Hype, humility an Nick Saban's updated first-round draft numbers

It's the end of the first day and I'm officially drafted out. All that hype and buildup just to find out that Jameis Winston still has no concept of the word humility. Good luck Tampa Bay.

Here are some things of note from Thursday night, the first two of which update charts I compiled for the book Nick Saban vs. College Football.

• Even though Alabama only had one player selected in the first round, snapping a five-year string of multiple first-rounders, Amari Cooper was the 22nd to be coached by Nick Saban -- and that figure doesn't include seven additional former players taken in the first round within three years after left Michigan State and LSU. The 22 leads active coaches ahead of Steve Spurrier (17), Les Miles (15), Bob Stoops (13), Mark Richt (12), and Urban Meyer (11).

• Saban's 22 moves him into fourth all-time behind Joe Paterno (33), Bobby Bowden (32), and Woody Hayes (27). Add those extra seven and he'd be third, with the two ahead of him having tenures spanning 40-plus years.

• Winston was the first player from Florida State to ever be the first-overall selection. Bowden may have coached great players like Deion Sanders, Derrick Brooks, Charlie Ward, Chris Weinke and Warrick Dunn, but his best showing in the draft was third overall, defensive end Andre Wadsworth in 1998. He didn't have much of a career with the Arizona Cardinals (and trust me, I know. I covered the Cardinals in 1998-99).

• Raiders coach Jack Del Rio got some long looks at Amari Cooper during Alabama's practices when he was on-hand to watch his son Luke, a former Crimson Tide walk-on quarterback: “I would just say that when you talk about this young man coming in at this level, as a draft prospect that has not played in the NFL yet, it’s unusual when words like ‘polished’ are thrown out, but that’s what you see. He has been lined up all across the board – outside, both sides, inside the slot, moving around, even lined up in the backfield some. So he’s been exposed to a lot, been utilized a lot of different ways. He’s run the entire route tree. They compete at Alabama, just competing in that conference in the time that he’s had. The repetitions that he’s had playing the position, running the route tree and doing all the things that he’s done to develop himself, makes him a guy that has that label of being polished. That’s why, he’s earned it."

• It took Amari Cooper only six questions on a conference call with Bay-area reporters to be asked about former Raiders coach Lane Kiffin. His response: “He wanted to see every player reach their fullest potential. He harped on the small things with me, like looking the ball all the way through and high-pointing the ball so that I can be the best player that I can be."

• Have $300? The Raiders website immediately started taking orders for Cooper jerseys.

• Finally, constantly seeing "The pick is in" on the screen while hearing about something that had already happened was for the birds. Here's hoping the twitter/online ban on picks before they're announced goes out the window, and/or the selections are revealed as they really happen next year.