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No position is better stocked with Big Ten prospects than tackle, where Michigan State's Jack Conklin and Ohio State's Taylor Decker are expected to be drafted in the first round and Indiana's Jason Spriggs has a chance to be as well.
If Spriggs sneaks into the first round, it would give the conference three offensive linemen as first-round picks for the first time ever in the 50 years of the NFL's common draft.
Together with Notre Dame's Ronnie Stanley, the Midwest would have a chance to send four starting left tackles into the league in one year. Nebraska's Alex Lewis, who might go as high as the second round but more likely will be a third-round pick, is another potential NFL starter at left tackle.
In 1967, the rival NFL and AFL settled their differences and the combined 25 teams met on March 14 to draft 445 players over 17 rounds.
The Big Ten didn't have an offensive lineman picked in the first round that year, but the conference did produce a pair of first-rounders in both 1968 and '69.
Those were first of 17 drafts in which the Big Ten had two offensive linemen taken in the first round. Never, however, has it had three.
No position is better stocked with Big Ten prospects than tackle, where Michigan State's Jack Conklin and Ohio State's Taylor Decker are expected to be drafted in the first round and Indiana's Jason Spriggs has a chance to be as well.
If Spriggs sneaks into the first round, it would give the conference three offensive linemen as first-round picks for the first time ever in the 50 years of the NFL's common draft.
Together with Notre Dame's Ronnie Stanley, the Midwest would have a chance to send four starting left tackles into the league in one year. Nebraska's Alex Lewis, who might go as high as the second round but more likely will be a third-round pick, is another potential NFL starter at left tackle.
In 1967, the rival NFL and AFL settled their differences and the combined 25 teams met on March 14 to draft 445 players over 17 rounds.
The Big Ten didn't have an offensive lineman picked in the first round that year, but the conference did produce a pair of first-rounders in both 1968 and '69.
Those were first of 17 drafts in which the Big Ten had two offensive linemen taken in the first round. Never, however, has it had three.