Big 12 Finishes With 31 NFL Draft Picks, Fifth Among Conferences
The Big 12 Conference finished fifth in 2024 NFL Draft picks among conferences, while the Texas Longhorns set a program record for their selections.
CBS Sports tallied up the selections by conference and the SEC had the most with 59.
Texas and Oklahoma will join the SEC in July.
The Pac-12, which will no longer be an autonomy conference after its breakup, was second with 43 selections.
USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington are going to the Big Ten come July. The Big 12 was third with 42 selections.
Meanwhile, Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah will join the Big 12 on July 1.
Stanford and Cal will join the ACC, while Oregon State and Washington State will be the only two remaining members of the conference.
The ACC had 41 selections, followed by the Big 12 with 31.
Michigan, which won the national championship in January, led all schools with 13 selections. Texas had 11, which set a program record in the modern era of the NFL Draft, which is seven rounds. Alabama, Florida State and Washington each had 10 selections.
Texas won the Big 12 Conference championship game and made the College Football Playoff for the first time before losing to Washington in the Sugar Bowl. Two players were selected in the first round — Byron Murphy and Xavier Worthy.
Kansas State, Oklahoma and TCU had three selections, while Kansas, Texas Tech and UCF each had two.
Utah led the future Big 12 schools with five picks. Arizona had three players selected.
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