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Breakdown of which colleges produce the most NFL talent

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9 months ago

I stumbled upon this NFL.com chart and found it to be interesting enough to share. Even given our misfortune as of late, we still have put quiet a few guys into the league.
If the attached picture is too small for you, here's the link:
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d828a004e/article/which-college-football-program-produces-most-nfl-talent

This post was edited by silver fox on 8/26/2012 at 7:20 PM
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9 months ago

Wow, that is an interesting chart. Surprised to see the Vols still so high after a couple of bad years for the NFL draft. However, we should beat our 5+ per year in the years to come!
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9 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Pretty impressive. We are right up there in the upper echelon. Kind of odd that Miami was left off the standings. What's up with that?
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9 months ago

I would think that a chart like this would be a helluva recruiting tool as well.
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9 months ago

Where are the Miami Hurricanes on that list?
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9 months ago

LazhilUT said...
Where are the Miami Hurricanes on that list?

I was about to post this. Not sure how accurate the list is when they don't include the U.
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9 months ago

Funny you mention Miami, I went to the link at the bottom of the graphic...
http://draftmetrics.com/draft.asp?f=1
...and Miami was on that list. They rank No. 1 in NFL quarters from '92-'11 and 2001-'11. We still rank relatively respectably in the past 10 and 5 year charts as well. I find these spreadsheets fascinating.

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http://draftmetrics.com/files/Colleges2012.pdf
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