Hill sole Tech player chosen in draft
The third and final day of the NFL draft transpired without any Georgia Tech selections, leaving wide receiver Stephen Hill the only Yellow Jackets draftee for this year. Hill was picked in the second round by the New York Jets on Friday.
It was the second year in a row that Tech produced one draft pick. In 2011, the Baltimore Ravens took B-back Anthony Allen in the seventh round.
It may be the case that no Tech players will be signed as undrafted free agents, as well. Just before 9 p.m., defensive end Jason Peters, defensive tackle Logan Walls and A-back Roddy Jones had not been contacted by any NFL teams about signing as undrafted free agents. The agent for A-back Embry Peeples said he had not have a deal, either. Three other hopefuls, linebacker Steven Sylvester, wide receiver Tyler Melton and safety Rashaad Reid, could not be reached.
SI.com draft expert Tony Pauline said prior to the draft that Jones, Peters and Sylvester were the three likeliest Tech players to get picked up.
They might take hope from former teammate Kevin Cone. The former Tech wide receiver went unsigned after the 2011 draft until three days prior to the opening of the Falcons training camp. Cone made the practice squad and then the active roster late in the season.
Ken Sugiura, Georgia Tech beat
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I wonder....
April 30th, 2012
10:14 am
Does Caleb King like Eddie Murphy?
GT-'98
April 30th, 2012
10:45 am
Walls entered the draft? Seriously?
With the caliber of recruits CPJ has been signing, get used to fewer and fewer Tech players in the NFL.
old dog
April 30th, 2012
10:55 am
Y’alls system will probably not overload you with NFL tallent. I think it is more the system than the school. Some NFL Techsters were there when CPJ got there. I think Tech will come around, but the “cripple” option as is now will baffle folks initially, but can be figured out relatively quickly. (See UGA!) However, I find it hard to believe leaving it like it is will bring in top talent.
Birminham Jacket
April 30th, 2012
11:10 am
@old dog
Mostly agree. NFL prospects don’t won’t to play in a highschool offense.
However, that still doesn’t account for CPJ’s, et. al. abysmal ability to recruit defensive players.
The CPJ experiment will come to an end in 3-4 more years, with D. Rad or our new AD declaring failure. Translation— it will take us 7-8 more years to back to a program that looks anything like it did under O’Leary/Fridge.
GTfan 2012
April 30th, 2012
11:26 am
Birmingham Jacket,
Right, winning a lousy 33 games in four years is terrible. If having a mix of 3* and 4* talent in the secondary, 3* and 4* talent in the LB corps, and 3* and 4* talent on the DL is abysmal, then I guess GT’s recruiting is probably going to be abysmal, in your view, for a long long time to come.
Birminham Jacket
April 30th, 2012
11:41 am
@GTfan 2012
“A mix of 3* and 4* talent.” Seriously? I mean seriously?
For delusional and/or uneducated fans like yourself, there may be little hope.
No objective comments (see video link to the right—duh!) or recruiting rankings that report we’ve signed yet another class, no even close to the top 25 will ever convince you that the reason we get spanked every time we play a quality team is lack of talent.
How long has it been since we’ve won a bowl game?
And news flash— a lot of those 33 wins were with Gailey’s players.
CC
April 30th, 2012
11:45 am
LMAO! One player selected in the draft. Ole Paul knows how to develop talent.
Richard
April 30th, 2012
12:03 pm
CC,
In case you’ve missed this minor tidbit, it is not PJ’s job to prepare a player for the NFL. PJ’s role is to win games and graduate players.
Bashing a college coach for total players drafted by NFL teams illustrates more about your understanding than it does anything about PJ.
FL Jacket
April 30th, 2012
12:10 pm
“A mix of 3* and 4* talent.” Seriously? I mean seriously?
For delusional and/or uneducated fans like yourself, there may be little hope.
No objective comments (see video link to the right—duh!) or recruiting rankings that report we’ve signed yet another class, no even close to the top 25 will ever convince you that the reason we get spanked every time we play a quality team is lack of talent.”
LOL @ Birmingham (aka pretend Tech fan)
As dubious a comparison as comparing recruiting stars might be…the 3- and 4-star ratings for our players on defense is a fact. J.C. Lanier, Denzel McCory, and Shawn Green were all 4-star DT recruits. Louis Young and Rod Sweeting were 4-star recruits.
You bring team recruiting rankings into the argument as to why Tech doen’t win more? Yet these rankings apply quantity to the scoring which makes not one lick of sense. Any team that signs 40 2- and 3-star guys would outscore a team like Tech who average more than 3-stars per recruit but only sign 15-20 every year. If you think this makes sense than I have some swampland…
And for the last time…CLEMSON IS A QUALITY OPPONENT
GTfan 2012
April 30th, 2012
12:48 pm
Birmingham (should I even bother with the Jacket part?!?),
So let me see if I got this straight. CPJ get no credit for winning ANY games in his first two or so years because most of those players were recruited under the prior coach. I’ll play along. In 2010, GT had one of its worst years in recent memory. But the good news for CPJ is that he can’t really be blamed for that, by your logic, because 18 of the 22 starters were not recruited by CPJ.
FL Jacket already stated it, but we do have a mix of 3* and 4* talent at every position group on defense. 4* include – DL – Francis Kallon, Anthony Williams, Shawn Green; LBs – Jabari Hunt Days; DL – Louis Young, Rod Sweeting. This does not include J.C. Lanier who was a 4* that moved from defense to offense or Ryan Ayers, who left the program.
GTfan 2012
April 30th, 2012
1:01 pm
Sorry, the second DL should say DB
yo
May 2nd, 2012
10:27 am
Just glad CPJ coached Hill up to the second round or Tech might not have had any draft picks in the NFL. As we know about Decalb County athletes they are lacking in good coaching coming out of high school…..right WnE? Except possibly Tucker.