SEC continues NFL Draft dominance with most players selected in 2024 Draft
The SEC has dominated the NFL Draft for almost 2 full decades, and the conference produced the most picks for another year in 2024.
Saturday evening, the 2024 NFL Draft concluded with Day 3 featuring Rounds 4-7. Already, the SEC had produced the most 1st-round draft picks of any conference, and the SEC even claimed the Mr. Irrelevant title with Alabama’s Jaylen Key becoming the final pick of the draft.
In terms of total production, it was the SEC by a landslide with the conference producing 59 total picks according to SportSource Analytics. No other conference produced 45+ picks in the draft.
Remarkably, the Pac-12 produced the second-most picks with 43 while it was the Big Ten coming in third with 42. The ACC produced 41 picks and the Big 12 produced 31 picks.
2024 #NFLDraft Picks by #CFB Conference
——————–#SEC – 59#Pac12 – 43 ??#B1G – 42#ACC – 41#Big12 – 31#Ind – 8#SBC – 6#AAC – 5#CUSA – 3#MWC – 2#MAC – 2— SportSource Analytics (@SportSourceA) April 27, 2024
Of course, those numbers will look different next season, but the SEC’s stranglehold on the top spot is unlikely to change. A key group of the Big 12’s total number came from Texas and Oklahoma, a pair of programs bound for the SEC this fall. As for the Pac-12, a number of their draft picks came from the Big Ten-bound quartet of USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington.
It will be interesting to see how these numbers breakdown next year, but it’s another year of the SEC on top. This is the 18th straight year that the SEC has produced the most picks from a single conference.
FOR THE 18TH STRAIGHT YEAR THE @SEC HAS THE MOST PICKS IN THE NFL DRAFT‼️ pic.twitter.com/sz69VTMCGB
— SEC Network (@SECNetwork) April 27, 2024
The Big12 has become a pretty good group of 5 conference. Especially with the loss of Texas and Oklahoma.
We should trade them the Vols for TCU.
You’ll be wishing that after TN starts beating UGA again. lol And if we did go to any other conference, it would only mean we’ll make the top 5 or 10 playoff spots yearly while UGA, well, your not beating 3 or 4 top ten teams in a regular season. You never have and make any playoffs.. lol
Move TN out and TCU in would be great! I hate the puke orange
I’m sure you will beat Georgia at some point. I mean you get Bama every 15 years or so LOL. But you are a mid tier program now so it will never be with any consistency. I mean you can’t even get over the Florida hump with any consistency and they are at a real low point.