I was a bit shocked at the gap. If that isn’trecruiting material.....tell me what is.
trib.al
Alabama and Ohio State tied for sending the most players into the NFL via the 2021 NFL Draft last week. But when it comes to the draft’s bottom line, the Crimson Tide practically lapped every other college program this year.
The 10 players selected from Alabama during the 86th NFL Draft will sign contracts worth $135,671,054. The bottom line for Florida, the No. 2 college program in the value of its drafted players’ contracts, came to $71,333,903. Eight Gators were drafted this year.
Alabama won the draft’s bottom-line title for the third time in four years. Last year, the Crimson Tide finished second to LSU, which set an SEC record by having 14 players picked in the 2020 draft.
The bottom-line standings are a ranking of the total value of the contracts that will be signed by each college program’s draft class as the players enter the NFL.
Each drafted player receives a four-year contract. The values of those contracts are based on the NFL’s salary cap of $182.5 million for the 2021 season and this year’s rookie compensation pool in a formula spelled out in the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the league and its players association. That makes it possible to calculate the money allotted to each draft slot (and the sports financial web site spotrac.com has done so).
Alabama’s 10 draft picks in 2021 will sign for more money than LSU’s 14 did last year. The Tigers’ total for 2020 was $124,058,909.
This year’s contracts range from a total value of $36,793,488 for the No. 1 pick – Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars -- to $3,556,245 for the final pick – Houston linebacker Grant Stuard, who was chosen by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at No. 259. Lawrence’s signing bonus of around $24.119 million will be worth more than the total value of all but five other rookie contracts this year.
Alabama’s drafted players to sign for $135.671 million
The 10 Crimson Tide players selected nearly double the contract values of any other college’s 2021 class.
Alabama and Ohio State tied for sending the most players into the NFL via the 2021 NFL Draft last week. But when it comes to the draft’s bottom line, the Crimson Tide practically lapped every other college program this year.
The 10 players selected from Alabama during the 86th NFL Draft will sign contracts worth $135,671,054. The bottom line for Florida, the No. 2 college program in the value of its drafted players’ contracts, came to $71,333,903. Eight Gators were drafted this year.
Alabama won the draft’s bottom-line title for the third time in four years. Last year, the Crimson Tide finished second to LSU, which set an SEC record by having 14 players picked in the 2020 draft.
The bottom-line standings are a ranking of the total value of the contracts that will be signed by each college program’s draft class as the players enter the NFL.
Each drafted player receives a four-year contract. The values of those contracts are based on the NFL’s salary cap of $182.5 million for the 2021 season and this year’s rookie compensation pool in a formula spelled out in the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the league and its players association. That makes it possible to calculate the money allotted to each draft slot (and the sports financial web site spotrac.com has done so).
Alabama’s 10 draft picks in 2021 will sign for more money than LSU’s 14 did last year. The Tigers’ total for 2020 was $124,058,909.
This year’s contracts range from a total value of $36,793,488 for the No. 1 pick – Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, who was selected by the Jacksonville Jaguars -- to $3,556,245 for the final pick – Houston linebacker Grant Stuard, who was chosen by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at No. 259. Lawrence’s signing bonus of around $24.119 million will be worth more than the total value of all but five other rookie contracts this year.
