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The Big Ten endured arguably the worst NFL draft in its history last month, and its struggles to produce high first-round talent are well documented. The league hasn't had a top-10 pick since Michigan's Jake Long and Ohio State's Vernon Gholston w...

Word came out on Monday that new Tennessee Titans coach Mike Munchak was interested in new Texas defensive backs coach Jerry Gray as his defensive coordinator, and now, it looks like those talks have progressed. According to a report in The Tennes...

The NFL draft has come and gone, but who are the guys charged with replacing the league's top draft picks? Let's have a closer look at all of them. Oklahoma OL Lane Johnson, No. 4 overall: Oklahoma's depth along the offensive line last season ...

Florida State set a school record with 11 NFL draft picks over the weekend. That also happened to lead the entire nation, ranking ahead of national champion Alabama, LSU and yes, even Florida. So what does this say about the Noles as a program? Ar...

Just from an pro-talent perspective, Louisville has won with less. Way less. Consider, the Cardinals had zero picks in the recently concluded NFL draft -- the only BCS winning-team from the 2012 season without a selection. Of the 10 BCS teams, ...

Florida State followed up its big first round with a huge NFL draft weekend, as the Seminoles led every program in the nation with 11 total picks, setting a new school record. That's right. The Noles had more picks than national champion Alabama (...

The SEC's 63 NFL draft selections was a record for any league and blew away every other conference this year. The next closest was the ACC with 31 draft picks. In fact, the SEC's East produced 32 draft picks and the SEC West 31. The old record for...

Looking at the NFL draft, it's easy to see how some of the SEC teams had so much success in 2012. Alabama and LSU led the way for the conference with nine draft picks each and both registered double-digit wins last season. Alabama won 13 games and...

The gap between the Big Ten and the SEC not only is widening on the field, but on the NFL draft boards. While the SEC produced a record 63 picks in the 2013 NFL draft -- eight more than any conference in any draft in the modern era and 32 more tha...

The 2013 NFL draft was odd for the Pac-12. The Conference of Quarterbacks saw two of its own tumble precipitously, USC's Matt Barkley to the first pick of the fourth round, and Arizona's Matt Scott to undrafted. Meanwhile, four of its five first-r...

It's always revealing to go back and see where the top NFL draft picks from the SEC were ranked coming out of high school. Of the 12 SEC players drafted in Thursday's first round, nine were selected as ESPN 150 prospects. And of those nine, six we...

Geno Smith was ushered out of the green room with a couple of picks remaining in the first round of Thursday night's NFL draft, and in an off-camera interview with ESPN, said he would be leaving New York City and going home for Friday's second and th...

The Big East had one player taken in the NFL draft's first round Thursday night who never played a down in the Big East, while an ACC player who made his name in the Big East went a few picks later. Houston cornerback D.J. Hayden completed his rem...

It didn't take long for there to be some drama in the 2013 NFL draft. And former Oregon Duck Dion Jordan was right in the middle of it. Jordan, the hybrid defensive end/outside linebacker, was selected by the Miami Dolphins with the No. 3 pick ......

Just four days after trading away All-Pro cornerback and face of the franchise Darrelle Revis, the Jets used their first-round pick and the ninth overall selection in the NFL draft to grab Dee Milliner, a corner out of Alabama.

Time to take a look at how the ACC has fared in the NFL draft, by the numbers. Special thanks to Mike Finn in the league office for the information. The ACC holds NFL draft records for most first-round selections (12) and most overall picks (51),...