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The Southeastern Conference is well on its way to having the most players taken in the NFL draft for the 13th year in a row.Twelve of the first 24 picks of the second round Friday night were from the SEC https://www.jaguarsfanstore.com/Dede-Westbrook-Jersey , and at the end of the third the conference could lay claim to more than a quarter of the players drafted, 28 of 102.The Big Ten, which had seven players go in the third round, has 16 picks so far, followed by the ACC (12) and the Pac-12 and Big 12 (11 each).Florida offensive lineman Jawaan Taylor was the first of three straight SEC players chosen in the second round, going No. 35 overall to the Jaguars. South Carolina wide receiver Deebo Samuel (49ers) and Mississippi offensive lineman Greg Little were next.Missouri quarterback Drew Lock Jermey Parnell Color Rush Jersey , who went No. 42 to the Broncos, started a run of four SEC players taken over five picks.The SEC, which had nine first-round picks Thursday, had 19 players taken Friday.“In the SEC, I had 35 career starts. I left a year early, but I feel like I was ready and prepared to play in the NFL because I played against a lot of great competition A. J. Cann Jersey ,” Taylor said. “Definitely playing at Florida, playing in such a great conference prepared me for this role.”Every SEC school except Arkansas and Tennessee had at least one player drafted in the first three rounds. Alabama has a league-high five and Mississippi and Mississippi State have four each.Defending national champion Clemson has had four players selected to lead the ACC.Last year, the SEC had 27 players drafted through three rounds and finished with 53, and Alabama led the nation with 12.Southern California, the school that has produced the most drafted players in history, didn’t have a player taken until offensive tackle Chuma Edoga was picked by the New York Jets with the 92nd overall pick. That’s the longest USC has had to wait for a player to be selected since 2001.Old Dominion had its first player drafted in program history when defensive end Oshane Ximines went to the Giants in the third round. The Jacksonville Jaguars head into the bye weekend at 3-5 and their offense in shambles. The only hope for it to improve rests on the legs of running back Leonard Fournette https://www.jaguarsfanstore.com/Marqise-Lee-Jersey , who has missed most of the season with a hamstring injury. The offensive line has struggled so much the Jaguars coaching staff said they didn’t have confidence to even try running the ball against the Philadelphia Eagles and quarterback Blake Bortles has come crashing back to earth, already benched once and looking like he could be replaced in the offseason.Man, that’s a rough eight games coming off a season that was on the doorstep of the Super Bowl.So what happened to the Jaguars offense?The popular talking point right now is that the Jaguars invested everything on the defensive side of the ball and ignored their offense. While I do think that the Jaguars took some huge gambles this offseason on the offensive side of the ball that has blown up in their face, I think the position that they ignored the offensive side of the ball while building the defense is inexplicably incorrect. They just invested in it a different way.Here is what Jaguars general manager has added to the offensive side of the ball since he became the general manager:second overall pick offensive tackle (Luke Joeckel)high priced free agent guard (Zane Beadles)high priced free agent tight end (Julius Thomas)third overall pick on quarterback (Blake Bortles)second round wide receiver (Marqise Lee)second round wide receiver (Allen Robinson)second round wide receiver (D.J. Chark)second round running back (T.J. Yeldon)third round center (Brandon Linder)third round guard (A.J. Cann)high priced free agent tackle (Jermey Parnell)high priced free agent guard (Andrew Norwell)high priced free agent running back (Chris Ivory)mid-tier priced free agent running back (Toby Gerhart)fourth overall running back (Leonard Fournette)second round offensive tackle (Cam Robinson)mid-tier priced free agent tight end (Austin Seferian-Jenkins)expensive one-year free agent wide receiver (Donte Moncrief)traded for a running back (Carlos Hyde)This only counting draft picks used through Day 2 of the NFL Draft and not including things like paying Allen Hurns, which is an investment, or other ancillary moves for the offense.To say that the Jaguars didn’t invest in the offense is a misnomer. They did Telvin Smith Color Rush Jersey , and they invested quite a bit. The biggest difference is they missed. They missed on a lot of those moves on the offense and that’s a big reason why they’re where they’re at. They chose to invest a little bit more on draft picks and their development on the offensive side of the ball, while investing in veterans on the defensive side and expecting to be in a lot of close games carried by the defense while the offensive players grow and develop.The problem is those players by and large didn’t and the veterans you signed to supplement them went bust. You have a bad combination of draft picks not working out, high priced free agents flopping and a quarterback who needs a lot of things around him to go right, rather than being a quarterback who can elevate others when things go awry.The conversation shouldn’t be why the Jaguars haven’t put anything around Blake Bortles on offense or if they invested enough into it, but it should be about the people who were doing the investing.