It’s been a fun and exhilarating draft for Green Bay Packers followers. It’s true, we tend to get our hopes up too much. History tells us that most of these prospects that shine so brightly now will flame out and not even be on the team in two or three years. But maybe, just maybe, this year will be different.
Leading up to the 2017 draft, I did a piece on the colleges and conferences that produced the most players invited to the NFL Combine. I included a list of the colleges that produced the most Packers’ draftees since 2005, which went like this: Pac-12, 20; SEC, 17; Big 10, 12, and ACC, 9.