I think that Montana and North Dakota State had a player or two taken, but 99% of the talent moves to D1 to get paid before getting paid again.
Doesn’t sound like a William & Mary will get a player taken on a regular basis.
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I think that Montana and North Dakota State had a player or two taken, but 99% of the talent moves to D1 to get paid before getting paid again.
Doesn’t sound like a William & Mary will get a player taken on a regular basis.
North Dakota State had an offensive linemen taken in the 1st round. Like you pointed out. They are wrong.
Actually, they and Montana are still technically D1 (per the sources in that thread at least).
Still, small schools are getting left in the dust by NFL talent. We had the CB from Cal and WR from somewhere else who left us and got drafted in the third rounds I think. I don’t consider them Rebels since they left, but what could have been, so to speak.
Here is the list of picks by school, it looks like 9 were from FCS schools which to your point technically are D1AA. Ohio St (14) Georgia (13), Texas (12), Oregon (10), Ole Miss(8) had the most picks. Last year before they were left to die, Oregon State and Wazzu had 6 picks (3 picks each) this year combined they had 1.
2025 NFL Draft picks by college team, school: SEC, Big Ten dominate as Ohio State flirts with record
The power programs dominated the 2025 NFL Draft
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Not even close, the person that made that post is an idiot. There were a fair number of FCS programs and D1 lower level conference teams:
Lower level DI programs:
1st BSU
2nd Marshall
3rd Bowling Green, East Carolina, Tulane and Western Kentucky
4th Utah State
5th UTSA
6th Western Michigan, BSU, Navy, Uconn
7th unr, Central Michigan, Tulane, UNLV, Memphis
FCS programs:
1st ND State
3rd William and Mary
4th Central Arkansas
5th Alabama A&M, Sacramento State
6th Montana State, ND State
7th Montana
While they do need to end this ability to jump from school to school at any time, there will always be those players that go to smaller schools for the chance to play, and the NCAA can do nothing to stop the FCS programs from making deals to pay players, which will give them the ability just like UNLV to steal players that are on the bench and not being paid well because they are just backups at major programs.
The Rinaldi's Mom meltdown in the stands during the game at Allegiant a couple years ago will always be a highlight.
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