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(11-15-2022 11:35 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 11:29 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(11-15-2022 09:33 AM)bearcatmark Wrote:  The Bearcats are taking over the NFL.

For reference, I looked at another random school that pro-football-reference.com says has the same number of active NFL players as UC: Illinois.

Illinois alumni ratings on PFF
#30 CB (Nate Hobbs)
#38 S (Kerby Joseph)
#77 Edge (Dawuane Smoot)
#116 Edge (Jihad Ward)
#11 Center (Ted Karras)
Chase McLaughlin, a kicker who scores 76.2 (kickers are not ranked because they don't have the minimum snap counts)

10 other active players who don't get the minimum # of snap counts

Ok. Part of that was tongue and cheek, but Uc might have three all pros this year. They have several guys playing at a very high level.

Yep, this is a seminal year for Cincinnati becoming more of a fixture in the NFL. There are a core guys who will likely get a second contract from the group of the last few years, which is a huge hurdle to becoming more respectable as a place that sends people to the league.

Having Sauce end up DROY and Travis Kelce coming out of his career as potentially the best TE ever to do it are just wo more feathers, but having the sheer volume of players in the NFL is far more important in recruiting. The more players we can get on more teams, so that our recruits, regardless of location, get to see a Bearcat in the NFL will be huge.