The epitaph of “The highs are highs, and the lows are lows” has certainly applied to Northwestern Football since the beginning of Pat Fitzgerald’s tenure in 2006. The same can be said about the Wildcats’ pattern of players being selected in the NFL Draft.
After one of the most successful campaigns in program history in 2020, three ‘Cats were taken last April, including Rashawn Slater and Greg Newsome in Round 1. However, tearing the page a year forward provided a much more bleak outlook: NU was the only school in the Big Ten to not have a player selected, marking the second time in three years that Fitzgerald didn’t produce any draft picks.