Friday's Daily News 'n Notes: NFL Draft Edition - Central Georgia's prospects, the Falcons through three rounds, and more
Friday’s Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
The normal Daily News ‘n Notes will return Sunday
Central Georgia’s best
Around three dozen schools and a few hundred players add up to All-Central Georgia,2019. The players and coach of the year, and those who earned consideration, and three teams plus honorable mention.
Resumes, legitimacy, versatility, and information, and a chance to have some high school football on the brain for awhile.
Central Georgia’s NFL prospects still waiting
The camera’s red light went on in the Fromm household Friday night as the NFL Draft lingered on, Jake Fromm along with brothers Dylan and Tyler and dad Emerson were watching the draft.
The scene was likely pretty similar in different locations for Harrison Bryant (John Milledge), Quintez Cephus (Stratford), and Marquez Callaway (Warner Robins) as they watched the second and third rounds go by with no NFL team calling their names.
While disappointing, it wasn’t overly surprising.
Bryant was the No. 2 tight end by NFL.com, but watched players from Dayton and UCLA go in the third round after Notre Dame’s Cole Kmet went early in the second to Chicago. Bryant had a round three grade.
Ironically, the next two quarterbacks expected to be taken are former teammates, Fromm and Jacob Eason. Who goes first depends on who’s making the list.
Five quarterbacks have gone so far, four in the first round and Jalen Hurts of Oklahoma to Philadelphia in the second round. Fromm has a grade of 6.16, just behind Eason’s 6.25 and edging Hurts’ 6.14. Fromm’s projection is for the third or fourth round.
Readables on Central Georgia’s prospects
Look for Bryant to go fairly early in the fourth round, followed by Fromm (a lot of talk about the Patriots). Then Cephus and Callaway.
Seventeen wide receivers went in the first three rounds.
Cephus has a round 6 projection from NFL.com and Callaway’s road is predicted to be more tenuous as a seventh-round pick or high priority free agent.
Sunday and Monday will be busy days as NFL teams go after the undrafted free agents. And that’s as relevant as the draft, considering more such players saw action at least 40 percent of the time than did any drafted group except first-rounders in 2017.
About 31 percent of the first-game 53-man rosters in 2019 were undrafted, a total higher than the combined 24.3 percent of first- and second-round choices.
The final day of the draft starts at noon on Saturday with round four, Cincinnati up first with needs at tight end and wideout, among other places. The same goes for Washington, which is next.
Atlanta grabbed edge rusher Marlon Davidson of Auburn at 47th, 15th in the second round, and Temple center Matt Hennessy 78th, 14th in the third round. The Falcons have the 13th and 28th picks in the fourth round, and then are done until the middle of the seventh round.
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