Draft Day

It is upon us... One of the most important days in football (College & Pros) since it allows everyone to gauge the predicted talent produced and received by ones respective teams.

The 2010 Draft seems to entertain as much if not more attention than past NFL events Radio City Music Hall. Being started on a Thursday Prime Time, the hopes are it will bring in fans. Which it will be more accommodating than a Saturday afternoon. Nice try but all the whining and complaining by the NBA & NHL will have no effect on future plans. The NFL and College Football are simply > NHL + NBA. Tough Mark Cuban, the NFL's day will not come. The NBA 1st round playoffs simply don't hold a candle to this multi-day event.

Enough, on to the important matter...

How will the SEC play in the 2010 Daft? In 5 years we will be able to tell.

ESPN draft expert Todd McShay has six SEC players going in the first round in his latest mock draft.

Some have former Tennessee teammates Eric Berry and Dan Williams both going in the top 10 picks. According to McShay, he Berry going No. 7 overall to the Cleveland Browns and Williams No. 9 overall to the Buffalo Bills. Yet the likelihood of this actually playing out is slim. Berry has solidified himself as a top-10 no doubt but I'd expect "Big Dan" to fall into the 20's possibly with the Ravens. No matter how you look at it Dan has positioned himself very nicely and is poised to be an "aircraft carrier" where ever he may land.



If that happen though, Berry and Williams would become the first SEC defensive teammates to go in the top 10 picks of the same draft since Alabama defensive ends John Copeland and Eric Curry went Nos. 5 and 6 in the 1993 draft.

It may be a surprise to some but, within the last decade Georgia and Tennessee have led the SEC with first-rounders (10 each).

Even more surprising to outsiders with numbers like this you'd expect conference dominance but, the Vols failed to win any while Georgia won two.

Every SEC team last decade produced at least one first-rounder with the exception of Mississippi State, which hasn't had a player drafted in the first round since defensive back Walt Harris went No. 13 overall and receiver Eric Moulds No. 24 overall in the 1996 draft.

LSU produced nine first-rounders last decade, and seven of those came in the past four years. Alabama produced just three first-rounders during the decade, and offensive tackle Andre Smith last year broke an eight-year drought for the Crimson Tide of not having a first-round selection.

Tennessee -- 10
Georgia -- 10
Florida -- 9
LSU -- 9
Arkansas -- 6
Auburn -- 6
Ole Miss -- 6
South Carolina -- 4
Alabama -- 3
Vanderbilt -- 2
Kentucky -- 1