Ranking conferences by total number of first round 2022 NFL draft picks

A ranking of conferences and how many players were selected in the first round of the 2022 #NFLdraft Thursday night.

The first round of the 2022 NFL draft is officially in the books. It started and ended with a Georgia player being taken off the board, and that wasn’t the only SEC player that heard their name called on the first day of all the hoopla.

The conference that loves to dole out sweet tea and grits dominated again, but there was also a pretty good showing by the Big Ten in the first round of the draft. But what other conferences had at least one player selected on Thursday night? How do all the leagues stack up with one another?

Here’s a look at the number of selections in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft by conference starting from the least amount of players selected, up to the top.