SEC Football by the Numbers has been looking at the 2024 NFL Draft in four parts. Monday’s initial installment examined the first round. Tuesday, it was a breakdown by positions. Wednesday, NFL teams were the focus. And for today, here are some stats and streaks about the conference and the draft leading into this year’s first round of picks tonight.

0 Players have been selected from Vanderbilt in the past three drafts. Only one other time in SEC history has a program gone three consecutive drafts without producing a pick. Vanderbilt did not have a player chosen in the 1993, 1994 and 1995 drafts. The most recent player picked from Vanderbilt was DE Dayo Odeyingbo at No. 54 by the Indianapolis Colts in the 2021 NFL Draft. Since then, 233 SEC players have been drafted. One of them was offensive tackle Tyler Steen, the 65th selection of the 2023 draft. Steen spent four seasons at Vanderbilt. But he was drafted from Alabama after transferring to the Crimson Tide for the 2022 campaign.

0 NFL drafts have been held without an Alabama or Auburn player being selected. Auburn has seven empty drafts (a draft without producing a picked player), and none coincides with Alabama’s four empty years. Auburn did not have a player drafted in 1936, 1947, 1948, 1952, 1954, 1976 or 2003. Alabama did not have a player drafted in 1960, 1961, 1970 or 2008. Both Alabama and Auburn will have multiple players drafted this week.

3 NFL drafts have not included a player from LSU, the fewest empty drafts in the SEC for the schools that have been conference members for all 89 drafts. LSU did not have a player picked in the drafts of 1938, 1942 and 1993. Alabama and Georgia have four empty drafts apiece, Tennessee has six, Auburn and Florida have seven each, Ole Miss has eight, Kentucky has nine, Mississippi State has 11 and Vanderbilt has 27, including the 2022, 2023 and 2024 drafts. In their 32 NFL drafts as SEC members, Arkansas has one empty draft and South Carolina has four. Missouri and Texas A&M have been SEC members for 12 drafts and haven’t come up empty during that time. Overall, Arkansas has six empty drafts and South Carolina has 11. Before joining the conference, Missouri had four empty drafts and Texas A&M had six. Oklahoma enters its first draft as an SEC member with only two empty years – 1962 and 1995. New member Texas has had four empty drafts.

13 Picks in the NFL Draft have been used on SEC players in each of the past two years. There are no three-in-a-row slots entering the 2025 selections. The picks that have been used on SEC players in each of the past two drafts have been No. 41, No. 45, No. 70, No. 97, No. 105, No. 116, No. 128, No. 141, No. 150, No. 193, No. 203, No. 224 and No. 244.

15 Players from Georgia were selected in 2022, the most in a seven-round draft in NFL history. The Bulldogs’ output surpassed the previous high for a seven-round draft of 14, accomplished by Ohio State in 2004 and matched by LSU in 2020. The NFL has held a seven-round draft annually since 1994. The most players picked from one school in the same draft are 17 from Texas in a 12-round, 336-player draft in 1984, before the Longhorns joined the SEC. Notre Dame had 16 players drafted in a 32-round, 300-player draft in 1946. Georgia provided 15 of the 262 players picked in 2022. The most players picked from each of the other current SEC members in one draft include 12 from Alabama in 2018, eight from Arkansas in 1945, 10 from Auburn in 1989, 10 from Florida in 1978, nine from Kentucky in 1951, 11 from Mississippi State in 1944, seven from Missouri in 2001, 13 from Oklahoma in 1988, nine from Ole Miss in 1968 and 1971, seven from South Carolina in 2009 and 2013, 10 from Tennessee in 2002, 10 from Texas A&M in 1976 and six from Vanderbilt in 1952 and 1959. The top drafts for Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Texas A&M predate their time in the SEC. As SEC members, the Razorbacks’ top showing has been six picks in 2004 and 2008. For Missouri, it’s six in 2015 and 2024. For Texas A&M, it’s seven in 2019. Oklahoma and Texas are participating in their first drafts as SEC members this week.

16 SEC players were chosen in the sixth round of the 2021 NFL Draft. That’s the most players from the conference chosen in one round in the draft’s history. Fifteen SEC players were picked in the first round and the third round of the 2020 draft. There have been 33 rounds that have contained at least 10 SEC players. Last year, 11 SEC players were picked in the first round, eight in second, six in the third, seven in the fourth, eight in the fifth, 14 in the sixth and five in the seventh.

