Sentence examples for professional draft from inspiring English sources
Should they remain in college or declare for the professional draft?
By nightfall, the first seven rounds of the professional draft had been completed, six quarterbacks had been taken.
Last year's star, Manny Ramirez of George Washington, was the top pick of the Cleveland Indians in the professional draft.
During the 1980's, between 5 and 14 players a year left college early to enter the professional draft or went right from high school to the pros.
The coach who had never lost an underclassman to the professional draft suddenly had three turn aside the potential of a Duke degree for the professional ranks.
Jamal Crawford has been suspended from Michigan for writing a letter making himself available for the professional draft while still in high school.
The package includes proposals on organied competition before an athlete enters college, entering professional drafts, signing contracts and competing with professionals.
A National Collegiate Athletic Association committee has recommended that underclassmen who make themselves eligible for professional drafts be allowed to resume their college careers if they change their minds about becoming professionals, whether or not they have been drafted.
And that has led some to take a critical look at the N.C.A.A.'s policy toward athletes who seek insurance against serious injuries, especially those players who are projected to be high selections in professional drafts.
"Speaking for the colleges, it seems to me they would be happy if there were football and basketball developmental leagues," Brand said, while reiterating his concern for the likely fallout, for what he called "the lost generation," young athletes manipulated by hustlers into professional drafts and out of the chance for a college education.
It is like the other professional drafts, with teams choosing amateur players who break into wide smiles when their names are called, even if — rather than being from U.C.L.A. or Tennessee — they come from the Peterborough Petes, MODO Hockey Ornskoldsvik or the University of North Dakota.
