Ohio State is known for sending pro-ready players to the NFL year-after-year, but some draft classes are bound to be more successful than others. While the 2016 draft class exceeded most reasonable expectations, the year before that didn’t produce anything approaching an equal level of success.
Of the seven players who made the jump to the NFL in 2015, none have become full-time starters for their respective teams. Injuries have affected almost every Buckeye from that draft class, and season-after-season more than one of them has ended up on the IR.
Most rookie contracts are four-year deals, meaning that the guys from 2015 have one season left to find a way to extend their NFL careers.