A breakdown of NFL draftees from the SWAC and MEAC
According to STATS, this was the first year in the NFL's common draft era, which began in 1967, that no players from the Southwestern Athletic Conference or Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference were selected in the NFL draft. The two leagues, which are comprised of historically black colleges and universities, have produced hundreds of NFL players. Here is a year-by-year breakdown of how many players were drafted from the SWAC and MEAC (combined) each season.
1967 20
1968 31
1969 33
1970 30
1971 28
1972 32
1973 25
1974 23
1975 20
1976 25
1977 8
1978 15
1979 6
1980 15
1981 14
1982 10
1983 12
1984 8
1985 8
1986 8
1987 9
1988 15
1989 14
1990 10
1991 12
1992 20
1993 7
1994 10
1995 9
1996 11
1997 9
1998 6
1999 4
2000 11
2001 3
2002 2
2003 6
2004 2
2005 5
2006 3
2007 3
2008 2
2009 1
2010 1
2011 4
2012 1
2013 2
2014 0