The 2017 NFL Draft starts Thursday in Philadelphia and is sure to feature many Big Ten stars finding out where their professional careers will begin. Programs such as Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Nebraska are among the top schools in the nation at producing NFL talent. Which players have been the best NFL draft picks from those schools? Ohio State has had the third-most players play in the NFL, behind only Notre Dame and Southern Cal. The Buckeyes have had 74 more players reach the NFL than rival Michigan, which is fourth in the country. Eight former Buckeyes also are enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Three of them won’t appear on this list because they weren’t part of the traditional NFL draft. Lou Groza and Bill Willis were not drafted, while Cris Carter entered the league through the supplemental draft in 1987. Dante Lavelli returned from serving in the military…
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