2021 NFL Draft college takeaways: SEC and Alabama set records, late-round sleepers, more (05/03)
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
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🗓️ 3 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew recaps all the college and conference angles to the NFL Draft. After some lingering reaction to Kansas’ big news on Friday (1:30), we kickstart the draft talk with what’s behind the SEC’s dominance in the NFL Draft as it sets yet another modern record for picks (10:00). Then it’s to the other end of the conference count with a look at the Big 12, which had no first round picks and ranked fifth among Power Five leagues for the 10th straight season (21:30). Plus, why college stars we loved to cover fell to the late rounds of the draft or went undrafted (29:00) and an early look at the 2022 NFL Draft class (48:40).
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson, Tom Fernelli, Danny |
| 0:09.3 | Cannell, and Bob Elliott. |
| 0:11.9 | It's your call for the best college football coverage from National Signing Day to the |
| 0:16.8 | National Championship and everything in between. |
| 0:20.6 | CBS Sports presents the Cover 3 podcast. |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. |
| 0:29.6 | That's Danny Cannell, that's Bud Elliott, that's Tom Fernelli. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm Chip Patterson, big weekend in college football. |
| 0:35.3 | The NFL draft, we had that instant reaction for you on Thursday night from the first round |
| 0:40.0 | and now we're going to break things down a little bit more. |
| 0:44.1 | We're talking by school, we're talking by conference. |
| 0:46.6 | What does it mean if you had the most? |
| 0:48.3 | What does it mean if you did not have any? |
| 0:50.6 | There is a very, very interesting list of players that went undrafted that we all thought |
| 0:55.1 | very, very highly of in college. |
| 0:58.2 | We'll dig into some of that and much more of our notes from the weekend as we gather |
| 1:04.2 | together on Friday, the news broke that Lance Leipold was going to be the hire at Kansas. |
| 1:10.6 | Tom and I got a chance to jump in on our emergency podcast before we get going. |
| 1:14.7 | Bud, Danny, any sort of thoughts or any lingering expectations that you want to make sure |
| 1:20.8 | that we get out here for the people before we start to really advance this thing. |
| 1:25.0 | And start to learn about what the Lance Leipold experience is going to look like in Lawrence. |
| 1:32.2 | I think it's a great hire. |
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