Notre Dame’s First Round Draft Picks Since 2000

Since the year 2000 Notre Dame has had 11 players taken in the first round of the NFL Draft and they weren’t all recruited to Notre Dame by him but all but two of those players played under Brian Kelly. 

It’s insane to see the talent-level improve as this list goes on.  It makes you wonder yet again what the heck was actually happening during the Davie, Willingham and some of the Weis years.

Jeff Faine, Center – 21st overall to Cleveland Browns, 2003

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Jeff Faine was selected by the Cleveland Browns towards the end of the first round in 2003.  Faine was the first Notre Dame player to be selected in the first round of the draft since 1999 when the New York Giants selected guard Luke Petitgout 19th overall.

Faine would play ten seasons in the NFL for the Browns, New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Cincinnati Bengals appearing in a pair of playoff games along the way and being selected as an alternate to the Pro Bowl in 2007.

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