Check out each SEC selection

2 days ago
SEC Staff

Photo: AP Photo/Jeff Roberson

  • For the 12th time in the last 13 years, the SEC once again tied or led the nation in First Round NFL Draft selections, as the league produced nine opening-round draft picks.
  • During the last 19 NFL Drafts, the SEC has a nation-leading 168 players taken in the opening round, an average of nearly nine per season.
  • Bryce Young is the third No. 1 overall pick from the SEC in the last four NFL Drafts and fifth in the last 10 years.
  • This is the second consecutive year that two of the first three selections in the NFL Draft are from the SEC.
  • This is the second time in the last four NFL Drafts that two SEC quarterbacks were selected in the Top 5.
  • For the third time in the last four NFL Drafts, at least half of the Top 10 selections were from the SEC.
  • The SEC had eight of the first 16 selections of the 2023 NFL Draft.
  • The SEC now has 144 First Round NFL Draft selections since 2010.
  • Since 2010, the SEC has over double (144) the total amount of First Round selections than the next closest conference (Big Ten – 73).
  • Five different SEC teams (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi State, Tennessee) had a player taken in the First Round of the 2023 NFL Draft.
  • The SEC now has 55 Top-10 picks since 2009 and 61 since 2007.
  • Only four schools nationally have a Top-16 pick in each of the last two NFL Drafts – three of those schools are from the SEC (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi State).
  • Since 2009, Top 10 NFL picks by league: SEC (55); Big 12 (26); ACC (25); Pac-12 (24); B1G (23), Notre Dame (4); AAC (3); MAC (3); BYU (2); Mountain West (1).
  • Alabama and Georgia led the SEC with three First Round selections in the 2023 NFL Draft. Georgia has now seen seven defensive players drafted in the first round the last two years.
  • Alabama has had a First-Round selection in each of the past 15 NFL Drafts, the longest streak in SEC and college football history, as well as the most First Round picks nationally since 2007 with 44.

2023 FIRST-ROUND SELECTIONS BY CONFERENCE

SEC: 9

B1G: 9

Big 12: 6

ACC: 4

Pac-12: 3

FIRST-ROUND SELECTIONS SINCE 2010

SEC: 144

Big Ten: 73

ACC: 68

Pac-12: 56

Big 12: 48

SEC FIRST ROUND SELECTIONS SINCE 2010

2023: 9

2022: 12

2021: 12

2020: 15

2019: 9

2018: 10

2017: 12

2016: 8

2015: 7

2014: 11

2013: 12

2012: 9

2011: 11

2010: 7

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