Monday, April 30, 2007

Draft Day Detritus | by Jay

Here's the releases from UND.com on all the drafted and (undrafted) destinations:

  • Quinn to Cleveland (1st, 22)
  • Abiamiri to Philly (2nd, 57)
  • Harris to Denver (3rd, 70)
  • Landri to Jacksonville (5th, 166)
  • Richardson to New England (6th, 202)
  • Santucci to Cincy (7th, 230)
  • Ndukwe to Cincy (7th, 253)
Four Five Undrafted Free Agents who signed with teams:
  • Freeman & Leitko to Baltimore
  • McKnight to New Orleans
  • Walker & Frome to Chicago
Biggest surprise? Apart from Brady dropping to 22, it's probably Ndukwe getting drafted instead of McKnight or Walker. But if you view Ndukwe as a pretty good special teams guy, and the other two as mere projects at a starting position, it sort of makes sense.

Also: two pretty good reads on how Quinn ended up with the Browns, from USA Today and SI.com.

Update: reader Andrew sends us this link to a Dolphin Fan's draft day timeline. Hysterical.

Update part deux: Rakes has a solid roundup of all the Irish pro hopefuls.

Update, fin: I was curious how 7 picks for ND stacked up against other schools. It turns out the Irish tied for third-most. Here are all the teams that placed 5 or more players in the draft, with their average overall selection spot in the final column:
School
No. Picks
Avg Spot
Florida
Ohio State
Texas
Michigan
Notre Dame
Tennessee
Louisiana State
Miami
Florida State
Penn State
Southern Cal
Auburn
Clemson
Hawaii
9
8
7
7
7
6
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
144
116
81
101
143
73
55
65
75
75
102
126
127
147