College Football 2017 Week 12 running thread

My process was also a check on level of competition. And it cuts both ways. I didn’t want to dismiss a great player due to competition level, either.

 

Roethlisberger -- Miami of Ohio
Wentz -- North Dakota
Flacco -- Delaware
Cutler -- Vandy
Bortles -- UCF
Garoppolo -- Eastern Illinois
Lynch -- Northern Illinois
Peterman -- Army
Carr -- Fresno State
McCown -- Sam Houston State

 

FCS football players on 2017 NFL rosters

Roster breakdown:

160: Number of NFL players who played at current FCS programs. This accounts for 53-man active rosters and injured reserve lists.

12: Number of former FCS players on the New York Jets, most in the NFL. The Baltimore Ravens (10) are the only other team with more than nine.

6: Number of NFL players from Delaware, North Dakota State and Appalachian State, which is most in the FCS.

3: Number of former Eastern Washington student-athletes on the Los Angeles Rams, the most players from a single school on a single NFL roster. Rookies Kupp and Samson Ebukam joined offensive lineman Aaron Neary in Los Angeles this year.

Position breakdown:

QB: 6 (Notables: Joe Flacco, Josh McCown, Carson Wentz)

RB: 13 (Notables: David Johnson, Charcandrick West, Isaiah Crowell)

WR: 17 (Notables: Cooper Kupp, Chris Hogan, Cameron Meredith)

TE: 10 (Notables: Julius Thomas, Cameron Brate, Will Tye)

OL: 25 (Notables: Austin Howard, Terron Armstead, JC Tretter)

DL: 23 (Notables: Chris Baker, Avery Moss, Derek Rivers)

LB: 26 (Notables: Arthur Moats, Justin Durant, Josh Martin)

DB: 29 (Notables: Mike Adams, Antoine Bethea, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie)

K: 2 (Notables: Adam Vinatieri, Jason Myers)

P: 5 (Notables: Colton Schmidt, Lachlan Edwards)

LS: 4 (Notables: Zak DeOssie, Tyler Ott)


Current FCS schools with players on NFL rosters

Abilene Christian 2
Alabama A&M 1
Alabama State 2
Appalachian State * 6
Arkansas-Pine Bluff 1
Bethune-Cookman 2
Brown 2
Bucknell 1
Cal Poly 1
Charlotte * 1
Chattanooga 3
Coastal Carolina * 4
Columbia 1
Cornell 1
Delaware 6
Delaware State 3
Drake 1
Eastern Illinois 2
Eastern Kentucky 2
Eastern Washington 5
Furman 1
Georgia Southern * 2
Georgia State * 2
Grambling 2
Hampton 2
Harvard 5
Holy Cross 1
Howard 1
Idaho State 2
Illinois State 4
Jacksonville 1
Jacksonville State 2
James Madison 4
Lamar 1
Liberty 2
Maine 1
Marist 2
Missouri State 1
Monmouth 1
Montana 3
Montana State 1
Murray State 1
New Hampshire 1
Nicholls 1
Norfolk State 2
North Carolina AT&T 2
North Carolina Central 1
North Dakota State 6
Northern Iowa 5
Northwestern State 1
Penn 2
Portland State 4
Presbyterian 1
Princeton 1
Richmond 1
Sacramento State 1
Sam Houston State 2
Samford 3
San Diego 1
South Carolina State 5
South Dakota 2
South Dakota State 3
Southeastern La. 1
Southern 1
Southern Illinois 1
Southern Utah 3
St. Francis (PA) 1
Stetson 1
Stony Brook 2
Tennessee State 3
The Citadel 1
Towson 3
UC Davis 1
UT San Antonio * 1
Villanova 2
Wagner 1
William & Mary 2
Wofford 2
Youngstown State 2

 

I posted about this last year and I'm sure others did, too. You don't realize how long the breaks are when you're watching on TV. But at a game, they seem interminable. I am acquainted with a Pac-12 ref and we were talking about this recently. I told him that I felt all the replay reviews and commercial breaks absolutely kill the momentum of the game. The example I gave was when a touchdown is scored. They have to review it because it was a scoring play. If it is controversial, like whether the guy's knee is down at the 1-yard line, it takes longer. Then they have the ever-exciting PAT, then 4 minutes of commercials. Then the ever-exciting kickoff out of the end zone, then another 4 minutes of commercials. You can go maybe 10 minutes with nothing happening.
At every commercial break, the coaches run of out things to say. The players are all just standing around. My ref friend pretty much agreed, but said there is nothing they can do about it.

 

At least in the pros, the breaks are loud and fun. At college games, they are either standing around or announcing the cross country team that took seventh at the Bumble Tech Relays.

 

Oh, the breaks at college games are plenty loud.

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Not sure about fun, though.

(hi, murph!)

 

Peterman played at Tennessee and Pitt,not Army.

 

Right. I was thinking of Steelman.

 

I thought it was hysterical last year when Baker Mayfield "decided" to come back for his senior season.
I could see a lot of NFL GM's sitting around, and sarcastically wiping the sweat from their brows.
Tell you what. Let Mayfield try and pull that shit he pulled Saturday on a Sunday, he will end up in a body cast.

 

There have been 82 Heisman winners so far. Eight made the NFL Hall of Fame. Only seven are still in the NFL, and although it's way too early to pull the plug on Winston and Mariota, they're not looking Canton bound.

 

My point is that, yes, great players can come from those kind of schools and I didn’t want to overlook them.

 

Penn State's OL seems to be fairly hot garbage. I really think they've been dragging Barkley down.