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With plenty of guessing still going on past the top two picks in tonight’s first round of the NFL Draft, an impressive college-related streak is in jeopardy.

A player from the Southeastern Conference has been selected in the top five in every draft since 2007. If the Chargers at No. 3 or Jaguars at No. 5 don’t take Ole Miss tackle Laremy Tunsil tonight, it’s not likely that streak will continue.

The SEC has had more players drafted than any other conference has in those nine straight years. Four SEC players in that time — JaMarcus Russell, Matthew Stafford, Cam Newton and Jadeveon Clowney — have been the No. 1 overall pick.

The timing fits. An SEC team won college football’s national championship every season from 2006-12, and Alabama won its third in five seasons in 2015 after a two-year “drought.”

AL.com ran down a bunch of SEC-related numbers and streaks Thursday morning. An SEC player has been selected in 169 consecutive rounds of the draft. The second round in 1993 was the last without an SEC player being selected.

In 10 straight drafts a different SEC program has provided the first player from the conference drafted. If Tunsil goes first that streak will hit 11. If Georgia’s Leonard Floyd is picked first, it will end.

The SEC had 54 players drafted last year; the ACC was next with 47. The SEC had a record 63 players drafted in 2013.

The top-five streak started in 2007 after an outlier year. The first SEC player drafted in 2006 was Vanderbilt quarterback Jay Cutler, at No. 11. Only one other SEC player, Tennessee safety Jason Allen, went in the top 20 in 2006 after nine of the top 25 came from the SEC in 2005.