Things were the same and as the outdoor helmet rack suggests they were different as Dartmouth kicked off spring football practice yesterday on Memorial Field. Visit BGA Premium to read all about it.
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For the second year in a row the FCS finished with just six selections in the NFL draft. That's ties the low-water mark set by the subdivision last year. Here are the picks:
ROUND 1
49ers – QB Trey Lance, North Dakota State
ROUND 2
Titans – OT Dillon Radunz, North Dakota State
ROUND 3
Bills – OT Spencer Brown, Northern Iowa
ROUND 4
Cowboys – LB Jabril Cox, North Dakota State (grad transfer to LSU)
Giants – DE Elerson Smith, Northern Iowa
Rams – CB Robert Rochell, Central Arkansas
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Given that the Ivy League did not play last fall (or this spring) there were no Ancient Eight players being seriously discussed as potential draft choices. Those who might have had a shot either opted to return and finish their careers this fall or went the grad transfer route like Dartmouth's Drew Estrada to Baylor.
Here are the Ivy League draft picks since 2000 with the round (overall pick number), position, school and NFL team that chose them:
2000
4 (119) LB Isaiah Kacyvenski, Harvard (Seattle)
2001
7 (222) OT Dennis Norman, Princeton (Seattle)
7 (223) S Than Merrill, Yale (Tampa Bay)
7 (224) TE Eric Johnson, Yale (San Francisco)
2002
3 (78) OT Jeff Hatch, Penn (N.Y. Giants)
2004
6 (181) TE Nate Lawrie, Yale (Tampa Bay)
7 (228) TE Casey Cramer, Dartmouth
2005
7 (250) QB Ryan Fitzpatrick, Harvard (St. Louis)
2006
6 (176) OT Kevin Boothe, Cornell (Oakland)
2007
4 (116) LS Zak DeOssie, Brown (N.Y. Giants)
2010
7 (241) DL David Howard, Brown (Tennessee)
2011
7 (223) FB Shane Bannon, Yale (Kansas City)
2013
4 (122) OL JC Tretter, Cornell (Green Bay)
4 (130) TE Kyle Juszczyk, Harvard (Baltimore)
7 (207) DT Mike Catapano, Princeton (Kansas City)
2014
5 (158) DT Caraun Reid, Princeton (Detroit)
2016
4 (138) TE Seth Devalve, Princeton (Cleveland)
5 (170) OT Cole Toner, Harvard (Arizona)
2018
5 (144) WR Justin Watson, Penn (Tampa Bay)
6 (200) LB Foyesade Oluokun, Yale (Atlanta
And no, that's not a typo newbies. Ivy Leaguers did go back-to back-to back in the seventh round of the 2001 draft. And yes, Tampa Bay drafted back-to-back Ivy League tight ends (one begin Dartmouth's Casey Cramer) in 2004.
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Hot Rod Charlie, the horse owned in part by a handful of former Brown football players who graduated in 2015, finished third in the Kentucky Derby, a head behind Mandaloun, who was a half length behind winner Medina. The horse the Ivy Leaguers nicknamed "Chuck" edged pre-race favorite Essential Quality by a head and paid $5.20 to show.
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EXTRA POINT
Heading off to yesterday's Dartmouth football practice I reached into a little wicker basket in our mud room where I dump my watch when I come in the house. In the picture below the watch I usually wear (when I have to wear a watch) is on the left. Next to it are a couple others that I hang from my belt, computer bag, backpack or elsewhere when I need a watch and don't want one on my wrist. Any of the three would have been fine yesterday except . . .
. . . Except it's 9:10 in the morning as I write this and if you can read the time on the watches it's different – and wrong – on all three. The batteries died on each one sometime in the past year and I didn't realize it until I grabbed them yesterday. I guess time really does stop during a pandemic.
