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    COLLEGIANS PREFERRED

    Jul 02, 2019 4 minutes
    by J.J. COOPER, CARLOS COLLAZO AND JARED MCMASTERS

    The 2019 draft reinforced the notion that teams are prioritizing college players to a higher degree than ever before.

    Fifty-one of the 78 total selections on the first day came out of four-year college programs, or roughly 65.4 percent of the draft pool selected before the third round. That is the second-highest rate of four-year players selected in that portion of the draft. Only the 1981 draft (69.2 percent) was higher.

    But it’s not just the top of the draft in which teams have begun prioritizing and drafting college players.

    Since the late 1990s, there has been a steadily increasing trend of teams selecting more and more college players, and it comes

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