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26 HBCU football players made NFL rosters in 2020, Down from years past

by
Damond Talbot
September 10, 2020

I am not sure if it is because of COVID-19 or what, but HBCU football players on NFL rosters are down. We broke down all the rosters this week to find out that only 26 players from HBCU schools are currently on NFL rosters. This does in fact include practice squads. Only 19 players are currently on active rosters. In 2019, 32 players made NFL rosters.

AFC

Buffalo Bills: 1

Miami Dolphins: 0
New England Patriots: 0
New York Jets: 0

Pittsburgh Steelers: 0
Cincinnati Bengals: 0
Cleveland Browns: 4 (1 PS, 1 IR)

Baltimore Ravens: 2 (1 PS)
Tennessee Titans: 0
Houston Texans: 1

Indianapolis Colts: 2
Jacksonville Jaguars: 0
Denver Broncos: 0

Kansas City Chiefs: 1
Las Vegas Raiders: 1
Los Angeles Chargers: 0

NFC

Dallas Cowboys: 0
Washington Football Team: 1

Philadelphia Eagles: 1
New York Giants: 0
Chicago Bears: 2 (1 PS)

Green Bay Packers: 0
Detroit Lions: 2 (1 PS)
Carolina Panthers: 2

New Orleans Saints: 2 (1 IR)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 2
Atlanta Falcons: 1 (1 PS)

Seattle Seahawks: 0
San Francisco 49ers: 0
Los Angeles Rams: 0

Arizona Cardinals: 1

HBCU Program	Player	Pos.	NFL Team	Exp.
Albany State (D2)	Grover Stewart	DL	IND	3

Alabama A&M

Anthony Lanier (IR)

Alabama St.

Tytus Howard

HOU

Arkansas Pine-Bluff	Jamie Gillan	P	CLE	2
Arkansas-Pine Bluff	Terron Armstead	OL	NO	8

Grambling	Trent Scott	OL	CAR	3
Grambling	Montrel Meandor (PS)	DB	CLE	3

Morgan State

Joshua Miles

North Carolina A&T	Darryl Johnson	DE	BUF	2
North Carolina A&T	Tarik Cohen	RB	CHI	4
North Carolina A&T	Tony McRae	CB	DET	4
North Carolina A&T	Brandon Parker	OL	LV	3

North Carolina Central

Ryan Smith

Norfolk State

Bobby Price (PS)

DET

Prairie View A&M	KhaDarel Hodge	WR	CLE	3
Prairie View A&M	Quinton Bell	OLB	TB	1

South Carolina St.	Antonio Hamilton	CB	KC	5
South Carolina St.	Javon Hargrave	DT	PHI	5
South Carolina St.	Darius Leonard	LB	IND	3
South Carolina St.	Alex Taylor (IR)	OL	CLE	1

Southern

Danny Johnson

Tennessee State	Terrell Bonds (PS)	CB	BAL	1
Tennessee State	Anthony Levine Sr.	DB	BAL	9
Tennessee State	Lachavious Simmons (PS)	OL	CHI	1
Tennessee State	Chris Rowland (PS)	WR	ATL	1

Virginia State (D2)

Trent Cannon

CAR

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