20, followed by the ACC (19), Pac-12 (15), Big Ten (13), Big 12 ( 9) and Big East (4).

Florida was dethroned as the SEC draft champ as Georgia and LSU tied for the conference lead with six draft selections. Vanderbilt was the only school not to have a player drafted. Alabama led with four players being drafted in the first round.

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