The Group of Six has always produced elite players. But now in the age of NIL and the transfer portal, those players’ career paths look a little bit different.
Now many of them develop at G6 schools and then go to a Power Four program to make more money, improve their draft stocks, or both. Several players who are looking at being drafted played for a G6 team at some point in their careers.
We at HERO Sports wrote 50 profiles about these players to get you ready for the NFL Draft on Thursday. Here’s our analysis of those players and predictions for where we think they could end up going.
1st-Round NFL Draft Prospects
2nd-Round NFL Draft Prospects
- San Diego State CB Chris Johnson
- Vanderbilt TE Eli Stowers
- UConn WR Skyler Bell
- Indiana CB D’Angelo Ponds
- Auburn EDGE Keyron Crawford
- LSU DB AJ Haulcy
- Tennessee WR Chris Brazzell
- Oregon OL Emmanuel Pregnon
3rd-Round NFL Draft Prospects
- Boise State OL Kage Casey
- Arkansas RB Mike Washington Jr.
- Indiana WR Elijah Sarratt
- Georgia State WR Ted Hurst
4th-Round NFL Draft Prospects
- Arkansas CB Julian Neal
- Texas Tech EDGE Skyler Gill-Howard
- Arkansas QB Taylen Green
- Western Michigan DE Nadame Tucker
- Houston TE Tanner Koziol
- Memphis OL Travis Burke
5th-Round NFL Draft Prospects
- Texas EDGE Trey Moore
- Navy RB Eli Heidenreich
- Oregon OL Alex Harkey
- Georgia Tech WR Eric Rivers
- Indiana LB Aiden Fisher
- Arizona State LB Keyshaun Elliott
6th-Round NFL Draft Prospects
- UConn QB Joe Fagnano
- TCU WR Eric McAlister
- Navy DT Landon Robinson
- Toledo CB Andre Fuller
- UTSA RB Robert Henry Jr.
- Wyoming TE John Michael Gyllenborg
7th-Round NFL Draft Prospects
- Buffalo LB Red Murdock
- Vanderbilt QB Diego Pavia
- FIU RB Kejon Owens
- Memphis QB Brendon Lewis
- Memphis OT Chris Adams
- Toledo CB Avery Smith
