senior year

Wisconsin running back Montee Ball is coming back for his senior season. Ball announced his decision Thursday and said NFL evaluators told him he'd likely be a third-round pick in April's draft.

Ball scored 39 touchdowns this season, tying Barry Sanders' NCAA record. He finished the year with 1,923 yards rushing and 2,229 all-purpose yards, second best in Wisconsin history behind Ron...

Lombardi Award winner Nick Fairley is skipping his senior season at Auburn to enter the NFL draft. The potential No. 1 overall pick announced his decision Friday at his old high school, saying he didn't make up his mind until that morning.

"I was thinking, `What more could I accomplish my senior year?"' Fairley said.

After a disappointing junior year, California Running Back Jahvid Best will forego his senior year and enter the 2010 NFL draft.

Of all the underclassmen that have declared for the coming draft, this is the first one that is kind of a surprise.

There seemed to be a thinking that Best had unfinished business at Cal, but the looming NFL labor strife has convinced another junior to leave school early.

There seemed to be a little debate on whether Rutgers LT Anthony Davis would come back to school for his senior year, or go pro a year early.

Davis has always been one of the highest rated Offensive tackles in the country, and had he gone back he would have been a sure fire top five pick in the 2011 draft.

John Paul Frerer would have started his senior year at Tupelo High School on Friday, but the Eagle Scout and triathlete died a day earlier while riding his bike.