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

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Posted by DaWGfan01

PCB FL

Member since Dec 2017

1471 posts

Posted on 2/1/22 at 11:01 am to BLG

Here another chartBlue-chip football recruits by state, 2015-19
STATE 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
STATE 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015
Texas 48 44 47 52 47
California 48 48 35 45 44
Florida 45 65 42 47 50
Georgia 40 40 33 26 34
Mississippi 16 3 7 11 7
Louisiana 15 12 12 21 13
North Carolina 15 12 7 15 9
Alabama 14 10 15 8 12
Ohio 13 12 16 12 17
Tennessee 12 11 9 8 11
Virginia 11 4 15 6 13
Michigan 9 7 10 9 4
New Jersey 8 9 5 8 7
Maryland 8 9 9 11 6
Kentucky 8 3 1 3 2
Missouri 7 6 3 1 3
Indiana 6 3 4 4 3
Arizona 6 2 3 5 2
Hawaii 5 1 2 2 4
Pennsylvania 4 12 9 9 9
Oklahoma 4 6 5 1 5
Arkansas 4 2 2 3 5
Illinois 3 4 5 6 5
D.C. 3 2 3 4 3
Iowa 3 1 2 2 0
Kansas 3 1 0 3 0
Connecticut 3 1 2 0 2
West Virginia 3 1 0 0 0
South Carolina 2 4 4 5 5
Washington 2 3 5 3 6
Utah 2 6 5 2 3
Nevada 2 5 6 0 3
Oregon 2 7 2 2 1
New York 2 2 1 0 1
Minnesota 2 0 0 1 1
Colorado 1 2 2 1 3
Nebraska 1 1 0 0 0
Delaware 1 0 1 0 0
Rhode Island 1 0 0 0 0
Wisconsin 0 0 1 2 0
Massachusetts 0 2 0 0 0
Idaho 0 2 0 0 1
New Mexico 0 0 1 0 1
South Dakota 0 0 0 1 0
Alaska 0 0 0 0 0
Maine 0 0 0 0 0
Montana 0 0 0 0 0
New Hampshire 0 0 0 0 0
North Dakota 0 0 0 0 0
Vermont 0 0 0 0 0
Wyoming 0 0 0 0

Weird, when I preview my post and click the link it pulls up the page just fine????

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Posted by Whentheleveebreaks

Member since Aug 2020

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Posted on 2/1/22 at 11:04 am to BLG

BLG

Do you know if recruits that end up at IMG count towards Florida’s numbers or the actual home state the recruit was from? Same for the school in CA, for the nane but starts with a M.

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