17 NFL drafts have featured an SEC member as the top producer of picks. Georgia and Texas are expected to contend for the title at the 2025 NFL Draft. An SEC member has led the draft in selections in 2023 (Alabama and Georgia with 10 players apiece), 2022 (Georgia with 15), 2021 (Alabama, tied with Ohio State, with 10), 2020 (LSU with 14), 2019 (Alabama with 10), 2018 (Alabama with 12), 2014 (LSU with nine), 2012 (Alabama with eight), 2010 (Florida with nine), 2007 (Florida with seven), 2003 (Florida and Tennessee, tied with Miami, with eight), 2000 (Tennessee with nine), 1999 (Florida, tied with Ohio State, with eight), 1989 (Auburn with 10), 1978 (Florida with 10), 1962 (LSU and Ole Miss, tied with Colorado, Michigan and Penn State, with seven) and 1951 (Kentucky and Tulane with nine).

18 Consecutive drafts have had more players selected from the SEC than from any other conference. In 2024, the SEC provided 59 selections, with the Pac-12 next with 43. The most recent draft in which the SEC did not provide the most players came in 2006, when the Big Ten had 41 players picked and the SEC 37. The SEC’s draft-pick total and the runner-up in the previous years of the streak include:

• 2007: SEC 41, Big Ten 32
• 2008: SEC 35, ACC 33
• 2009: SEC 37, ACC 33
• 2010: SEC 49, Big Ten 34
• 2011: SEC 38, ACC 35
• 2012: SEC 42, Big Ten 41
• 2013: SEC 63, ACC 30
• 2014: SEC 49, ACC 42
• 2015: SEC 54, ACC 47
• 2016: SEC 51, Big Ten 47
• 2017: SEC 53, ACC 43
• 2018: SEC 53, ACC 45
• 2019: SEC 64, Big Ten 40
• 2020: SEC 63, Big Ten 48
• 2021: SEC 65, Big Ten 44
• 2022: SEC 65, Big Ten 48
• 2023: SEC 63, Big Ten 55

65 SEC players were selected in the 2021 and 2022 NFL drafts. That’s tied for the most players that any conference has had picked in a single draft. With the additions of Oklahoma and Texas to the conference’s tally, the SEC is expected to surpass the record in 2025, even though neither Mississippi State nor Vanderbilt is expected to produce a pick.

73 Consecutive NFL drafts have included at least one player from Florida, the longest streak in SEC history. The Gators have been represented in every NFL Draft since 1952, when the Detroit Lions started the streak by choosing C Carroll McDonald in the 13th round. The second-longest active draft streak for SEC teams isn’t even half as long as Florida’s current streak: Georgia has had a player selected in 32 consecutive drafts. LSU has had at least one player selected in each of the past 31 drafts, Oklahoma for 29, Arkansas for a school-record 29, Auburn for 21, Missouri for 20, Texas A&M 17, Alabama 16, Mississippi State for 15, South Carolina for seven, Kentucky for six, Tennessee for five and Ole Miss for four. Vanderbilt did not have a player drafted in 2024.

92 Alabama players have been selected in the past 10 NFL drafts. That’s the most from an SEC program in a 10-year period. The Crimson Tide’s draft total from 2015 through 2024 surpassed the record of 90, which had been set by the Alabama draft classes of 2012 through 2021 and equaled by the Crimson Tide’s draft total from 2014 through 2023. Alabama will need eight players picked in 2025 to break the 10-year record again.

232 Consecutive rounds of the NFL Draft have included at least one SEC player. The most recent round without an SEC selection was the second in 1993. Since that round, at least two SEC players have been picked in every round except four.

257 Players will be selected in the 2025 NFL Draft. The final one receives the nickname Mr. Irrelevant. An SEC player has been Mr. Irrelevant 10 times. The SEC’s Mr. Irrelevants have been Tennessee C Lamar Leachman in 1955, Tennessee B Tommy Bronson in 1958, Georgia DT Donald Chumley in 1985, LSU DB Norman Jefferson in 1987, Kentucky LB Marty Moore in 1994, Alabama DB Ramzee Robinson in 2007, South Carolina PK Ryan Succop in 2009, South Carolina TE Justice Cunningham in 2013, Ole Miss QB Chad Kelly in 2017, Georgia LB Tae Crowder in 2020 and Alabama S Jaylen Key in 2024.

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This look at the SEC’s draft numbers includes only players picked in the regular NFL Draft — no special supplemental, expansion, non-NFL or separate dispersal drafts are included in the tabulations. For Arkansas and South Carolina, which joined the league in 1992, the numbers include players drafted since 1993, unless noted. For former member Georgia Tech, players drafted from 1936 to 1964 are included. For former member Tulane, it’s through the 1966 draft. Missouri and Texas A&M have provided SEC players for the past 12 drafts. Oklahoma and Texas are providing players as SEC members for the first time in the 2025 draft. Former SEC member Sewanee has had one player drafted — RB William Johnson by the Falcons in 1966, long after the school left the conference following the 1940 season.

The NFL Draft starts on Thursday with the first round. The second and third rounds are set for Friday, with the remaining four rounds on Saturday. ABC, ESPN and NFL Network will televise the draft, starting at 7 p.m. CDT Thursday, 6 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Saturday.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.