The NFL draft these days are all about the early entries as they tend to dominate the early rounds of the draft.  The reason is simple…money!  There is so much money given to rookies these days the top talents have little incentive to stay in school if projected to go in the first few rounds.  Often there are other less obvious reasons that force a player to come out early which usually stems around family having financial problems or the player not cutting it in the classroom.

Ultimately it comes down to the question of can a player improve his draft status by staying another year.  Michael Crabtree is going to be the same height, have the same vertical jump and run basically the same 40 this year as he will next year.  His production can not get much better so it makes little sense to not come out.

Here is the list of the position players who currently have declared they are leaving school early…

QB

Nate Davis – Ball State

Josh Freeman – Kansas State

Mark Sanchez – USC

Matthew Stafford – Georgia

RB

Donald Brown – UConn

Glenn Coffee – Alabama

Shonn Green – Iowa

P.J. Hill – Wisconsin

LeSean McCoy – Pitt

Knowshon Moreno – Georgia

Chris Wells – Ohio State

WR

Kenny Britt – Rutgers

Jeremy Childs – Boise State

Austin Collie – BYU

Michael Crabtee – Texas Tech

Percy Harvin – Florida

Darrius Heyward-Bey – Maryland

Jeremy Maclin – Missouri

Hakeem Nicks – North Carolina

Kevin Ogletree – Virgina

TE

James Casey – Rice

Jared Cook – South Carolina

Andrew Davie – Arkansas

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