The majority of players selected in the 2022 NFL Draft will come from the Power 5 conferences. Those five include the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC, and Pac-12. However, there are usually about 20% of the prospects drafted come from schools from the Group of 5, FCS, or lower.
In 2019, 54 players were drafted from this level of play. In 2020, 58 prospects were taken. During the weird 2020 season where some schools played a short schedule, or some FCS schools played a spring schedule (or not at all), only 45 were drafted. It didn’t help that NFL scouts couldn’t get out on the road, there was no combine, and all meetings were done via Zoom and Skype.
I expect with some normalcy (somewhat) surrounding the 2021 season, expect the numbers of prospects selected to get back to the 2019 and 2020 levels in the 2022 NFL Draft.
2022 NFL DRAFT TOP-100 LEVEL PROSPECTS
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1 |
CB |
Cincinnati |
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2 |
OT |
Trevor Penning |
Northern Iowa |
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3 |
OT |
Central Michigan |
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4 |
WR |
South Alabama |
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5 |
WR |
Nevada |
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6 |
TE |
Nevada |
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7 |
QB |
Nevada |
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8 |
TE |
Colorado State |
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9 |
OT |
Braxton Jones |
Southern Utah |
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10 |
WR |
Reggie Roberson Jr. |
SMU |
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11 |
TE |
Coastal Carolina |
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12 |
RB |
BYU |
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13 |
LB |
Wyoming |
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14 |
EDGE |
Cincinnati |
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15 |
QB |
Cincinnati |
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16 |
CB |
Cincinnati |
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17 |
EDGE |
San Diego State |
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18 |
WR |
Boise State |
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19 |
CB |
Houston |
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20 |
P |
San Diego State |
2022 NFL DRAFT DAY THREE PROSPECTS (listed by position)
| QB | Grayson McCall | Coastal Carolina |
| QB | Malik Willis | Liberty |
| QB | Bailey Zappe | Western Kentucky |
| QB | Tanner Mordecai | SMU |
| QB | EJ Perry | Brown |
| QB | Jake Haener | Fresno State |
| RB | Ronnie Rivers | Fresno State |
| RB | Pierre Strong, Jr. | South Dakota State |
| RB | D’Vonte Price | FIU |
| RB | Sincere McCormick | UTSA |
| RB | Lopini Katoa | BYU |
| WR | Christian Watson | North Dakota State |
| WR | Danny Gray | SMU |
| WR | Jerreth Sterns | Western Kentucky |
| TE | Derrick Deese Jr. | San Jose State |
| TE | Grant Calcaterra | SMU |
| TE | Josh Whyle | Cincinnati |
| OT | Spencer Burford | UTSA |
| OT | Luke Goedeke | Central Michigan |
| OT | Chris Paul | Tulsa |
| OT | Matt Waletzko | North Dakota |
| G | Cole Strange | Chattanooga |
| G | O’Cyrus Torrence | Louisiana |
| EDGE | DeAngelo Malone | Western Kentucky |
| EDGE | Logan Hall | Houston |
| DL | Travis Jones | UConn |
| LB | Darrian Beavers | Cincinnati |
| CB | Tariq Woolen | UTSA |
| CB | Damarion Williams | Houston |
| CB | Kekaula Kaniho | Boise State |