PRINCETON, N.J. -- Twenty Ivies have been preparing for a professional football opportunity ahead of the 2020 NFL Draft. For the first time ever, the seven-round affair will be held in a completely virtual format from Thursday, April 23, to Saturday, April 25, due to the coronavirus pandemic. 
 
The Ivy League has produced 132 all-time NFL draft picks, most recently Penn’s Justin Watson (5th round, 144th overall pick) and Yale’s Foye Oluokun (6th round, 200th overall pick) in 2018. Twelve Ivies received NFL looks as undrafted free agents following the 2019 NFL Draft, with four—Dartmouth’s Matt Kaskey and Princeton’s Stephen Carlson, Jesper Horsted and John Lovett—earning NFL roster spots during the 2019 season. 
 
In total, 26 Ivies appeared on NFL rosters in 2019, headlined by four-time Pro Bowl fullback Kyle Juszczyk out of Harvard, three-time Super Bowl champion fullback James Develin out of Brown, two-time Super Bowl champion and two-time Pro Bowl long snapper Zak DeOssie out of Brown and 2019 Super Bowl champion tight end/fullback Lovett out of Princeton. 
 
Eighteen Ivies have lifted the Lombardi Trophy, combining for 25 Super Bowl championships all-time, including 11 since 2008. 
 
This year’s crop of NFL hopefuls includes 17 2019 All-Ivy honorees, two Bushnell Cup recipients, a two-time STATS FCS Buck Buchanan Award finalist, a 2019 William V. Campbell Trophy finalist and a 2019 STATS FCS Walter Payton Award finalist. 
 
Five Ivies—Dartmouth’s Niko Lalos and Isiah Swann, Princeton’s Kevin Davidson and Yale’s Dieter Eiselen and Kurt Rawlings—competed in marquee college football all-star games following the conclusion of their senior campaigns. Lalos was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) for Team Aina at the revived Hula Bowl. Swann, Davidson and Rawlings appeared in the 95th East-West Shrine Bowl, while Eiselen featured in the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl. 
 
Davidson, likely to be the first Ivy off the board, was the lone Ivy to earn an invite to the NFL Scouting Combine. 

 

Princeton’s Davidson (No. 29), Dartmouth’s Swann (No. 57), Brown’s Michael Hoecht (No. 65), Yale’s Eiselen (No. 89) and Dartmouth’s Lalos (No. 94) each made Draft Scout’s list of the Top 100 Small School Prospects. 

Twelve-or-more Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) prospects have been selected in each NFL Draft since 1993, when the event was condensed from 12 to seven rounds. There have been 84 FCS draftees over the past five seasons—2015 (17), 2016 (20), 2017 (15), 2018 (19) and 2019 (13). 
 
The NFL Draft commences at 8 p.m. ET on Thursday, April 23, with Round 1 selections. Rounds 2 and 3 will follow, beginning at 7 p.m. ET on Friday, April 24. Rounds 4-7 will conclude the draft on Saturday, April 25, with coverage beginning at 12 p.m. ET. All seven rounds of the NFL Draft will air on ABC, ESPN and the NFL Network. 
 
IVY LEAGUE NFL DRAFT PROSPECTS
Michael Hoecht, Brown (DL – Oakwood, Ohio) 
Daniel DeLorenzi, Columbia (DL – Cedar Grove, N.J.) 
Benjamin McKeighan, Columbia (DB – Scottsdale, Ariz.) 
Rory Schlageter, Columbia (TE – Maplewood, N.J.) 
Mo Bradford, Cornell (LB – Hot Springs, Ark.) 
Harold Coles, Cornell (RB – Erie, Pa.) 
David Jones, Cornell (DB – Sugar Land, Texas) 
Jelani Taylor, Cornell (DB – Beecher, Mich.) 
Jared Gerbino, Dartmouth (QB/TE – Rush, N.Y.) 
Hunter Hagdorn, Dartmouth (WR – Manvel, Texas) 
Niko Lalos, Dartmouth (DL – Akron, Ohio) 
Zach Sammartino, Dartmouth (OL – Pittsburgh, Pa.) 
Isiah Swann, Dartmouth (DB – Queen Creek, Ariz.) 
Karekin Brooks, Penn (RB – Marietta, Ga.) 
Graham Adomitis, Princeton (TE – Pittsburgh, Pa.) 
Kevin Davidson, Princeton (QB – Danville, Calif.) 
Ryan Quigley, Princeton (RB – Lansdale, Pa.) 
Dieter Eiselen, Yale (OL – Stellenbosch, South Africa) 
Reed Klubnik, Yale (WR – Austin, Texas) 
Kurt Rawlings, Yale (QB – Bel Air, Md.)