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NFL draft 2018: SEC again leads all college football conferences with 10 first-round picks

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The Southeastern Conference are again kings of the first round of the NFL draft.

For the seventh time in eight years, the SEC led all conferences with the most selections in the first round. The 10 players taken Thursday easily outpaced the ACC, which finished second with six.

Early in the draft it didn't look like the SEC's night, however. Just one of the first 10 picks was from the conference - Georgia linebacker Roquan Smith to the Chicago Bears at No.