With 37 of its players selected in last weekend's NFL Draft, the SEC had the most selections of any conference in the nation. The ACC was second with 33, followed by the Pac-10 with 32. The Big 12 and the Big Ten each had 28, and the Big East had 27. The Mountain West Conference had 16 players selected while the Western Athletic Conference and Conference USA had 10 each. 

The SEC has now led or tied for the lead in the most selections in an
NFL Draft in 10 of the last 12 years, including the last three drafts. 

Eleven of the 12 SEC schools had at least one player selected in this past weekend's draft. South Carolina led the SEC with seven players selected followed by Georgia and LSU with six each,  and Alabama and Ole Miss with four each.

Florida had just three players selected in the draft: receiver Percy Harvin was a first-round selection, receiver Louis Murphy went in the fourth and TE Cornelius Ingram was a fifth-round selection.

Since 1990, the SEC has had 739 players selected in NFL Drafts, the most in the nation. The league had eight players selected in the first round this year, which was tied for the fourth highest in SEC history.  In 2007, the SEC had 11 players selected in the first round, 2005 and 1998 had 10 each, 1999 had eight in the first round. 

Since the league expanded in 1992,  the SEC has had 107 first round
selections in 17 drafts, an average of 6.29 selections per draft.