Draft By The Numbers

Here are some numbers from the 2019 NFL Draft

Schools with the most players taken:

10 Alabama
  9 Ohio State
  8 Georgia
  8 Oklahoma
  7 Texas A&M
  7 Washington
  6 Clemson
  6 Miami
  6 Mississippi
  6 Notre Dame
  6 Penn State
  0 Cal

Half of Clemson's six players drafted were the defensive linemen selected in the first round.

Cal did have four players signed as undrafted free agents!

Draft Picks by position:
DBs-51
LBs-39
WRs-27
RBs-26
OTs-21
DEs-19
DTs-19
TEs-16
OGs-15
QBs-11
C-4
K-2
P-2
LS-1

A sad one:
49 of the 144 players that declared for the draft with college eligibility went undrafted. Some, if not all, will still get a shot as undrafted free agents. Something should be done. Those that don't get the football shot for which they had dreamed should be able to return to college.

The Minnesota Vikings came out of the draft with twelve players. I haven't seen a Vikings draft class that large since the days when the draft had that many rounds (1991).

Here are some more draft numbers from the Minneapolis Star Tribune:

5-10 Height of first overall pick Kyler Murray. He’s the shortest quarterback drafted in nearly two decades.

1982-83 The last time a team — the Baltimore Colts — used first-round choices on quarterbacks in consecutive years before the Cardinals. 1982 pick Art Schlichter (No. 4 overall) was a legendary bust. The next year’s mulligan at No. 1, John Elway, claimed he’d rather play for the Yankees than the Colts, and was promptly traded to Denver.

8. Defensive linemen chosen among the first 20 picks.

0. Previous times that two tight ends from the same school were drafted in the first round. Iowa’s T.J. Hockenson was selected eighth by the Lions and fellow Hawkeye Noah Fant was chosen 20th by the Broncos.

23. Picks made before the first wide receiver or running back was selected. The Raiders took Alabama running back Josh Jacobs at No. 24. The Ravens used the next pick on Oklahoma receiver Marquise Brown.

1. Cornerbacks drafted in the first round. The Giants used the 30th pick to select Deandre Baker from Georgia.

1. Players drafted in the first round who came from outside the Football Bowl Subdivision. Houston took offensive tackle Tytus Howard from Alabama State from the FCS.

1995. The last time a Big Ten quarterback (Penn State’s Kerry Collins) was drafted in the first round before Dwayne Haskins.

0. USC or UCLA players selected in the first two rounds. That hadn’t happened since 1965.

6. Quarterbacks drafted on Saturday, the last of which was Penn State’s Trace McSorley (by the Ravens).

110. The first special teamer went to San Francisco, which drafted Utah punter Mitch Wishnowsky at No 110.

145. The next special teamer taken was also from Utah. Placekicker Matt Gay was drafted by Tampa Bay at No. 145.

13. Consecutive years in which the SEC has led all conferences for most players drafted. It finished with 64 this year — 11 more than last year — including nine first-rounders.

254. Total picks made. The final pick, Mr. Irrelevant, was UCLA tight end Caleb Wilson by the Cardinals.

600,000. Approximate three-day attendance in Nashville. “Far outkicked our coverage, our dreams, our thoughts,” said Butch Spyridon, president and CEO of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. “Way bigger than anything we could’ve imagined.”