ESPN.com · Apr 27, 2016
How do teams fare after losing 10 or more players to draft?
Notre Dame sent 10 players to the NFL scouting combine in February. The Irish may have that many former players -- perhaps even more, given Matthias Farley's strong pro day -- taken in this weekend’s NFL draft. The last time the program had 10 draft selections was in 1994, when 10 former Irish players were selected.
Doomsday for the 2016 Notre Dame team, right?
Not so fast.
Bill Landis of Cleveland.com compiled data of the 10 programs since 2000 that have lost 10-plus players to the draft in a given year, and the aftermath isn’t all that bad. In the season with those drafted players, those teams went a combined 115-16 (.878). In the season after, those teams went 100-29 (.775).