NFL Draft 2012: First Round Notes

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2012 NFL DRAFT ROUND 1 NOTES

RECORD NUMBER OF PLAYERS ATTEND 2012 NFL DRAFT 26 NFL DRAFT PROSPECTS were in attendance tonight at Radio City Music Hall for Round 1 of the 2012 NFL Draft - the most in history. This year's total eclipses last year's record of 25 players. A record five players from BCS National Champion Alabama were on hand: S MARK BARRON, LB DONT'A HIGHTOWER, CB DRE KIRKPATRICK, RB TRENT RICHARDSON and LB COURTNEY UPSHAW.

LUCK OF THE DRAW: Indianapolis selected ANDREW LUCK with the No. 1 pick of the 2012 NFL Draft, marking the fourth time a Stanford quarterback has been chosen first overall, the most of any college in history. Notre Dame is the only other school with multiple quarterbacks selected No. 1 in NFL Draft history (ANGELO BERTELLI, 1944; FRANK DANCEWICZ, 1946).

STANFORD QUARTERBACKS SELECTED FIRST OVERALL

(All-Time)

YEAR	PLAYER	TEAM
1954	Bobby Garrett	Cleveland Browns
1971	Jim Plunkett	New England Patriots
1983	John Elway	Baltimore Colts
2012	Andrew Luck	Indianapolis Colts

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MULTIPLE MOVES: There were 19 trades involving first-round selections in the 2012 NFL Draft, the most since at least 1970. The previous high during that span was 15 first-round trades in 1995.

FIRST-ROUND TRADES SINCE 1970

(Yearly totals can include future selections traded in previous years.)

DRAFT	ROUND 1 TRADES			DRAFT	ROUND 1 TRADES
1970	3			1992	9
1971	4			1993	11
1972	6			1994	11
1973	9			1995	15
1974	9			1996	11
1975	8			1997	13
1976	7			1998	8
1977	10			1999	11
1978	8			2000	12
1979	7			2001	14
1980	10			2002	11
1981	6			2003	9
1982	9			2004	9
1983	8			2005	5
1984	9			2006	4
1985	10			2007	7
1986	10			2008	9
1987	8			2009	7
1988	7			2010	7
1989	11			2011	4
1990	8			2012	19
1991	8

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IT'S A QB LEAGUE: With the Colts' selection of Stanford QB ANDREW LUCK, the 2012 NFL Draft marked the fourth consecutive year a quarterback has been chosen first overall - the second-longest streak in NFL Draft history. A quarterback was taken off the board first in each year from 2001-05.

Tonight also marked the 31st time in NFL Draft history a quarterback has been selected first overall - the most of any position - and the 10th time in the last 12 years.

FIRST OVERALL SELECTIONS

(2001-2012)

YEAR	PLAYER	POSITION	TEAM
2001	Michael Vick	QB	Atlanta
2002	David Carr	QB	Houston
2003	Carson Palmer	QB	Cincinnati
2004	Eli Manning	QB	San Diego
2005	Alex Smith	QB	San Francisco
2006	Mario Williams	DE	Houston
2007	JaMarcus Russell	QB	Oakland
2008	Jake Long	T	Miami
2009	Matthew Stafford	QB	Detroit
2010	Sam Bradford	QB	St. Louis
2011	Cam Newton	QB	Carolina
2012	Andrew Luck	QB	Indianapolis

With the Redskins' selection of Baylor QB ROBERT GRIFFIN III at No. 2 overall in Round 1, Luck and Griffin have become the fifth pair of quarterbacks to be selected No. 1 and No. 2 overall in the same year since the common draft was instituted in 1967.

QUARTERBACKS SELECTED NUMBER ONE AND NUMBER TWO OVERALL

IN THE SAME YEAR

(Since 1967)

YEAR	NO. 1 SELECTION	NO. 2 SELECTION
1971	Jim Plunkett - New England	Archie Manning - New Orleans
1993	Drew Bledsoe - New England	Rick Mirer - Seattle
1998	Peyton Manning - Indianapolis	Ryan Leaf - San Diego
1999	Tim Couch - Cleveland	Donovan McNabb - Philadelphia
2012	Andrew Luck - Indianapolis	Robert Griffin III - Washington

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TANNEHILL TWO-STEP: Miami selected RYAN TANNEHILL with the No. 8 overall pick, making him the first Texas A&M quarterback chosen in the first round since the advent of the common draft in 1967.

This is the second consecutive season the Aggies had a first-round selection. In 2011, the Denver Broncos selected LB VON MILLER with the No. 2 pick.

Below are the Texas A&M quarterbacks selected in the NFL Draft since 1967:

TEXAS A&M QUARTERBACKS SELECTED IN THE NFL DRAFT

(Since 1967)

YEAR	PLAYER	TEAM	ROUND
1969	Edd Hargett	New Orleans Saints	16
1983	Gary Kubiak	Denver Broncos	8
1992	Bucky Richardson	Houston Oilers	8
2009	Stephen McGee	Dallas Cowboys	4
2012	Ryan Tannehill	Miami Dolphins	1

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PARTY OF TWO: For the second time in school history, South Carolina has two first-round selections in the same NFL Draft - CB STEPHON GILMORE (No. 10, Buffalo) and DE MELVIN INGRAM (No. 18, San Diego). The only year in which the school had multiple players selected in Round 1 was 1981 (RB GEORGE ROGERS, New Orleans, No. 1; TE WILLIE SCOTT, Kansas City, No. 14).

SOUTH CAROLINA PLAYERS SELECTED IN THE FIRST ROUND

(All-Time)

YEAR	PLAYER	POSITION	TEAM	OVERALL SELECTION
1979	Rick Sanford	DB	New England	25
1981	George Rogers	RB	New Orleans	1
1981	Willie Scott	TE	Kansas City	14
1988	Sterling Sharpe	WR	Green Bay	7
1993	Ernest Dye	T	Phoenix	18
2000	John Abraham	DE	N.Y. Jets	13
2004	Dunta Robinson	DB	Houston	10
2005	Troy Williamson	WR	Minnesota	7
2006	Johnathan Joseph	CB	Cincinnati	24
2012	Stephon Gilmore	CB	Buffalo	10
2012	Melvin Ingram	LB	San Diego	18

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WAKE UP THE ECHOES: WR MICHAEL FLOYD (No. 13, Arizona) left his mark at Notre Dame, establishing school records in receptions (271), receiving yards (3,686) and touchdown catches (37). Tonight, he becomes the third Notre Dame wide receiver to be selected in the first round since 1967 and the first since Heisman Trophy winnerTIM BROWN (No. 6 overall, L.A. Raiders) in 1988.

NOTRE DAME WIDE RECEIVERS SELECTED IN ROUND 1

(Since 1967)

YEAR	PLAYER	TEAM	OVERALL SELECTION
1969	Jim Seymour	Los Angeles Rams	10
1988	Tim Brown	Los Angeles Raiders	6
2012	Michael Floyd	Arizona Cardinals	13

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SEC FLAVOR: The SEC had nine players drafted in Round 1 tonight, the most of any conference.

Since 2000, the SEC leads all conferences with 495 total draft choices:

CONFERENCE	DRAFT CHOICES
SEC	495
Big Ten	418
PAC-12	367
Big XII	351
Big East	304
ACC	304