Drafted & UDFA Signings

[WoodburyTim]

There are many good undrafted players across the college landscape. UDFA is a chance for our guys to taste their pro football dreams. Many will not make the team roster.

There are other football leagues they can try. Most of them will use their college degrees to get a decent job. Max Brosmer may delay going to medical school, but that is where he will end up.

Hey I root for all the Gophers to make a pro dream come true.

 

[mcrow47]

It's somewhat close, but I would say that the Gophers have sent more talent to the NFL in the last 5 drafts.

Since 2021:
Badgers

• Total Players Selected: 15
• Average Selection: 152
  • This could unfairly punish you for getting two guys drafted at the end of the 7th round. For example, a 1st round pick (20) and two 7th round picks (240, 241) would have a way higher average than just a 3rd round pick.
  • So I also just created a crude POINT system, you get 1 point for a 7th round pick and 7 points for a 1st round pick.
• Total Points: 49
• 1st & 2nd Round Selections: 2nd round (Joe Tippmann); 2nd round pick (Keeanu Benton)

Gophers

• Total Players Selected: 13
• Average Selection: 105
• Total Points: 57 (same crude math as above)
• 1st & Second Round Selections: 1st round (Rashad Bateman); 2nd round (Boye Mafe); 2nd round (JMS); 2nd round (Tyler Nubin); 2nd round (Aireontae Ersery).

Gophers draft picks during that time:

Games played: 307
Games Started: 160
Career tackles: 250
Sacks : 20.5
INT: 2
Rec: 147
TD: 15

Wisconsin:

GP: 379
GS: 145
Tackles: 373
Sacks: 17.5
INT: 1
Rec: 169
TD: 10

Looks like it's pretty even. Gophers have more starts, Wisconsin more games played. The mix of positions drafted for each seems proportional to the differences in stats.

 

[WoodburyTim]

I didn't think the pre-draft musings were that far out of line on the board this year. There's always someone who thinks the whole team is going to get drafted. I'd have to look back on the posts, but most seemed to think 3 or 4 Gophers would get drafted. The only surprises to me were Joyner not getting drafted and Walley going a round before I thought he would. I wasn't sold on Lindenberg's chances, but figured he'd end up getting picked in the late rounds.

Yeah, I don’t know. I thought it was kind of like every other year on here. There was one post I remember where I said 3 draftees was realistic. Wasn’t well received. And that is fine. Passion is what this board is about, not realism.

I’ve always said, Gopherhole is the Gopher fan subset comparable to Packer fans, nobody is more passionate, but also not the most knowledgeable .