How 2018 Recruiting Aligns With NFL Talent Base
I just stumbled upon an interesting tabulation of data available on 247Sports that lists the number of schollie offers by state. I decided to match this up with the breakdown of current NFL players by birthplace.
Here you go:
| Rank |
Current NFL Players |
State |
2018 M Offers |
Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 193 | Florida | 51 | 1 |
| 2 | 187 | California | 18 | 4 |
| 3 | 160 | Texas | 28 | 3 |
| 4 | 97 | Georgia | 29 | 2 |
| 5 | 80 | Ohio | 12 | 5 |
| 6 | 66 | Pennsylvania | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | 63 | Louisiana | 4 | 12 |
| 8 | 60 | Alabama | 7 | 8 |
| 9 | 50 | New Jersey | 11 | 6 |
| 10 | 48 | South Carolina | 2 | 18 |
| 11 | 46 | Michigan | 8 | 7 |
| 12 | 43 | Virginia | 2 | 18 |
| 13 | 42 | North Carolina | 5 | 10 |
Note: Maryland is tied with Alabama for the 8th-most schollie offers from M, but has the 17th most NFL players.
PS - I wanted to drop this under the Recruiting Board, by my browser is not showing a "Save" buttton over there.
Titles soon to follow....because
Harbaugh!
Go Blue!
Im actually a bit surprised by how high Michigan is on this list.
Drew Stanton
August 7th, 2017 at 10:07 PM ^
....once again, the state does not produce NFL qbs
And for all the fuss about Louisiana, Ohio is still way ahead of it.
in terms of NFL talent per capita. They always have that big, raw and athletic football players that needs time to get better before becoming a stud.
2016 estimates are about 11.6 million people in Ohio and 4.7 in Louisiana. If Ohio produced NFL players at the same rate as Louisiana, my back of the envelope calculation is that they would be at 155 NFL players.
So that's why Harbaugh is spending so much time there.
I can't be the only one deeply annoyed by the use of "schollie." It really makes me cringe.
'Schollie' isn't so bad, when placed next to 'natty'... 'Natty' is the worst - in both beer and national championship talk!
August 8th, 2017 at 11:23 PM ^
That's just awful.
LOL!!
per capita may be more informative here.
August 7th, 2017 at 11:06 PM ^