As the NFL season kicks off today (okay, okay, it kicked off Thursday night, but today’s the real opening day) we take stock of which former Vanderbilt players are in the league. There was a time within the memory of at least some of us that we’d have maybe one or two former players to track (hi, Jay Cutler), but no longer. Today, the NFL season will kick off with eight former Vanderbilt Commodores on NFL rosters.
Casey Hayward, San Diego Los Angeles Chargers: I am still having difficulty adjusting to this whole “Los Angeles Chargers” thing, but Hayward is now the lone former Bobby Johnson recruit playing in the league (okay, that’s a technicality for reasons that we’ll get to in a minute.