Coming into the 2017 season, the Tech football roster was primarily comprised of relatively young players a few years away from considering the NFL leap and veterans who knew that the last game of the season would mark the end of their football careers. Three players were noted as potential professional level talents — Lawrence Austin, Lance Austin and Ricky Jeune — but not one of the three made the 336-man roster of players invited to the 2018 combine.
The Jackets are not exactly known for being a modern hotspot for NFL talent under the triple option offense, with less than two dozen Jackets drafted in the decade since Paul Johnson arrived, eight making it in the top three rounds.