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2020 NFL Draft: 10 small-school prospects who are on Senior Bowl’s radar

By Bryan Perez

MOBILE, AL - JANUARY 27: Ito Smith #25 of the South team is tackled by Greg Gilmore #94 of the South team and Isaac Yiadom #20 during the second half of the Reese's Senior Bowl at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on January 27, 2018 in Mobile, Alabama. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)
MOBILE, AL - JANUARY 27: Ito Smith #25 of the South team is tackled by Greg Gilmore #94 of the South team and Isaac Yiadom #20 during the second half of the Reese's Senior Bowl at Ladd-Peebles Stadium on January 27, 2018 in Mobile, Alabama. (Photo by Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) /
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The Senior Bowl revealed 10 small-school prospects for the 2020 NFL draft they’ll be keeping a close eye on this fall.

The NFL Draft calendar is generally comprised of a series of offseason events that combine to help form a  prospect’s final grade, the majority of which results from the body of work he’s put on tape during his collegiate career.

Those draft events include the NFL Combine and college pro days, but before either of those get underway, the annual Reese’s Senior Bowl is the first opportunity for a prospect to generate buzz about their draft stock.

The Senior Bowl is held every year in late-January in Mobile, Alabama and has become a must-do trip for any draft or football fan.

The all-star game underwent a big change in 2019 when former NFL scout Jim Nagy was named its executive director, replacing former NFL GM Phil Savage who’d held the position for many years and did a fantastic job raising the game’s standards.

Nagy arguably one-upped him this year and produced one of the best Senior Bowl alumni classes in recent history.

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One of the really special things about the Senior Bowl is its ability to put small-school prospects on the radar. It offers those players their first opportunity to face players from bigger and more well-known programs. If they do well? Their stock soars.

Nagy, who’s especially great because of how interactive he is on Twitter, shared a cluster of 10 small-school prospects who the Senior Bowl will be watching closely this fall. Which means you should be, too:

Billy McCrary, RB, Abilene Christian

Kyle Dugger, Safety, Lenoir Rhyne University

Antonio Gandy-Golden, WR, Liberty

James Robinson, RB, Illinois State

Jacob Knipp, QB, Northern Colorado

Manny Patterson, CB, Maine

Jonas Griffith, LB, Indiana State

Chase Vinatieri, K, South Dakota State

Donte Olson, LB, Montana

Michael Bandy, WR, University of San Diego

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