2020 NFL Draft gives LSU leg up in best college football team ever debate
The 2019 LSU football team tied a record with 14 picks in the 2020 NFL Draft and giving the Tigers a leg up in the best college football team ever debate.
The story of the 2020 NFL Draft was the LSU Tigers who were the big winners of the recently concluded seven-round event. Joe Burrow was the No. 1 pick by the Cincinnati Bengals, as everyone expected since he concluded his record-breaking season with a convincing win over the Clemson Tigers in the National Championship Game.
What happened over the next 244 picks confirmed the 2019 LSU Tigers were arguably the greatest team ever assembled in college football history.
In total, LSU football had 14 players picked in the 2020 NFL Draft, which tied the record held by 2004 Ohio State. The Bayou Bengals would have broken the record outright and held the record for themselves if not for an injury to tight end Thaddeus Moss who could have been a Day 3 pick but went undrafted.
LSU’s offense:
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▪️Had the #1 pick in the NFL Draft
▪️Became the first ever school with a QB, RB & WR drafted in the first round in the same year
▪️All 5 starting OL drafted or signed
▪️7 total draft picks
▪️*Every* draft eligible player was drafted or signed as a UDFA
Unreal.
All this talent on one roster and it doesn’t even include Biletnikoff Award winner Ja’Marr Chase who could have been the top receiver taken in a historically loaded class for receivers, and Daryl Stingley, Jr. a freshman who likely would have been a top-10 pick if he was eligible. Throw those players in and it’s easy to make a convincing case why the 2019 LSU Tigers are the greatest college football team of all time.
Yes, 2001 Miami and 1995 Nebraska have great cases to be made for their place among the best college football teams of all time. What’s most fresh in my mind, however, is the Tigers crushing everyone and everything that stood in their way toward a national title. They scored points as a record pace, embarrassed elite programs like Oklahoma in the College Football Playoff semifinal and handed reigning national champion Clemson their first loss in two years and Trevor Lawrence‘s first loss since high school.
LSU football players picked in 2020 NFL Draft
No. 1: Joe Burrow – Cincinnati Bengals
No. 20: K’Lavon Chaisson – Jacksonville Jaguars
No. 22: Justin Jefferson – Minnesota Vikings
No. 28: Patrick Queen – Baltimore Ravens
No. 32: Clyde Edwards-Helaire – Kansas City Chiefs
No. 44: Grant Delpit – Cleveland Browns
No. 61: Kristian Fulton – Tennessee Titans
No. 69: Damien Lewis – Seattle Seahawks
No. 83: Lloyd Cushenberry – Denver Broncos
No. 97: Jacob Phillips – Cleveland Browns
No. 108: Saahdiq Charles – Washington Redskins
No. 131: Rashard Lawrence – Arizona Cardinals
No. 185: Blake Ferguson – Miami Dolphins
No. 251: Stephen Sullivan – Seattle Seahawks
Just look at all these LSU draft picks. LSU was so loaded that even Blake Ferguson, the team’s long snapper, was drafted on Day 3. You know you’re the greatest team of all time when your long snapper gets drafted. They also had a backup tight end, Stephen Sullivan, plucked in the seventh round. When the reserves are getting gambled on, you know you have an all-time loaded roster that everyone wants to get a piece of.
Players who went undrafted but were quickly scooped up in “Round 8” include: Moss, Michael Divinity, Derrick Dillon, Breiden Fehoko, Adrian Magee and Badara Traore.
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