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.

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.