Hokies get set for the 2019 NFL Draft

BLACKSBURG – The 2019 NFL Draft begins on Thursday night in Nashville with the first round kicking off at 8 p.m. ET. Rounds 2-3 will begin on Friday, April 26 with former Virginia Tech standout and Pro Bowl S Kam Chancellor announcing Seattle's third-round selection.
 
T Yosuah Nijman turned in some impressive numbers at the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine. Nijman's 4.50-second short shuttle time ranked second among offensive linemen, while his 114.0-inch broad jump tied for the fifth-best mark. The Maplewood, N.J. native also put up 27 reps on the bench press, coming just one rep shy of landing in the top 10 in that category. DT Ricky Walker is also another top candidate from Virginia Tech to be drafted or offered a free agent contract.  
 
YOSUAH NIJMAN – 2019 NFL COMBINE
BENCH PRESS – 27 reps
BROAD JUMP – 114.0 inches
20-YARD SHUTTLE – 4.5 seconds
3-CONE DRILL – 8.07 seconds
 
2019 NFL DRAFT FACTS & FIGURES
WHAT:              84th Annual National Football League Player Selection Meeting.
WHERE:            Nashville, Tennesee
WHEN:              8:00 p.m. ET, Thursday, April 25 (Round 1)
7:00 p.m. ET, Friday, April 26 (Rounds 2-3)
Noon ET, Saturday, April 28 (Rounds 4-7)
 
Round 1: 10 minutes per selection.
Round 2: Seven minutes per selection.
Rounds 3 through 6, including Compensatory Picks: Five minutes per selection. Round 7, including
Compensatory Picks: Four minutes per selection.
 

Catch me on stage on April 26th making the Round 3 selection for the @seahawks at the 2019 #NFLDraft! See you in Nashville! pic.twitter.com/X6J78SADGa

— Kameron Chancellor (@KamChancellor) April 4, 2019

 
VIRGINIA TECH NFL DRAFT FAST FACTS

• Dating back to 1970, Virginia Tech and Miami are the only current ACC schools to produce a pair of No. 1 overall selections – DE Bruce Smith (Buffalo – 1985) and QB Michael Vick (Atlanta – 2001).
• Tremaine Edmunds (16th overall – Buffalo) and Terrell Edmunds (28th overall – Pittsburgh) became the only set of brothers both selected in the first round of the same NFL Draft in 2018.  
• The selection of the Edmunds brothers in 2018 upped Tech's all-time total of first-round picks to 13.
• At least one Virginia Tech player has been selected every season dating back to 1993.
• Tremaine Edmunds became the second-youngest player drafted in the common era (since 1967) at 19 years, 11 months and 25 days. DT Amobi Okoye (D1-Houston) in 2007 was selected at 19 years, 10 months and 19 days old).

• Virginia Tech is the only school that has been home to four brothers who have all been selected in the NFL Draft – the Fuller brothers.
  • S Vincent Fuller (D4-Tennessee)   108th overall in 2005
  • WR Corey Fuller (D6-Detroit)        171st overall in 2013
  • CB Kyle Fuller (D1-Chicago)          14th overall in 2014
  • CB Kendall Fuller (D3-Washington) 84th overall in 2015
     
• Tech's most prolific draft years all came during the Frank Beamer era with a record nine Hokies selected in the 2006 NFL Draft, headlined by a pair of second-round selections in DB Jimmy Williams (37th overall – Atlanta) and DE Darryl Tapp (63rd overall – Seattle).
• The Hokies had eight players selected in both 2002 and 2008.

VIRGINIA TECH ALL-TIME FIRST-ROUND DRAFTEES