The NFL design of 2025 is just over a week, with 257 players who see their dreams become reality. Of course they would not have been there without sub -aid, because strong support systems help to convert NFL Players
Head coaches of the University Football play a strong role in those support systems. Until the emergency situation of the transfer portal in recent years, the vast majority of the NFL players only played for one college coach, who served as one of the most influential figures for them for the benefits.
Over the years there have been head coaches of the subcollege that have done as strong as possible to form the players to become the best NFL prospects. Which coaching icons of the college have that been the best to do that?
Here is a look at the top 10 coaches that have produced the must -picks in the NFL history.
College -coaches that have produced the most NFL concept choices
T-10. John Mckay – 113
In the 1960s and 1970s, MCKAY changed USC into one of the powerhouses of the University Football and won four national championships during his 16 seasons as head coach. Running OJ Simpson and broad recipient Lynn Swan are the most striking players that McKay coached during his time at USC, where the first was the first to be prepared by the Buffal Steelers that add it when he helped them win four Super Bowl titles. Together with attacking Tackle Ron Yary, Simpson and Swann form the three players who are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame and were coached by Mckay.
T-10. Johnny Majors – 113
Majors is one of the few coaches on this list who has coached future NFL players in three or more schools. While during his five-year-old Stint in the state of Iowa I had to be in the state, I have a handful of NFL players coachet during his time, including six-time Pro Bowl-Linebacker Matt Blair. During his time at Pitt, Majors Most Notabry Tony Dorsett coached back, who was everywhere Pick everywhere in 1977 after winning the Heisman -Trophy and the Panthers led to a national title in 1976. Backs Terry McDaniel and Dale Carter also coached by Majors in Knoxville.
9. Mack Brown – 119
Many fans will probably associate Brown with his time in Texas. During his time in Austin, Brown Coached 14 future Pro Bowlers, such as Ricky Williams and Vince Young. Offensive Tackle Leonard Davis was set up as the highest among the former players of Brown in Texas, which was selected by the Arizona Cardinals with the second overall pick in 2001, but Brown also rose from players in the NFL from his time in North Carolina. Drake Maye and Josh Downs are only two of the dozens of former Tar Heels coached by Brown who got the NFL.
8. Bo Schembechler – 127
While Shembechler built a Big Ten -power patient during his 21 seasons as Michigan’s head coach, he also coached talent that then played in the NFL. For a long time attacking tackle than Dieraff was the only Pro Football Hall of the group of the group, but the former Schembechler players became first round, including Jim Harbaugh and Desmond Howard.
7. Lou Holtz – 129
Holtz coached future NFL stars in three of his four stops as head coach of the University Football. Defensive Tackle Dan Hampton, who coached Holtz in Arkansas, became a four-time pro-bowler who helped the Chicago Bears to win a super bowl. Edge Rusher John Abraham, who played under Holtz in South Carolina, was one of the best pass-hers in the NFL in the early in the 1920s, with five Pro Bowl nods. Wide recipient Tim Brown, however, is the most striking player that Coachet was by Holtz at the university and after his time at Notre Dame became a Hall of Famer.
6. Bear Bryant – 130
Understandabry, Miss Connect Bryant in Alabama, but before he was the Crimson Tide Coachet, Bryant coached the Heisman winner and triple NFL All-Pro that John David Crow went back on Texas A&M. During his time in Alabama, Bryant coached five future Pro Football Hall of Famers, including Quartbacks Joe Namath and Ken Stable. Namath was actually drawn up by the then St. Louis Cardinals with the 12th pick in the NFL design of 1965 and by the New York Jets with the number 1 general choice in the AFL concept that same year, choose to play for the latter.
5. Woody Hayes – 164
In addition to winning five championships in Ohio State, Hayes coached a bunch of buckeyes who then played in the NFL. Thirty of his players in the state of Ohio went on to get picks from the first round. Three of his former players also became Pro Football Hall of Famers, with Jim Parker, Paul Warfield and Dick Lebeau who achieved Tose Honors.
4. Tom Osborne – 168
Just like Hayes did in Columbus, Osborne Lincoln, Nebraska, made a top spot for university football and a breeding ground for future NFL players. Nineteen from Osborne’s former players in Nebraska were first round picks in the NFL concept. In 1984, the first two choices of the Design Bo Cornhuskers, in which the New England Patriots Irving Fryar selected at number 1 and the Houston Oilers Dean Steinkuhler Named at number 2. Seven years later, former Nebraska -stars Bruce Pickens and Mike Croel were selected in the first four choices. Will Shields is Osborne’s only player coach that is included in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
3. Nick Saban – 173
Arguly No Coach is better at developing NFL talent in recent Yars than Saban. The old head coach of Alabama saw 44 of his former Crimson Tide players become picks of the first round (excluding those who passed), with Jihad Campbell, Tyler Booker and Jalen Milroe who compete to make Shil number this year. Twenty -five of the players who coached Saban in Alabama continued to become pro bowlers. Of course Saban had also stopped in Toledo, Michigan State and LSU. Muhsin Muhammad and Plaxic“ While Andrew Whitworth and Kyle Williams were the top that Saban coached in Baton Rouge.
2. Bobby Bowden – 184
If you claim, Dion Sanders will have to coach at least one future first round Pick, if not two, but he still has a long way to match the number of NFL concept choices that his college coach had. Bowden coached 35 first round picks during his illustrious term of office in the state of Florida, including Sanders, who was one of Bowden’s four former Seminoles players to make the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
1. Joe Paterno – 251
Year A, year Paterno NFL talent produced during his 56-season stint as head coach of Penn State. I had a total of 33 players in the first round picks, including Washing Arrington, Paul Postluszny and Tamba Hali later in his career. Three of the players he coached became Hall of Famers, because Jack Ham and Franco Harris were Hage parts of the Steelers’ Dynasty in the 1970s. Mike Munchak was the other Hall of Famer Paterno coached, while Ki-Jana Carter and Courtney Brown were the only Nittany Lions who were taken with the overall pick.
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