With rosters being finalized, it also means we can see how many rookies ended up making it to the NFL, and all the usual suspects are well represented.The Ohio State Buckeyes led the way with 11 rookies from the 2026 Draft class on NFL rosters, followed by Texas A&M, which had 10 former Aggies make it to the league.Head Coach Ryan Day of the Ohio State Buckeyes waits to lead his team onto the filed before the game against the Ohio Bobcats at Ohio Stadium on September 13, 2025 in Columbus, Ohio.(Photo by Jason Mowry/Getty Images) (Jason Mowry/Getty Images)Those two make sense, considering they dominate the recruiting rankings year in and year out and both made the College Football Playoff this past season.Other mainstays like Alabama and Georgia were right behind the Aggies and Buckeyes with nine rookies on NFL rosters, but another team that hasn't even sniffed the CFP in the last several years was hilariously lumped in with the rest of these upper echelon college programs.THE 5 MOST DISAPPOINTING PRESEASON TOP-10 COLLEGE FOOTBALL TEAMS OF THE 21ST CENTURYThat's right, folks! The 4-8 Florida Gators produced a staggering nine players from their 2025 football team that ended up on 53-man rosters in the NFL.Talk about doing less with more, right?Florida Gators quarterback DJ Lagway (2) gestures before the snap against the Florida State Seminoles during the second half at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on Nov.
29, 2025.(Matt Pendleton/Imagn Images)And yes, there are some qualifiers that need to be thrown out there about these players.One is a long snapper, and while it's important to have a good long snapper, it doesn't exactly move the needle in the win-loss column.The other is Caleb Banks who, while being a first-round pick, only played in three games for Florida in 2025.But, when you couple that with the fact that a lot of Florida's best players weren't even draft eligible this past April - like All-SEC running back Jadan Baugh, Freshman All-SEC wideout Vernell Brown ...