The Big 12 lost 10 underclassmen to the NFL draft, seven of them All-Big 12 selections in 2015. When you add the departing seniors to those exiting early, the Big 12 is losing 25 of the 30 players who earned first-team All-Big 12 honors this season. That’s a ton of talent out the door.
The only players coming back from the league’s All-Big 12 team: Baker Mayfield, Samaje Perine, Blake Jarwin, Winston Dimel and Josh Carraway. Yep, only one defender.
This post was supposed to be a breakdown of the Big 12’s winners and losers for the draft deadline, but there are no winners to choose from this year.