Bowl season and the college football playoff mean the NFL Draft is not terribly far away. The best way for viewers to begin preparing for draft season is to start with NFL draft projected players playing in bowl games before the draft ramp up.<\/p>\n
Bowl games and playoff games have benefits pertaining to draft eligible players. The competition is ramped up, the matchups are typically very solid, and any big contributions in bowl games could go a long way in improving players\u2019 draft stock before all-star bowls, the combine and pro days.<\/p>\n
No. 9 Alabama vs No. 8 Oklahoma is the first opportunity to see several projected NFL draft picks facing off against each other in a direct matchup. While previous games like Boise State vs Washington included a few players that could hear their names called, Oklahoma vs Alabama is the first game with a significant number of hopefuls.<\/p>\n
The Friday evening first round playoff game boasts 24 draft projected players. Short of a dedicated Edge or Defensive End, Alabama could almost field a starting lineup of draft projected players. With a shade under ten names on the list for Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
For easy viewing and to use as a resource in-game, these players will be listed based on their draft range projection. While specifying name, team and position.<\/p>\n
NFL Draft projected players for Alabama vs Oklahoma\u00a0<\/p>\n
First round projected players for Alabama vs Oklahoma<\/p>\n
QB Ty Simpson \u2013 Alabama (projection range: somewhere in Round 1)<\/p>\n
QB John Mateer \u2013 Oklahoma (projection range: between Rounds 1-2)<\/p>\n
OT Kayden Proctor \u2013 Alabama (projection range: between Rounds 1-2)<\/p>\n
DE R. Mason Thomas \u2013 Oklahoma (projection range: between Rounds 1-3)<\/p>\n
DT LT Overton \u2013 Alabama (projection range: between Rounds 1-2)<\/p>\n
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Second round projected players for Alabama vs Oklahoma<\/p>\n
WR Germie Bernard \u2013 Alabama (projection range: between Rounds 2-3)<\/p>\n
WR Deion Burks \u2013 Oklahoma (projection range: between Rounds 2-3)<\/p>\n
WR Isaiah Horton \u2013 Alabama (projection range: between Rounds 2-3)<\/p>\n
S Bray Hubbard \u2013 Alabama (projection range: between Rounds 2-3)<\/p>\n
S Keon Sabb \u2013 Alabama (projection range: between Rounds 2-3)<\/p>\n
CB Domani Jackson \u2013 Alabama (projection range: between Rounds 2-3)<\/p>\n
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Third round projected players for Alabama vs Oklahoma<\/p>\n
RB Jam Miller \u2013 Alabama (projected range: between Rounds 3-5)<\/p>\n
RB Jayden Ott \u2013 Oklahoma (projected range: between Rounds 3-5)<\/p>\n
WR Jayden Gibson \u2013 Oklahoma (projected range: between Rounds 3-4)<\/p>\n
TE Josh Cuevas \u2013 Alabama (projected range: between Rounds 3-4)<\/p>\n
OT Wilkin Fromby \u2013 Alabama (projected range: between Rounds 3-5)<\/p>\n
OT\/OG Febechi Nwaiwu \u2013 Oklahoma (projected range: between Rounds 3-5)<\/p>\n
C Parker Brailsford \u2013 Alabama (projected range: between Rounds 3-5)<\/p>\n
DT Gracen Halton \u2013 Oklahoma (projected range: between Rounds 3-4)<\/p>\n
S Peyton Bowen \u2013 Oklahoma (projected range: between Rounds 3-5)<\/p>\n
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Fourth round projected players for Alabama vs Oklahoma<\/p>\n
OG Jaeden Roberts \u2013 Alabama (projected range: between Rounds 4-6)<\/p>\n
DT Tim Keenan III \u2013 Alabama (projected range: between Rounds 4-6)<\/p>\n
OLB Deonte Lawson \u2013 Alabama (projected range: between Rounds 4-6)<\/p>\n
S Robert Spears-Jennings \u2013 Alabama (projected range: between Rounds 4-6)<\/p>\n
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Seventh round (or undrafted free agent) projected players for Alabama vs Oklahoma<\/p>\n
RB Richard Young \u2013 Alabama (projected range: between Round 7 and UFA)<\/p>\n
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Rankings and projections analysis is the combination of view hours as well as various rankings according to Walterfootball<\/a>, ESPN<\/a>\u00a0and DraftBuzz<\/a>. These projections were made six months in advance of the NFL Draft and are subject to change based on various draft season metrics and events yet to be conducted. This list also does not account for players who will return to their program or who may decide to leave early, who have not declared that as of yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n No 9 Alabama vs No 8 Oklahoma kicks off at 8:00pm ET today, Friday December 19th and will broadcast on ABC\/ESPN. \u00a0<\/p>\n More college football news:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bowl season and the college football playoff mean the NFL Draft is not terribly far away. The best…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-356366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}