<p>St Louis steps up to the plate…</p>
<p>Go Michael Sam!</p>
<p>(Yea, I know, hit the delete button on my post)</p>
<p>That will be great for him to land in a familiar city with a fan base that is used to rooting for him.</p>
<p>Not my city or team, but I’m rooting too. :)</p>
<p>About time somebody picks up Sam! The Rams were extremely lucky to get him. 
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<p>So, not totally following but do like to see where my PSU guys end up. Not sure whether to be happy or sad John Urschel picked up by Ravens. He is the smartest guy in the draft and I wonder how FB will affect that intellect. </p>
<p>Hahahah - they went on and on about his math prowess </p>
<p>Reading a bunch of random tweets about the draft. One guy referred to drafting a free agent right tackle. Since it was twitter, he abbreviated everything. Most unfortunate. </p>
<p>I’m lost - if he said player is a free agent he was by definition not drafted</p>
<p>Sam won’t play much at St. Louis. He has to compete with Long and Quinn two of the best defensive ends in the league. I wish a team other than the Rams had selected him. I hope he at least makes the practice squad.</p>
<p>Saintfan wow. That was a first round nit pick. And “you’re lost”. Really? Ok, perhaps I used a wrong word but I suspect most people could have figured out what I meant without getting lost. Geez. And that wasn’t even the point of my post. </p>
<p>Didn’t watch the draft this year. I got bored weeks ago by all the hullabaloo regarding Manziel and Sam. I wish them both well but I couldn’t help but be annoyed because neither are classic NFL-ready collegians and didn’t deserve all the press they were getting. But of course it would be fun to see either of them prove the critics wrong. In Sam’s case he can look for inspiration from the career of the late great Sam Mills, an undersized linebacker from a “nobody” football program at Montclair State, whom nevertheless became one of the best linebackers of the last 20 years in the NFL.</p>
<p>sorry - I just meant that I have no idea what you are talking about - still don’t :-/ </p>
<p>It was twitter. The tweet referred to the player as a " free agent right tackle" in twitter-speak. As in, he identifies the player as a “FA RT”. I was just commenting that I thought that was somewhat unfortunate for the player. </p>
<p>I thought that was amusing, but nothing is amusing when you have to explain it. </p>
<p>A kid from my boys’ HS got picked up as a free agent. Happy for him.</p>
<p>Ha! OK . . . I’m slow . . . didn’t mean to ruin the joke</p>
<p>Saintfan, it wasn’t that funny anyway, so don’t worry about it. ;)</p>
<p>It didn’t seem to me that there were a lot of Alabama players drafted, given how successful their team is every year. Is that incorrect? I’m curious about which school programs produced the most drafted players. Does anyone track that?</p>
<p>Sure they do. I don’t know who is in the lead lately, but I can guess. Years ago a great many NFL players came from the Texas schools. As a league I believe the Southeastern Conference has the most players in the NFL today. The top school? I’ll say either Florida, Georgia, Ohio State or Southern California.</p>
<p>Not many Alabama this year - off the top of my head maybe 6. I think they lost their whole offensive line last year (again off the top of my head) so they didn’t have as much to lose. Seahawks got Kevin Norwood WR. Somebody took their running back, AJ went late (Cardinals?) and maybe a couple more.</p>
<p>It seemed like they had fewer players relative to the dominance of their program though.</p>
<p><a href=“2014 NFL Draft picks by college, conference, state and recruit rating - SBNation.com”>2014 NFL Draft picks by college, conference, state and recruit rating - SBNation.com;
<p>OK - they were up there in the most guys - they were just later round picks so not as splashy</p>
<p>Texas ended a 76-year streak of having someone drafted. Pathetic.</p>