How the 2010 NFL Draft will transform the Big Ten - Part II
The deadline for declaring for the 2010 NFL Draft was Friday, January 15. As a follow up to an earlier diary, "How the 2010 NFL Draft will transform the Big Ten", I wanted to review the players who actually left college and how the Big Ten will change as a result.
Many prognosticators suggested that this year's draft would set a record for the most juniors to leave early. Some said that as many as 75 underclassmen would put their names in for draft consideration. It was a record-tying year for early entrants, but not the mass exodus that many predicted. 53 underclassmen declared that they would be available for draft consideration by NFL teams; tying the previous high set in 2008 and exceeding the 46 that declared last year.
As I discussed in my earlier diary, the reasons this draft inspired so many players to consider early entry were all related to the expiring labor agreement between NFL players and owners, and the chances of a lockout in 2011. Changes in the new contract might limit both player rookie earnings and prospects for free agency, so many agents were encouraging players to take a shot now.
It sounds like the NFL went out of their way to discourage underclassmen from leaving early.
Roger Goodell's assertion that there won't be any changes to the rookie system until at after 2011 is probably true according to the Players Association. . . since they think that season will be locked out.
So what effect will early entry have on college football? Here's a list of players that have declared (I included the Scout star ranking when they left high school or junior college):
You'll notice that the list is made up of mostly 4 and 5 star players with an abundance of WRs and DEs. Overall it's hard to say that the departures of these players will have a major impact on next season in college football.
The Big Ten only ended up losing six players. So what kind of impact will departing players (including seniors) have on the Big Ten?
* indicates non-starting contributor
** indicates early entrant
Source: www.rivals.com, www.foxsports.com, www.scout.com
Since the conference didn't lose as many players as my original diary suggested, the turnover won't have the repercussions I had hoped. Unfortunately many of the stars decided to return to school, including most of the Ohio State defense and offensive stars like John Clay from Wisconsin and Evan Royster from Penn State.
On the plus side the Big Ten should once again be strong out of conference, but it will make for a challenging season for our Wolverines.
Go Blue!!
Many prognosticators suggested that this year's draft would set a record for the most juniors to leave early. Some said that as many as 75 underclassmen would put their names in for draft consideration. It was a record-tying year for early entrants, but not the mass exodus that many predicted. 53 underclassmen declared that they would be available for draft consideration by NFL teams; tying the previous high set in 2008 and exceeding the 46 that declared last year.
As I discussed in my earlier diary, the reasons this draft inspired so many players to consider early entry were all related to the expiring labor agreement between NFL players and owners, and the chances of a lockout in 2011. Changes in the new contract might limit both player rookie earnings and prospects for free agency, so many agents were encouraging players to take a shot now.
It sounds like the NFL went out of their way to discourage underclassmen from leaving early.
"There will be no change in our current [rookie pool] system, at least until 2011," Goodell told ESPN on Saturday. "I've explained that to some college head coaches, athletic directors and league commissioners. Any underclassman who is hearing differently is probably hearing it from an agent or from another source who is misinformed." Source - ESPN
Players who submitted their paperwork and did not receive a grade within the first three rounds, were not informed of an official grade. Instead, they were told that they did not receive a grade within the first three rounds. As far as we know, in past years, players were told what round they were projected to get drafted in by the NFL Advisory Committee, even if it was a grade later than round three. Source - NFL Draft Bible
Roger Goodell's assertion that there won't be any changes to the rookie system until at after 2011 is probably true according to the Players Association. . . since they think that season will be locked out.
