Only two HBCU football players taken in the NFL draft

[MightyDog]

I don't disagree. I think that we have some very talented players in our league. I never disputed that fact. And in many years past there were some players whom I felt were overlooked. But this just wasn't one of those years in my opinion....

Suge, the big lineman from Alcorn will definite make a NFL Team. I will be willing to bet he will be going as a free agent. He is one of many that will make it. We have talent in the SWAC.

 

[JROCK]

I refused to believe that all the players who were drafted are better than all the players playing football in the SWAC. I didn't see all those who got drafted play, but I will always believe we have some great players who should have been drafted. Kent can play with the best of the best.

I-AA NFL Draftees

http://www.i-aa.org/

Round Pick # Overall Team Athlete Pos. School
2004 Draft 15 student-athletes
3 7 70 Green Bay Joey Thomas CB Montana State
3 10 73 Detroit Keith Smith CB McNeese State
4 30 126 Kansas City Jared Allen DE Idaho State
5 18 150 Jacksonville Chris Thompson CB Nicholls State
6 1 166 Oakland Shawn Johnson DE Delaware
6 13 178 NY Jets Marko Cavka OT Sacramento State
6 16 181 Tampa Bay Nate Lawrie TE Yale
6 20 185 Philadelphia Andrew Hall QB Delaware
6 34 199 Baltimore Clarence Moore WR Northern Arizona
7 6 207 Buffalo Dylan McFarland OT Montana
7 27 228 Tampa Bay Casey Cramer TE Dartmouth
7 37 238 St. Louis Larry Turner OG Eastern Kentucky
7 38 239 Tennessee Eugene Amano C SE Missouri State
7 51 252 Tampa Bay Lenny Williams CB Southern
7 52 253 NY Giants Isaac Hilton DE Hampton

2000 was the best of the last 5 years for HBCU's compared to our 1-AA colleagues

2000 Draft 28 student-athletes
1 21 21 Kansas City Sylvester Morris WR Jackson State
1 23 23 Carolina Rashard Anderson CB Jackson State
2 29 60 Jacksonville Brad Meester C Northern Iowa
3 3 65 San Francisco Giovanni Carmazzi QB Hofstra
3 23 85 Kansas City Greg Wesley SS Arkansas-Pine Bluff
4 3 97 Cincinnati Curtis Keaton RB James Madison
4 6 100 Atlanta Michael Thompson OT Tennessee State
4 14 108 San Francisco John Keith SS Furman
4 25 119 Seattle Isaiah Kacyvenski LB Harvard
4 27 121 Buffalo Avion Black WR Tennessee State
4 35 129 Washington Michael Moore G Troy State
5 18 147 Carolina Gillis Wilson DE Southern University
5 22 151 Green Bay Joey Jamison WR Texas Southern
5 25 154 Denver Muneer Moore WR Richmond
5 30 159 Jacksonville Kiwaukee Thomas CB Georgia Southern
6 1 167 Miami Ernest Grant DT Arkansas-Pine Bluff
6 6 172 Atlanta Mareno Philyaw WR Troy State
6 17 183 Cleveland Spergon Wynn QB Southwest Texas State
6 39 205 San Diego JaJuan Seider QB Florida A&M
7 2 208 Kansas City Desmond Kitchings WR Furman
7 3 209 Cleveland Eric Chandler DE Jackson State
7 4 210 Cincinnati Brad St. Louis TE SW Missouri State
7 5 211 Atlanta Darrick Vaughn CB Southwest Texas State
7 16 222 San Diego Jason Thomas G Hampton
7 25 231 Oakland Clifton Black CB Southwest Texas State
7 40 246 Denver Leroy Fields WR Jackson State
7 42 248 Minnesota Lewis Kelly OT South Carolina State
7 48 254 Chicago Michael Green SS Northwestern State