Fewest draftees since 2009 - Printable Version

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Fewest draftees since 2009 - donkey687 - 04-30-2017

Since 2009 when Stanford had no draft picks, Stanford has had at least 3 drafted and up to 6 drafted each year until 2017.Â The bad news for Stanford is they lost two very high level talents in CMAC and Thomas. The good news is that we haven't lost a lot of high end talent (by NFL standards) beyond those two.Â I am optimistic that 2017 season will be better despite those two big holes to fill especially if we get better QB and OL play which we should and our DL stays healthy as we can't afford injuries on DL.

Re: Fewest draftees since 2009 - Phogge - 04-30-2017

Fairly young team last season.

Re: Fewest draftees since 2009 - qwerty49 - 04-30-2017

(04-30-2017, 09:42 AM)Phogge link Wrote:Fairly young team last season.

And both Solly and CMac came out early.

But it does speak to a relative lack of talent in last year's senior class, or maybe just a recruiting gap 4-5 years ago.Â Our pool is so small, and it's hard to convert at a high rate every single time.Â

Re: Fewest draftees since 2009 - washingtonismoney - 04-30-2017

(04-30-2017, 10:56 AM)qwerty49 link Wrote:And both Solly and CMac came out early.

But it does speak to a relative lack of talent in last year's senior class, or maybe just a recruiting gap 4-5 years ago.Â Our pool is so small, and it's hard to convert at a high rate every single time.

Hard to have a lot of talent when:

2012 -- the cream of that crop had already left/had eligibility exhausted
2013 -- had only 12 players, one of whom (Oser) had to medically retire.

Barring some improbably good luck it was pretty much predestined that the 2017 draft would have a ton of players picked.

Re: Fewest draftees since 2009 - BostonCard - 05-01-2017

(04-30-2017, 03:05 PM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:[quote author=qwerty49 link=topic=16849.msg192561#msg192561 date=1493574970]

And both Solly and CMac came out early.

But it does speak to a relative lack of talent in last year's senior class, or maybe just a recruiting gap 4-5 years ago.Â Our pool is so small, and it's hard to convert at a high rate every single time.