NFL Draft Notes for (Draft)'niks
- WHAT
- 68th Annual NFL Player Selection Meeting (Draft?)
WHEN
- Noon (ET), Saturday, April 26 - Rounds 1-3;
11 AM (ET), Sunday, April 27 - Rounds 4-7
WHERE - The Theater at Madison Square Garden, New York City
Entire Draft televised by ESPN
HOW
32 Teams, 262 Selections
Round One - 15 minutes each team
Round Two - 10 minutes each team
Round Three - 5 minutes each team
TELL IT LIKE IT IS - A 12-part Draft diary from Tuskegee's Drayton Florence
in on-line at www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/6319822
KRYPTONITE - Bethune-Cookman's Rashean Mathis broke
Princeton's Dean Cain's I-AA single- season mark of 12 interceptions
set in 1987 with 14 in 2002. Cain played 'The Man of Steel' on
the Superman TV show.
FIRST DROUGHT - There has not been a black college player taken in the
first round since the 2000 Draft when Jackson State WR
Sylvester Morris and DB Rashard Anderson were taken by Kansas
City and Carolina respectively.
LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME - An all-time low of only four black college players went
off the boards in the 2001 Draft followed by just five last year.
BACKFIELD IN MOTION - Defensive backs comprised four of the five black
college picks in the last year's Draft. All five were defensive players.
FACT - A 17-year run of at least one black college player being selected in the first three rounds ended in 2001 when Grambling WR Scotty Anderson was the first to go off in the fourth round to Detroit.
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