The first set of numbers have been selected as 32 members of the Virginia football team earned their jerseys. Bronco Mendenhall has preached “earned not given” as one of his main mantras since taking over the Virginia program in 2016. Each season, players are selected week-by-week in fall camp to select their jersey numbers for the upcoming season.
We don’t yet know who picked first overall in this year’s draft, but 18 of the 32 jerseys selected belong to fourth or fifth year seniors. Eight third years and six second years round out the remainder of the players that heard their names called this time around.