Skimming through the news this morning, the reports from TigerNet make it pretty clear to me that the draft didn’t go so well, at least for Clemson-related interests. It’s somewhat good to know that it went great for the ACC, but when the first bullet of the Clemson NFL Draft Notes is about the “first time in history two Clemson players were taken with consecutive draft choices”, which happened to be in the fifth round, you know that there weren’t really any highlights.
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| CONFERENCE | OVERALL | |||||
| W | L | % | W | L | % | |
| Atlantic | ||||||
| Clemson | 6 | 2 | 0.750 | 8 | 5 | 0.615 |
| Boston College | 5 | 3 | 0.625 | 8 | 4 | 0.667 |
| Florida State | 4 | 4 | 0.500 | 6 | 6 | 0.500 |
| Wake Forest | 3 | 5 | 0.375 | 5 | 7 | 0.417 |
| North Carolina State | 2 | 6 | 0.250 | 5 | 7 | 0.417 |
| Maryland | 1 | 7 | 0.125 | 2 | 10 | 0.167 |
| Coastal | ||||||
| Georgia Tech (9) | 7 | 1 | 0.875 | 11 | 2 | 0.846 |
| Virginia Tech (12) | 6 | 2 | 0.750 | 9 | 3 | 0.750 |
| Miami (FL) (14) | 5 | 3 | 0.625 | 9 | 3 | 0.750 |
| North Carolina | 4 | 4 | 0.500 | 8 | 4 | 0.667 |
| Duke | 3 | 5 | 0.375 | 5 | 7 | 0.417 |
| Virginia | 2 | 6 | 0.250 | 3 | 9 | 0.250 |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | ||
So, what does it mean if a player (Kelly, Grisham, Jackson) wasn’t drafted, but still is going pro due to free agent deals. How does that work out?
Something along the lines of…”Hey, we may sign you, or you can go play in Europe, CFL, etc, and see if you can play at another level. We don’t want to pay you any real bonus money or contract and really have a full pre-season camp planned, but hey, you were pretty good in college so if you work real hard and we get some injuries, there may be a place later.”