O out of 259: No HBCU athletes chosen in NFL draft
Fred Jeter | 5/6/2021, 6 p.m.
HBCU athletes went 0-for- 259 picks in the seven-round NFL draft.
There were zero selections from any of the HBCU schools or conferences.
It didn’t help that the two HBCU Division I conferences, the MEAC and the SWAC, opted out of fall football seasons and played only limited spring seasons this year because of COVID-19.
The Division II CIAA and SIAC did not play at all this school year.
That said, only one player from an HBCU was drafted in 2020. Lachavious Simmons, an offensive lineman from Tennessee State University, was the 227th overall pick in 2020 by the Chicago Bears.
Tennessee State is an HBCU but plays in the Ohio Valley Conference. Four HBCU players were drafted in 2019 and three in 2018.
