FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1/22/16

96 PLAYERS GRANTED SPECIAL ELIGIBILITY FOR 2016 NFL DRAFT

11 additional players who have graduated also eligible for selection

The announced today the names of 96 players who have been granted special eligibility for the 2016 NFL Draft and 11 players who have fulfilled their degree requirements with eligibility remaining and are also eligible for selection in the April 28-30 draft in .

The following 11 players have in timely fashion under NFL rules officially notified the league office that they have fulfilled their degree requirements. Consequently, they are eligible for selection in the 2016 Draft:

Player Pos. College 1 K State 2 Travis Blanks LB Clemson 3 RB Clemson 4 Eric Enderson P 5 Austin Johnson DT Penn State 6 Keith Marshall RB Georgia 7 DB Ohio State 8 DE Eastern Kentucky 9 Michael Thomas WR Ohio State 10 Corey Tindal DB Marshall 11 Vincent Valentine DT Nebraska

Each of the 96 players granted special eligibility has met the league’s three-year eligibility rule and each has submitted a written application in which he renounced his remaining college football eligibility. The deadline for receiving applications was January 18.

The players granted special eligibility for the 2016 NFL Draft:

Player Pos. College 1 WR Oregon 2 Dominique Alexander LB Oklahoma 3 DB Clemson 4 DB Ohio State 5 WR Houston 6 RB Auburn 7 DB Ohio State 8 T UCLA 9 DT Baylor 10 G Bethune-Cookman 11 DE Ohio State 12 Tyler Boyd WR Pittsburgh 13 Daniel Braverman WR Western Michigan 14 Beniquez Brown LB Mississippi State 15 DB Miami 16 Kenny Clark DT UCLA 17 WR Baylor 18 Trenton Coles DB Duquesne 19 Alex Collins RB Arkansas 20 DT Nebraska 21 T Michigan State 22 WR South Carolina 23 Kamalei Correa DE Boise State 24 Su'a Cravens LB Southern California 25 Elijah Daniel DT Murray State 26 Terrell Davis LB British Columbia 27 DE Clemson 28 Thomas Duarte TE UCLA 29 RB Ohio State 30 LB Georgia 31 DB Tech 32 WR Notre Dame 33 QB California 34 T.J. Green DB Clemson 35 David Grinnage TE North Carolina State 36 Christian Hackenberg QB Penn State 37 DB Florida 38 T Louisiana State 39 RB Alabama 40 TE Arkansas 41 DT Michigan 42 WR Colorado State 43 TE Stanford 44 RB 45 DB Baylor 46 T Texas A&M 47 LB UCLA 48 QB Ohio State 49 Cayleb Jones WR Arizona 50 Chris Jones DT Mississippi State 51 DB Clemson 52 Denver Kirkland T Arkansas 53 Darius Latham DT Indiana 54 WR California 55 DE Clemson 56 LB Ohio State 57 Roger Lewis WR Bowling Green 58 Steve Longa LB Rutgers 59 QB Memphis 60 WR Ohio State 61 Alex McCalister DE Florida 62 Brett McMakin LB Northern Iowa 63 DB Florida 64 Yannick Ngakoue DE 65 DT Mississippi 66 Marquez North WR Tennessee 67 DE Oklahoma State 68 Paul Perkins RB UCLA 69 Joe Powell DB Globe 70 C.J. Prosise RB Notre Dame 71 DB Florida State 72 Alex Redmond G UCLA 73 Hassan Ridgeway DT Texas 74 A'Shawn Robinson DT Alabama 75 WR Florida 76 DB Louisiana State 77 K Southern Oregon 78 DB Oklahoma 79 G Oregon State 80 RB 81 LB Notre Dame 82 Tyrell Smith T Massachusetts 83 T Notre Dame 84 RB Florida 85 Ron Thompson DE Syracuse 86 WR Mississippi 87 T Mississippi 88 Quinn van Gylswyk K British Columbia 89 LB Utah State 90 Cleveland Wallace DB San Jose State 91 Dwayne Washington RB Washington 92 LB Vanderbilt 93 De'Runnya Wilson WR Mississippi State 94 DB West Virginia 95 LB Arizona 96 Avery Young T Auburn

The players granted special eligibility for the NFL Draft the past 10 years:

Year Players Granted Special Eligibility Year Players Granted Special Eligibility 2016 96 2011 56 2015 74 2010 53 2014 98 2009 46 2013 73 2008 53 2012 65 2007 40

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