In all, 95 people representing all 32 NFL teams converged on little ole Clemson on Thursday, as well as ESPN and the NFL Network. Why? Clemson is and has become one of the hotbeds for NFL talent.

When the 2016 NFL Draft opens on April 28, Clemson is expected to have three of its former players—Mackensie Alexander, Kevin Dodd and Shaq Lawson—selected in the first round, while possibly three or even more could fall in rounds 2-7 over the three-day period.

“These guys that are coming out from this class, have been incredibly successful,” Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney said. “Three of the last four years they have finished inside the top 10. That certainly helps. There is no question.”

In the last five years, Clemson has posted a 56-12 record (.823) while winning two ACC Championships, two Orange Bowl Championships and playing for the College Football Playoff Championship in 2015. The Clemson program has also defeated traditional powers such as Oklahoma, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Florida State, Georgia, Auburn and LSU during that period of time.

The Tigers are 7-5 vs. Associated Press top 10 teams since 2011.

“There is no question that’s why all of those (NFL personnel) are here,” Swinney said. “You don’t beat the type of people we have beaten without having good players.”

Since Swinney has been the head coach at Clemson, 71 of his former players have been either drafted or offered a free agent contract, and 53 of those 71 players have made NFL rosters.

“That’s 75 percent,” Swinney said proudly. “Only 1.6 percent of college players play in the NFL so absolutely that’s something that is important to all of these guys. They all want opportunities to play at the next level so we keep up with that.

“Our guys our graduating, and I think they are sticking (in the NFL) because of the culture that they are coming from. Everyone knows Sammy Watkins is going to go and Vic (Beasley), but a guy like Adam Humphries goes as a free agent and ends up catching 35 or 40 balls as a rookie for the Bucs and starts his first ever NFL game. Those are the things people see.”

In the last five years, only Clemson and Alabama, the team the Tigers lost to in the national championship game, have won at least 10 games for five straight seasons.

This year will mark the fourth straight year Clemson had a former player selected in the first round of the NFL Draft and the fifth time in Swinney’s seven years there. If Lawson, Dodd and Alexander are selected in the first round as expected, it will be the first time in school history three former Tigers were taken in the first round in the same draft.

Last year, Beasley was taken at No. 8 overall by the Atlanta Falcons, while New Orleans selected linebacker Stephone Anthony at No. 31 in the first round. It was just the third time in school history Clemson had two players taken in the first round in the same draft year. The other two times came in 1979 and in 1982.

“They’re sticking, again, because of how we handle our business here and the overall development outside the football field,” Swinney said.