The 2020 NFL Draft wasn’t the glitz and glamor the NFL Drafts of 2021 and beyond are going to be for Oklahoma, but the Sooners were able to keep a streak alive.
Starting with the 2008 NFL Draft, Oklahoma’s football program has produced at least four NFL Draft selections a year for 12-straight years. That is now 13 as CeeDee Lamb, Kenneth Murray, Jalen Hurts and Neville Gallimore got their name called during the 2020 NFL Draft. No other college football program has been able to accomplish that.
The Sooners also now hold the longest streak of having a single draft pick every year in the Big 12 conference at 25 years after Kansas State did not have a player selected in this year’s NFL Draft.
Oklahoma has had to sweat it out to maintain the streak of four players selected the past 13 NFL Drafts in 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2016 when the third or fourth player or both was selected came in either the sixth or seventh round. During this timeframe, the Sooners have also had their most draft picks ever in the 2019 NFL Draft (eight).
This streak should continue in 2021 as Oklahoma is primed to start a new run of deep NFL Draft prospects. You can read about that here.
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