NASHVILLE—Five Miami Hurricanes are expected to be selected by the time the 2019 National Football League Draft ends in Nashville this weekend. ESPN NFL Draft analysts Mel Kiper and Todd McShay both expected Gerald Willis and Joe Jackson to go as early as the third or even second round Saturday.
But as the second day of the draft ends, zero players have been selected from the school that calls itself #NFLU in admiration, far removed from the turn of the century, when from 2001-04, UM lead all schools each year in first-round selections, with 19 players drafted in Round 1 over those four years and six in 2004 alone.