Georgia Bulldogs NFL Draft Recap: A.J. Green Headlines SEC-Leading Six-Pick Class
by T Kyle King on May 1, 2011 8:47 AM EDT
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PrintThe 2011 NFL Draft is finished, and the Georgia Bulldogs sent six players to the professional ranks over the course of the three-day selection process.
As expected, the Cincinnati Bengals took A.J. Green with the fourth overall pick, while Justin Houston’s reported recent indiscretion caused him to fall out of the second round altogether. Akeem Dent also was taken in the third round, going to the hometown Atlanta Falcons. After choosing just five Bulldogs in their history through 2005, the Dirty Birds have selected three Georgia players in the last six drafts.
Likewise, two Bulldogs were taken in the fourth round, with Clint Boling joining Green in Cincinnati and Kris Durham being scooped up by the Seattle Seahawks. Boling, who was selected 101st overall, is the eleventh Georgia player to have been chosen by the Bengals in the draft. Durham went 107th, which was good news for fans of the Red and Black, who feared the receiver might have to make it into the NFL as an undrafted free agent.
To the apparent chagrin of fans of the Dallas Cowboys, Shaun Chapas was the last Bulldog off the board, going in the seventh round as the overall 220th pick. The Cowboys’ choice of Chapas enabled Georgia to tie the LSU Tigers as the SEC team to have sent the most players to the NFL in this year’s draft.
The Bulldogs have now had 27 players selected in the first round of the NFL Draft, including seven top five picks and four who went No. 1 overall: Frank Sinkwich in 1943, Charley Trippi in 1947, Harry Babcock in 1953, and Matthew Stafford in 2009. The Bengals’ selection of Green made this the second draft in the last three years to see at least one Georgia player chosen in the first round. However, since seeing Thomas Davis and David Pollack taken 14th and 17th overall, respectively, in 2005, the Red and Black have had just three players go in the first round.
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After reading that thread...
…on BTB, I think Cowboys fans love the Chapas pick. Speaking personally as a life long Cowboys fan and a UGA graduate, I love the pick. I think we all see the instant comparison to the Moose in him. Also, after going through all the H-back mess over and over, I think we’re just happy to have a true FB who understands that blocking is his first job. And since the drafting of DeMarco Murray seems to signal the end if the Marion Barber era in big D, Chapas may turn into a short yardage specialist as well. Don’t forget that last year’s rookie FB missed the block that was responsible for Romo’s shoulder injury. The Boys want (and need) Chapas to come in and play.
I was referring to the immediate reaction . . .
. . . noted by MaconDawg in yesterday’s draft thread. Evidently, some Dallas fans wanted a fullback from Pitt instead. I’m glad to see they’ve come around to recognizing they got a good one in Chapas. If one of the measures of player quality is how well the team does with him and without him, Chapas may have been the most valuable Bulldog not named “Adriel Jeremiah.” In baseball terms, Chapas’s VORP was pretty good.
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To expand on it
I think much of the fanbase was deadset on Hyonski. However, once the scouting report for Chapas came out, they warmed to him and realized that it wasn’t the end of the world.
Dare I say Bubba is in the lead? Or that he just hit a 300 foot putt?
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Yeah, a friend of mine who attended Georgia Tech updated his Facebook status on Thursday . . .
. . . to mock anyone who intended to watch the NFL Draft, “The Office,” or the royal wedding. It took all my self-control not to leave the following comment: “Well, to be fair, some of us who will be watching the draft root for college teams who will have players taken by professional football teams.”
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Was it the same one that mocked Uga's death?
Because then a lack of self restraint would be understood.
As has been noted:
Slippery Rock, Abilene Christian, and Yale all had players drafted before any of Paul Johnson’s warriors were.
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