Union sources believe the likelihood of a rookie hard cap being in place by 2011 is remote because, as Smith inferred again, management is preparing for a lockout that season. Source - ESPN
So what effect will early entry have on college football? Here's a list of players that have declared (I included the Scout star ranking when they left high school or junior college):
POS | Player | Team | Status | Rank |
---|---|---|---|---|
QB | Jimmy Clausen | Notre Dame | Declared | 5 star |
QB | Jevan Snead | Mississippi | Declared | 4 star |
QB | Sam Bradford | Oklahoma | Declared | 4 star |
RB | Joe McKnight | Southern California | Declared | 5 star |
RB | Jonathan Dwyer | Georgia Tech | Declared | 4 star |
RB | Jahvid Best | California | Declared | 4 star |
RB | Toby Gerhart | Stanford | Declared | 3 star |
RB | Shawnbrey McNeil | SMU | Declared | 3 star |
RB | Darius Marshall | Marshall | Declared | 2 star |
WR | Arrelious Benn | Illinois | Declared | 5 star |
WR | Chris Bell | Norfolk State | Declared | 5 star |
WR | Dez Bryant | Oklahoma State | Declared | 4 star |
WR | Damian Williams | Southern California | Declared | 4 star |
WR | Golden Tate | Notre Dame | Declared | 4 star |
WR | Demaryius Thomas | Georgia Tech | Declared | 3 star |
WR | Dezmon Briscoe | Kansas | Declared | 2 star |
WR | Mico McSwain | North Alabama | Declared | 2 star |
WR | Mike Williams | Syracuse | Declared | 2 star |
WR | Carlton Mitchell | USF | Declared | 2 star |
WR | Antonio Brown | Central Michigan | Declared | 1 star |
TE | Aaron Hernandez | Florida | Declared | 5 star |
TE | Jermaine Gresham | Oklahoma | Declared | 4 star |
TE | Rob Gronkowski | Arizona | Declared | 4 star |
OT | Anthony Davis | Rutgers | Declared | 5 star |
OT | Brian Bulaga | Iowa | Declared | 4 star |
OT | Bruce Campbell | Maryland | Declared | 4 star |
OL | Maurkice Pouncey | Florida | Declared | 4 star |
DE | Jason Pierre-Paul | South Florida | Declared | 5 star JC |
DE | Carlos Dunlap | Florida | Declared | 5 star |
DE | Everson Griffen | Southern California | Declared | 5 star |
DE | Clifton Geathers | South Carolina | Declared | 4 star |
DE | Thaddeus Gibson | Ohio State | Declared | 4 star |
DE | Derrick Morgan | Georgia Tech | Declared | 4 star |
DE | Kevin Basped | Nevada | Declared | 2 star |
DT | Gerald McCoy | Oklahoma | Declared | 5 star |
DT | Brian Price | UCLA | Declared | 5 star |
DT | Abe Koroma | Western Illinois | Declared | 3 star |
ILB | Rolando McClain | Alabama | Declared | 4 star |
OLB | Jason Worilds | Virginia Tech | Declared | 4 star |
OLB | Rennie Curran | Georgia | Declared | 4 star |
OLB | Navorro Bowman | Penn State | Declared | 4 star |
S | Chad Jones | LSU | Declared | 5 star |
S | Eric Berry | Tennessee | Declared | 5 star |
S | Major Wright | Florida | Declared | 5 star |
S | Earl Thomas | Texas | Declared | 4 star |
S | Reshad Jones | Georgia | Declared | 4 star |
S | Morgan Burnett | Georgia Tech | Declared | 4 star |
CB | Donovan Warren | Michigan | Declared | 5 star |
CB | Joe Haden | Florida | Declared | 4 star |
CB | Dominique Franks | Oklahoma | Declared | 4 star |
CB | Kareem Jackson | Alabama | Declared | 3 star |
CB | Amari Spievey | Iowa | Declared | 2 star |
You'll notice that the list is made up of mostly 4 and 5 star players with an abundance of WRs and DEs. Overall it's hard to say that the departures of these players will have a major impact on next season in college football.
The Big Ten only ended up losing six players. So what kind of impact will departing players (including seniors) have on the Big Ten?
