NFL draft picks since 1999 by school

[Jaxbuck]

Link to yahoo article

3. Ohio State

Draft picks since 1999: 70

First-round picks: 17

Highlights: CB Antoine Winfield, CB Nate Clements, DE Will Smith, WR Santonio Holmes, LB Na?il Diggs, DT Ryan Pickett, CB Chris Gamble

Lowlights: WR David Boston, LB Andy Katzenmoyer, RB Joe Montgomery, CB Derek Ross

Skinny: No college program produced more NFL draft picks over the past 10 years, and no team had a larger single haul than the Buckeyes? monstrous 14-pick class in 2004. How Ohio State didn?t win more national championships over this span is anyone?s guess, particularly given the program?s absurd wealth of defensive talent. The Buckeyes were the preeminent producer of talent in the secondary over the last decade.

Maybe the only thing keeping them from taking the runner-up spot to Miami is the number of young players who have yet to hit their stride ? linebackers A.J. Hawk and Bobby Carpenter, safety Donte Whitner and defensive end Vernon Gholston among others. If USC has a stranglehold on the NFL?s underachieving young offensive talent, then Ohio State is its defensive counterpart.

8. Michigan

Draft picks since 1999: 48

First-round picks: 8

Highlights: QB Tom Brady, G Steve Hutchinson, LB Ian Gold, T Jon Jansen, LB Larry Foote, T Jeff Backus, LB Cato June

Lowlights: WR David Terrell, WR Marquis Walker, TE Ben Joppru, CB Jeremy LeSueur, RB Chris Perry, G David Baas

Skinny: It remains to be seen how new coach Rich Rodriguez will fare, but the previous 10 years under Lloyd Carr?s direction established a dependable NFL pipeline. Aside from the rare freak who tested out extremely well, Carr?s Michigan teams had a reputation for guys who proved to be good players despite not being first-round picks. Amongst NFL personnel men, Carr?s players had a history of interviewing very well and scoring high in football intelligence. Many also proved to be good in the locker room. One of the few complaints about the program was that Carr tended to be overly secretive.

?Within the last few years, they had a first-round guy that we wanted to get in and see in their practices, and he refused,? an NFC personnel man said. ?It wasn?t a first. He just didn?t like the idea of letting [scouts] in. I think [Carr] had paranoia about that attention influencing players to leave early. ? It never prevented us from getting an accurate [report] together, but it made it more difficult than it had to be.?

Notre Dame (48): Only three first-round picks and a generous number of low- to zero-impact talent on the NFL level. Defensive end Justin Tuck is the only major star to emerge from this program in a decade.

 

[NFBuck]

scUM is about to take a nosedive on that list as long as Richie is in charge up there.

 

[billmac91]

Link to yahoo article

what's interesting to me, is Ohio State has cranked out the highest total on that list, but the article headline says, USC and Miami cranking out NFL players.

Ohio State is listed at #3, but again, they've had the most picks since 1999 with 70. #2 is Miami with 65 players.

 

[NFBuck]

what's interesting to me, is Ohio State has cranked out the highest total on that list, but the article headline says, USC and Miami cranking out NFL players.

Ohio State is listed at #3, but again, they've had the most picks since 1999 with 70. #2 is Miami with 65 players.

I think it's going by overall quality over quantity.

Interesting to see Purdue at #10 over schools like State Penn, LSU, Oklahoma, Wiscy, etc...

 

[3074326]

So lame that scUM is credited with Tom Brady.

I mean, I know why and it makes sense, it's just stupid. :p

 

[OregonBuckeye]

Not sure why Texas hasn't produced more NFL players given how highly their recruiting classes are rated. They are well below the other NFL factories.

 

[scott91575]

Not sure why Texas hasn't produced more NFL players given how highly their recruiting classes are rated. They are well below the other NFL factories.

Because Texas recruits get a lot of attention in HS, and Texas takes almost all Texas recruits.

 

[OregonBuckeye]

Because Texas recruits get a lot of attention in HS, and Texas takes almost all Texas recruits.

Also think it supports Butch Davis' theory to a degree:

"You may be buying the finished product," Davis said. "There's a little bit of that in Texas. Those schools have got more money than God. They have a strength coach, 15 high school coaches. The players have been in the same program since sixth or seventh grade. You get them and four years later they are the exact same player.

"You go to Pahokee, Fla., where a kid eats once a day, his parents may not be around," Davis said. "You get him in a weightlifting program. Two years later, he's three times better than the kid from Texas."

 

[Jaxbuck]

I thought it was interesting that this list covers all but 1 year of the BCS era (1998) and the 2 teams that have won the most BCS titles (LSU and UF) weren't on the list or barely made it per the author.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Ohio State has been the most consistent non-Alabama producer of elite talent. Each of its 2013-17 recruiting classes manufactured at least one first-round pick among Top247 players, and its drafted percentage (58.7%) is the fourth highest among all teams included in this study.