As you point out above, four Bulldogs were drafted during the first seven rounds of the draft. Marcus Howard (161st pick – Indianapolis Colts), Thomas Brown (172nd pick – Atlanta Falcons), Chester Adams (222nd pick – Chicago Bears) and Brandon Coutu (235th pick – Seattle Seahawks.)

And, since the NFL draft 5 more have signed free agent contracts with NFL Football teams :

Three of the former Bulldogs signed with three teams from the NFC. Brandon Miller of Colquitt signed a contract with the Atlanta Falcons, Kregg Lumpkin of Lithonia signed with the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks picked up Kelin Johnson of Daytona Beach, Fla.

Two other Georgia lettermen signed contracts with a pair of AFC teams. Sean Bailey of Alpharetta signed with the Kansas City Chiefs and Fernando Velasco of Wrens signed a deal with the Tennessee Titans.

9 UGA Bulldogs with a shot to make their teams’ 53-man rosters.

In a season in which UGA lost no starters compared to every other football team in America.

These 9 join the NFL representing a college football program which already found only 3 college football programs in all of America with more than UGA in the NFL.

If that is not exciting news for Coach Richt’s recruits who have committed for 2009 already, I do not know what is exciting.

Note please that only 3 other college football programs have more players in the NFL than UGA. Only Michigan, Ohio State and Florida State have more than The Georgia Bulldogs 37 on NFL Opening Day Rosters last season. None in The SEC have more than UGA.

The AJ-C tried to report that Georgia Tech would have more Drafted in the NFL Draft this season than UGA. In fact, 3 Tech players were drafted to the 4 for UGA. Tech has a grand total of 19 on NFL rosters today to UGA’s 55. Not all the 55 will make the Opening Day 53-man Rosters this Fall. But, then again not all the 19 Tech will either.

In the 11-year run of being the only college football program in America to be ranked in every single Final AP Poll every season back to 1997, Georgia has established itself as a program who plays tough schedules and wins games against Top 25 Ranked Teams.

This is what I believe to be why so many top high school football players nationwide want to play at UGA. They like playing tough schedules. They like the chance to be in the NFL, as a result.

Title ? What’s a title ? If we play the 7th toughest schedule last season and end up Number 2 in the Final AP Poll, and this year’s schedule looks even tougher, then we have the title I want - as I don’t care about Ohio State playing such easy opponents or Southern Cal last year too for example. I’m happy and content.

Florida was 1-4 last year against the Final AP Poll Top 25 teams, for example. Georgia was 3-1.

We lock up the Number 4 state in producing high school football players who go on to the NFL, the state of Georgia. The states California, Florida, Texas and then Georgia are the top states for producing high school football players who go on to play in the NFL.

Coach Richt has also secured key top high school football recruits nationally.

15 different states are represented on our roster.

UGA football players from Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Virginia, Kansas, Illinois, New Jersey, Missouri and California were all listed on the 2007-2008 UGA Roster.