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St. Thomas Aquinas again leads NFL with 15 alumni on opening-day payrolls

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The St. Thomas Aquinas Raiders saw 15 of their former players make NFL teams in the first week of the 2019 season, either as players on the 53-man roster, practice squad or injured reserve.

Aquinas’ number more than doubled the next-most representative schools on this season’s NFL opening-day rosters, Junipero Serra in San Mateo, Calif., and Long Beach (Calif.) Polytechnic, which boast six each.

This year’s opening-day Raiders were consolidated onto nine teams, with three each on the Cincinnati Bengals (Geno Atkins, Bobby Hart and Giovani Bernard) and Carolina Panthers (Michael Palardy, Bryan Cox Jr. and Jordan Scarlett), and two each on the Dolphins (James Crawford and Jake Rudock) and New England Patriots (James White and Phillip Dorsett).

The remaining five Aquinas players were Joey Bosa (Los Angeles Chargers), Nick Bosa (San Francisco 49ers), Marcus Gilbert (Arizona Cardinals), Lamarcus Joyner (Oakland Raiders) and Brandon Linder (Jacksonville Jaguars).

Last year, Aquinas ended the season with 17 former players having drawn an NFL paycheck at some point during the regular season.

In April, Nick Bosa and Scarlett became the school’s 26th and 27th NFL draft picks.

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