This Thursday night, the NFL Draft will begin, and in order, 259 college football players will have their dreams made. Four UNC Tar Heels are hoping that they’re among them and will get a chance to ply their craft at the highest level: wide receivers Josh Downs and Antoine Green, and edge rusher/linebacker Noah Taylor. Here’s everything we know about their pre-draft processes, and what we might be able to expect about where and when they could hear their names called.
- Josh Downs will almost definitively be the first Heel to hear his name called, as one of the top 6-ish wide receivers in the draft (that’s a rough average, some think he’s as high as 3rd or 4th-best while others have him as low as 8th).