Collegefootballfan.com post-draft notes
Further analysis of the 2018 draft lead us to wrap up the pro shopping-spree with our Collegefootballfan.com post-draft notes before we head into our preseason college analysis. Our kickoff for the 2018 season starts exactly four months from tonight when we open up our 40th season loading up with weekly college football endeavors starting at Orono, Maine for our first stop there ever. We’ll watch the Maine Black Bears tussle at home against the New Hampshire Wildcats in a traditional FCS clash between the two Colonial Athletic Association foes. Stay tuned.
Oklahoma’s QB Baker Mayfield (5) led the Sooners in the 2015 CFP semi-final his sophomore season when we saw them fall to Clemson. We say that they could have gotten Mayfield or comparable QB talent had they selected another position to start, but this was Cleveland picking first as usual.
No. 2 pick Saquon Barkley of Penn State was wide open again as he was here and the NY Giants made a beautiful pick up.
QB Sam Darnold of USC (14) fell surprisingly to the NY Jets at No. 3. If anything, we thought Cleveland would have gone with Darnold to start and that the Jets would have grabbed Mayfield here.
No. 94 DT Jullian Taylor of Temple will team up with the San Francisco 49ers.
TE Dalton Schultz of Stanford (9) went No. 137 to the Cowboys.
Louisville OT Geron Christian (74) opened up holes for Lamar Jackson against Wake forest and others to move on up to the Redskins.
Wake’s Duke Ejiofor (53) counter-attacked the Louisville line that day as Jackson ran amuck and still got picked No. 177 by the Texans.
S Justin Reid (8) of Stanford went as No. 68 to the Texans to join brother Erica of the 49ers at the next level.
More Collegefootballfan.com post-draft notes to come.
We watched five of the top six picks perform the past three years, and we have seen 19 of the 32 first rounders play during their collegiate careers.