With the threat of freak injuries, and the theory that the longer you stay the more your game can be scrutinized, underclassmen felt the need to take the money and run in 2012.
Pro Football Talk is reporting that a record 73 underclassmen have been granted early entry to declare for the draft. You can probably make the number 74 if South Carolina All American Jadeveon Clowney had been allowed to declare also.