74 Underclassman Declare for the NFL Draft

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There's 84 total early entries. Probably a quarter of these guys won't be drafted.
 
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I understand guys not wanting to risk injury, but it must stink for the ones who think they are gonna get drafted and don't.
 
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vols-1 said:
There's 84 total early entries. Probably a quarter of these guys won't be drafted.
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So the thread title needs to be changed to say, 84 right?

(Mods, I guess?)

Also, yeah, a sizable chunk of these guys won't.
 
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joevol33 said:
I understand guys not wanting to risk injury, but it must stink for the ones who think they are gonna get drafted and don't.
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There are some making a pure business decision.

Tyler Moore at Florida had everyone scratching their head. However, (a) he graduated (b) he wasn't going to improve his stock coming back another year (c) your body has only so many years you can take the physical demands of football.

So, the average fan sees a guy like this leave early and wonders why. He's not that good, he probably won't even be drafted. However, when you look at the things I already mentioned, it begins to make more sense.

Some of these guys also are not that interested anymore in improving their draft stock. Some of them know that they will never be a first round pick. What's the difference in being a 5th round pick or a 3rd round pick? I don't know, but for several athletes today, it's not enough. Making the team is the whole deal. You make the team and you are looking at a 6 figure salary minimum.

Edit: Just looked it up. Minimum salary in the NFL for a rookie in 2014 is $420,000
 
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TrueOrange said:
So the thread title needs to be changed to say, 84 right?

(Mods, I guess?)

Also, yeah, a sizable chunk of these guys won't.
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74 is still the official number..the other 10 had graduated and don't count as underclassman


The early-entry list includes 74 players, with an additional 10 who became eligible for the draft after notifying the NFL they had graduated.
 
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VolnJC said:
74 is still the official number..the other 10 had graduated and don't count as underclassman


The early-entry list includes 74 players, with an additional 10 who became eligible for the draft after notifying the NFL they had graduated.
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Right, but those 10 are players that were still juniors and still had their regular final year of playing eligibility. It's just that they had also already finished their undergraduate degrees (so the NFL categorized them with a slight distinction)... but they were still early-entries.

(Not like they were seniors that had a 5th year and just chose not to take it.)



Sorry, I wasn't trying to say you had miscounted

(maybe I should have worded it a bit differently when quoting the other post as well), but it paints a more accurate picture to say "84 early entries" rather than "74 underclassman" anyway... since there were 84 players from college teams that left early for the NFL/had remaining eligibility.
 
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