Thursday night was the culmination of years of hard work for college football's top players, who now are headed into the NFL as first-round draft picks. Each leaves behind a great legacy at their former school, not to mention a big void that somehow has to be filled.

It's the cyclical nature of college football, where the best of the best are only around for a few years and teams have to be prepared for their eventual departure. In most cases there's been time to plan for this, since the majority of Thursday's draft selections were players who have been pegged as top picks for quite some time.

Still, that doesn't make the process of having to replace a first-round pick any easier. Here's who stands to inherit their starting...

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