Recent NFL draft for State

[Coach34]

Mullen got here in 2009 and began building a program. He had to play a ton of Freshmen that 1styear because of Crooms lack of recruiting- but started his "developmental program" in 2010. Lets look at the fruits of that building in the NFL draft 2013-2016:

2013:

Darius Slay- 3 star...2nd round
Jonathan Banks- 3 star...2nd round
Josh Boyd- 4 star...5th round

2014:

Gabe Jackson- 3 star...3rd round

2015:

Preston Smith- 3 star...2nd round
Benardrick McKinney...3-star...2nd round
Matthew Wells...3-star....6th round
Malcolm Johnson...3-star....6th round
Josh Robinson...3-star...6th round

2016:

Dak Prescott....3-star
DeRunnya Wilson...3-star
Chris Jones...5 star
Ry Brown....3-star
Benni Brown...4-star
Will Redmond...4-star
Taveze Calhoun...3 star

We also have some guys in R. Brown, Fred Ross, AJ, Nick James, and Fred Brown that have shots in the 2017 draft...

Our recruiting for the most part has been fine. We are producing NFL talent. We just simply arent producing on the OL. That is the glaring weakness- not putting any OL guys in the league.

Stop freaking out about recruiting- we will have 12 3-star draft picks drafted in the last 4 years come April. TWELVE. Worry about what we are taking on the OL and DL- the rest will work itself out.

[Dawg61]

I wonder how many years combined before Mullen would it take to add up to 12 players drafted? We are looking at having roughly twelve guys drafted in the last two years with Mullen.

[MetEdDawg]

I wonder how many years combined before Mullen would it take to add up to 12 players drafted? We are looking at having roughly twelve guys drafted in the last two years with Mullen.

Then look at next year. Fred Ross, Nick James, Richie Brown, and AJ Jefferson for sure will get drafted. Clayborn will have a shot too. So we are looking at potentially 4-5 more next year. That means in the last 3 years we could end up with between 16-18 draft picks. That's program changing and we've seen that hash out with our on field performance over the past 2 seasons.

[Taog Redloh]

I've long advocated for some type of innovation at the OL position. I'm not a coach, so I don't know what it is. But if we cannot consistently get top talent there, we need to be doing something differently. My theory is to recroot 5 per year and have at least 2 full strings of OL, most of which are upperclassmen. The problem is getting them. Obviously are current recrootin footprint (which I like) is not producing enough, although I think we could do better with the JUCOs in-state.

Looking at those numbers, pretty obvious why we won 8, 10 and 8 games in 2012, 2014 and 2015. And looking at the guys for next year, that tells us we should be decent in 2016.

[BrunswickDawg]

I wonder how many years combined before Mullen would it take to add up to 12 players drafted? We are looking at having roughly twelve guys drafted in the last two years with Mullen.

2001-2009 gives you 12 (checked the media guide)

[gtowndawg]

How stars translate to the NFL is a bit misleading to many people. There are a ton of 3 stars in the NFL because their are a ton of 3 stars that come out of high school every year (compared to just a few 4 and 5 stars).

I do agree our glaring weakness is OL. GLARING.

"the majority of the NFL is made up of three-star prospects. Why? Because there are so many more three stars ranked each year than four- and five-stars."

https://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1761388

[Jack Lambert]

OL is our problem. If you only got 3*s across the board you would be good. O-Lineman you can coach up if they have good size and good feet movement.

[NYDawg]

Good summary. It can only help that guys like Cox are tearing it up too.

[Dawg61]

2001-2009 gives you 12 (checked the media guide)

That's ridiculous. In two years Mullen has accomplished something that took 9 years before him. Very shitty math but Mullen is roughly 12 for 75 during this stretch of putting players in the NFL while it was 12 for 250 for the previous 9 seasons before Mullen.