re: 5 5-Star players in the 2023 class have verballed. 3 of them to Southern Cal. Avg * 99.33

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A lot of schools not within the state are recruiting California hard.

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recruiting for major football programs is national, and has been for years now. Whether it's Florida, Texas, California, Georgia, or Delaware, geography doesn't even matter anymore. With NIL it's going to matter even less.

As for states that produce the most talent, this graph is a couple years old but shows where NFL players came from

Rank State Players
1 Florida 193
2 California 187
3 Texas 160
4 Georgia 97
5 Ohio 80
6 Pennsylvania 66
7 Louisiana 63
8 Alabama 60
9 New Jersey 50
10 South Carolina 48
11 Michigan 46
12 Virginia 43
13 North Carolina 42
14 Illinois 38
15 New York 36
16 Tennessee 34
17 Maryland 28
18 Mississippi 27
(tie) Missouri 27
(tie) Wisconsin 27
21 Arizona 24
22 Minnesota 20
23 Washington 18
24 Indiana 16
(tie) Oklahoma 16
26 Colorado 15
(tie) Kansas 15
28 Connecticut 14
(tie) Nebraska 14
30 Kentucky 13
31 Arkansas 12
(tie) Iowa 12
(tie) Oregon 12
34 Hawaii 10
35 D.C. 9
(tie) Nevada 9
37 Massachusetts 8
38 Delaware 7
39 Idaho 6
(tie) Utah 6
41 Montana 5
42 New Mexico 3
(tie) North Dakota 3
(tie) South Dakota 3
(tie) West Virginia 3
46 New Hampshire 2
(tie) Wyoming 2
48 Rhode Island 1
49 Alaska 0
(tie) Maine 0
(tie) Vermont 0