It’s not easy for any player from a non-FBS school to be selected in the NFL Draft. Only two D2 football players were drafted in 2015, and while nobody is suggesting a bumper crop of D2 players will hear their names called in Chicago this weekend, here are five players I think deserve to be drafted.
Unlike Mel Kiper, Jr. (“draft expert”) and Mike Mayock – whose on-air analysis is only slightly easier to follow than nuclear physics – my selections aren’t based on combine stats or pro days or advanced statistical analysis. Rather, these predictions are just based on years of faithful D2 football fandom and analysis.
So, let’s go prospecting, football fans…