Illinois | Indiana | Iowa | Michigan | |
---|---|---|---|---|
QB | Juice Williams | |||
RB | Daniel Dufrene* | Demetrius McCray* | Brandon Minor | |
RB | Bryan Payton* | Carlos Brown* | ||
WR | Arrelious Benn** | Trey Stross | Greg Matthews | |
WR | Chris Duvalt | LaTerryal Savoy* | ||
WR | Jarred Fayson | |||
TE | Michael Hoomanawanui | Troy Wagner | Tony Moeaki | |
TE | Brian Zematis | |||
OT | Rodger Saffold | Kyle Calloway | Mark Ortmann | |
OT | Bryan Bulaga** | |||
OT | ||||
OT | ||||
OG | Jon Asamoah | Pete Saxon | Andy Kuempel* | David Moosman |
OG | Mike Reiter* | Dace Richardson | ||
OG | Dan Doering* | |||
C | Eric Block | Rafael Eubanks | ||
C | ||||
DE | Antonio James | Greg Middleton | Chad Geary* | Brandon Graham |
DE | Doug Pilcher | Jammie Kirlew | Adam Patterson* | |
DE | ||||
DT | Rahkeem Smith* | Travis Meade* | ||
DT | Sirod Williams | |||
DT | ||||
LB | Will Patterson | A.J. Edds | ||
LB | Justin Carrington* | Pat Angerer | ||
LB | Matt Mayberry | |||
LB | ||||
CB | Dere Hicks | Amari Spievey** | Donovan Warren** | |
CB | ||||
CB | ||||
S | Donsay Hardeman | Austin Thomas | Steve Brown | |
S | Collin Taylor* | |||
S | Nick Polk | |||
S | Matt Kurz* | |||
K | Jason Olesnavage | |||
P | Anthony Santella | Zolton Mesko | ||
Total | 15 | 16 | 13 | 12 |
Michigan State | Minnesota | Northwestern | Ohio State | |
QB | Mike Kafka | |||
RB | ||||
RB | ||||
WR | Blair White | Ben Kuznia* | Andrew Brewer | Ray Small* |
WR | Kevin Frymire | |||
WR | ||||
TE | Nick Tow-Arnett | Jake Ballard | ||
TE | ||||
OT | Rocco Cironi | Matt Stommes* | Kurt Mattes* | Jim Cordle |
OT | Mike Schmeding* | |||
OT | ||||
OT | ||||
OG | Brendon Moss | Desmond Taylor* | ||
OG | ||||
OG | ||||
C | Joel Nitchman | Andrew Moses* | ||
C | John Stipek* | |||
DE | Trevor Anderson | Cedric McKinley | Corey Wootton | Thaddeus Gibson** |
DE | Colin Neely | Barrett Moen | Lawrence Wilson* | |
DE | Derrick Onwuachi* | |||
DT | Michael Jordan* | Eric Small | Adam Hahn | Todd Denlinger |
DT | Garrett Brown | Marshall Thomas* | Doug Worthington | |
DT | Rob Rose | |||
LB | Brandon Denson | Simoni Lawrence | Austin Spitler | |
LB | | Rex Sharpe* | ||
LB | Adam Decker* | Nate Triplett | ||
LB | Lee Campbell | |||
CB | Jeremy Ware | Traye Simmons | Sherrick McManis | Andre Amos* |
CB | Ross Weaver* | Marcus Sherels | ||
CB | ||||
S | K. Davis-Clark* | Brad Phillips | Kurt Coleman | |
S | Ashton Henderson* | Brendan Smith | Anderson Russell | |
S | Dan Fortener | |||
S | ||||
K | Brett Swenson | |||
P | Blake Haudan | Jon Thoma | ||
Total | 17 | 15 | 11 | 14 |
Penn State | Purdue | Wisconsin | ||
QB | Daryll Clark | Joey Elliott | ||
RB | Jaycen Taylor* | |||
RB | Garrett Graham | |||
WR | Patrick Mauti* | Royce Adams* | ||
WR | Aaron Valentin | |||
WR | ||||
TE | Mickey Shuler | Mickey Turner | ||
TE | Andrew Quarless* | |||
OT | Dennis Landolt | Zach Jones | ||
OT | Ako Poti* | |||
OT | Nerraw McCormack* | |||
OT | ||||
OG | Zach Reckman | |||
OG | ||||
OG | ||||
C | Doug Klopacz* | Jared Zwilling | ||
C | ||||
DE | Jerome Hayes | Keyon Brown* | O'Brien Schofield | |
DE | Tom Golarz* | |||
DE | ||||
DT | Jared Odrick | Mike Neal | Daniel Moore | |
DT | Dan Cascone* | |||
DT | Jeff Stehle | |||
LB | Sean Lee | Jason Werner | Jaevery McFadden | |
LB | Navorro Bowman** | |||
LB | Josh Hull | |||
LB | ||||
CB | Knowledge Timmons | Brandon King | ||
CB | A.J. Wallace* | David Pender | ||
CB | S. McCullough* | |||
S | Torri Williams | Chris Maragos | ||
S | Dwight Mclean | |||
S | ||||
S | ||||
K | ||||
P | Jeremy Boone | Chris Summers | ||
Total | 17 | 15 | 8 |
* indicates non-starting contributor
** indicates early entrant
Source: www.rivals.com, www.foxsports.com, www.scout.com
Since the conference didn't lose as many players as my original diary suggested, the turnover won't have the repercussions I had hoped. Unfortunately many of the stars decided to return to school, including most of the Ohio State defense and offensive stars like John Clay from Wisconsin and Evan Royster from Penn State.
On the plus side the Big Ten should once again be strong out of conference, but it will make for a challenging season for our Wolverines.
Go Blue!!
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