An AP News Analysis
By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -Throughout the college football season, the glory goes to the quarterbacks, the running backs and receivers.
At the NFL draft, the guys who do the tackling, blocking and defending got their due.
Before two of college football’s cover boys from 2009 – Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen and Stanford running back Toby Gerhart – were drafted Friday in the middle of the second round of the NFL draft, six more linemen (four defensive and two offensive) came off the board.
That followed a first round in which a total of seven players who man the marquee offensive positions were selected in comparison to six offensive linemen, nine defensive linemen and seven defensive backs.
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