The lead-up to the NFL draft is a fun time to be a college sports fan, particularly a fan of a blue blood program like the University of Oklahoma. Sooners fans have seen many of their favorite players get drafted into the NFL over the past five years. Few programs get more players to the NFL than the Sooners have in recent years.
College Football News recently ranked all 130 FBS program’s draft classes based on the number of players selected in the draft and the Oklahoma Sooners came in at No. 10.
OU boasts five first-round picks since 2017 in [autotag]Baker Mayfield[/autotag], [autotag]Kyler Murray[/autotag], [autotag]Marquise Brown[/autotag], [autotag]CeeDee Lamb[/autotag], and [autotag]Kenneth Murray[/autotag]. 25 Sooners have been drafted in the last five years to give OU this position on the list.
In terms of where these players rank at their position in the NFL, [autotag]Creed Humphrey[/autotag] is the best player on this list. The big fella was named to Pro Football Focus’ All-Pro First team as a rookie. Creed allowed one sack in the entirety of his rookie season.
One player to keep an eye on to make a big leap next season would be Jalen Hurts. the Philadelphia Eagles have a lot of resources to put some more pieces around him.
As [autotag]Brent Venables[/autotag] continues to mold the program into his vision, expect more defensive players to be selected in the first round of the NFL draft.
Check out this list of every Oklahoma player selected in the NFL draft and which round they were taken in.
As for who came out ahead of Oklahoma, it’s about who you would expect. Alabama had a whopping 51 players drafted since 2017 for more than double of OU’s total. Oklahoma fell just short of Notre Dame, Miami, and Clemson who all had 27 players drafted for seventh place.
Sooners Wire recently talked about how draft analyst Todd McShay felt about a few 2022 Oklahoma draft prospects.
Oklahoma has a chance to make up some ground this draft cycle with 12 players declared. There’s a good chance they could have as many as eight players taken, which would give them a good shot to move up in next year’s rankings.
Below is the top 25 teams with the most selections in the last five years. The SEC leads the way with seven teams in the top 25. Here’s how many teams show up from each of the Power Five conferences over the last five years. Oklahoma is the only Big 12 school inside the top 25. Texas sits just outside the top 25 at No. 26.
- SEC: 7
- ACC: 6
- Pac-12: 5
- Big 10: 5
- Big 12: 1
- Independents: 1
Scroll below to take a look at the top 25 schools with the most draft selections over the last five years according to College Football News.