The National Football League released the names of 48 underclassmen who have been granted special eligibility for the 2006 NFL Draft on April 29-30.
It is a bumper crop of declarations. Reggie Bush and Vince Young highlight this year’s underclassmen, but Vernon Davis, Haloti Ngata and Mario Williams are potential top ten picks as well. LenDale White, Winston Justice, Ernie Sims, Santonio Holmes, Laurence Moroney, Chad Jackson, Leonard Pope, Darnell Bing, and Ashton Youboty could all also hear their names called before the first round is over.
That would make almost half of the entire first round underclassmen, with 14 out of 32 selections.
Ko Simpson and Johnathan Joseph from South Carolina were the only two sophomores that were granted eligibility.
| Player | Position | College |
| Darnell Bing | S | Southern Cal |
| Cornell Brockington | RB | Connecticut |
| Reggie Bush | RB | Southern Cal |
| Brian Calhoun | RB | Wisconsin |
| Antonio Cromartie | CB | Florida St |
| Vernon Davis | TE | Maryland |
| Maurice Drew | RB | UCLA |
| Ray Edwards | DE | Purdue |
| Anthony Fasano | TE | Notre Dame |
| Charles Gordon | WR/CB | Kansas |
| Willie Hall | OT | Middle Tennessee |
| Devin Hester | CB/KR | Miami Fl |
| Santonio Holmes | WR | Ohio St |
| Chad Jackson | WR | Florida |
| Omar Jacobs | QB | Bowling Green |
| Cornell Johnson | RB | Indiana State |
| Marquis Johnson | WR | Texas Tech |
| Johnathan Joseph* | CB | South Carolina |
| Winston Justice | OT | Southern Cal |
| Brandon Kirsch | QB | Purdue |
| Greg Lee | WR | Pittsburgh |
| Laurence Maroney | RB | Minnesota |
| Richard Marshall | CB | Fresno St |
| Derrick Martin | CB | Wyoming |
| Fred Matua | OG | USC |
| John McCargo | DT | North Carolina St |
| Stanley McClover | DE | Auburn |
| Tony McDaniel | DT | Tennessee |
| Derek Morris | OT | North Carolina St. |
| Haloti Ngata | DT | Oregon |
| Kai Parham | LB | Virginia |
| Bobby Payne | DE | Middle Tennessee |
| Bernard Pollard | S | Purdue |
| Leonard Pope | TE | Georgia |
| Drouzon Quillen | WR | Louisiana-Monroe |
| Cory Rodgers | WR | Texas Christian |
| Ko Simpson* | S | South Carolina |
| Ernie Sims | LB | Florida State |
| D.J. Smith | WR | Idaho |
| Rob Smith | G | Tennessee |
| Stephen Tulloch | LB | North Carolina St |
| Marcus Vick | QB | Virginia Tech |
| Dee Webb | CB | Florida |
| LenDale White | RB | USC |
| Donte Whitner | S | Ohio State |
| Mario Williams | DE | North Carolina St |
| Ashton Youboty | CB | Ohio St |
| Vince Young | QB | Texas |
| *Sophomore Declarations | ||
Edit: This blog was archived in May of 2016 from our original articles database.It was originally posted by Mark Solway