18 Small Schoolers are in the Super Bowl
At NFL Draft Diamonds we love to focus on small school football players, and we wanted to shine the light on the 18 small schoolers playing in tonight’s Super Bowl. We have interviewed many of them and I wanted to take the time to recognize the players in the big game. While there are 18 small schoolers remember this stat too, a combined 24 players on the Rams and Patriots active rosters originally entered the league as undrafted free agents.
New England Patriots
- Keion Crossen – DB – Western Carolina
- Keionta Davis – DL – Tennessee Chattanooga
- James Develin – FB – Brown
- Chris Hogan – WR – Monmouth
- Ramon Humber – LB – North Dakota State
- Derek Rivers – LB – Youngstown State
Damoun Patterson – WR – Youngstown State * (PS)
Los Angeles Rams
- Marqui Christian – S – Midwestern State
- Jamil Demby – OG – Maine
- Samson Ebukam – DL – Eastern Washington
- John Franklin-Myers – DL – Stephen F. Austin
- Kha’Darel Hodge – WR – Prairie View A&M
- Matt Longacre – DL – Northwest Missouri State
- Ethan Westbrooks – DL – West Texas A&M
- Greg Zuerlein – K – Missouri Western State University
- Morgan Fox – DL – Colorado State Pueblo * (IR)
- Cooper Kupp – WR – Eastern Washington * (IR)
- Aaron Neary – OL – Eastern Washington * (PS)
NFL Draft Diamonds was created to assist the underdogs playing the sport. We call them diamonds in the rough. My name is Damond Talbot, I have worked extremely hard to help hundreds of small school players over the past several years, and will continue my mission. We have several contributors on this site, and if they contribute their name and contact will be in the piece above. You can email me at nfldraftdiamonds@gmail.com