Mind you this is 2006-2015
With 582 SEC signees between 2006 and 2015, Georgia easily took the crown as the conference’s top talent-producing state.

Every SEC program signed at least two players from Georgia and most signed far more than that. In fact, seven of the 13 SEC programs outside Georgia (Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee and Vanderbilt) looked to the Peach State more than any other for out-of-state talent. Georgia had 435 prospects sign with out-of-state SEC programs, which was also the most for any SEC state.
In Kentucky’s case, the Wildcats actually signed more Georgians (50) than Kentuckians (49). And South Carolina came close to matching that trend, signing 71 players from its home state and 70 from Georgia.

Given their considerable size advantage, it’s no surprise that the SEC’s three most populous states (Texas, Florida and Georgia) also produced the most SEC players. Those states are also known as recruiting hotbeds, which further explains why Florida (520 SEC signees) and Texas (419 – and to be clear, we’re counting all Missouri and Texas A&M signees as SEC signees even before the Tigers and Aggies joined the conference in 2012) rank second and third in SEC signees over the last decade.

I wanted to see what states also delivered the best players.
Georgia has given the SEC Eric Berry, Cam Newton, Robert Nkemdiche and Carl Lawson.
Florida has given the SEC VHIII, Tebow, Haden.
Texas has produced National Championship winners with Matt Flynn, Mccleroy. And some outstanding players like Jonathan Williams, Mike Evans, Johnny Manziel, A'shawn Robinson, Luke Joeckel.
While Mobile Alabama has produced Julio Jones, A.J, Yeldon, Fluker.
In any conversation about the nation’s top football talent-producers, states such as California, Texas, Florida and Georgia will figure heavily. So it makes sense that Texas A&M (78.8 percent of its signees between 2006 and 2015 hailed from Texas), Georgia (62 percent) and Florida (60.3) boasted the most in-state talent of all SEC programs over the last decade.

It’s interesting to review the philosophies of SEC programs that share the same state. In Alabama, both Auburn (34.8 percent) and Alabama (37.5) sign similar numbers of in-state recruits. Same with Tennessee (26.4) and Vanderbilt (17.5) although both of those programs are forced to look outside their state’s borders far more often, as Tennessee is among the less-fertile football states in the Southeast.

Meanwhile, Mississippi State (56.9) and Ole Miss (29.6) employed considerably different recruiting strategies when it came to talent from their home state. While Mississippi State had more in-state talent than nearly any other SEC program, Ole Miss ranked 10th out of the 14 teams, frequently looking to Florida, Georgia and Tennessee to fill out its recruiting classes.
Finally If the Metro Atlanta area were a state, it would have produced more SEC players in the decade than all other states except Florida and Texas. Overall, 345 players from the Atlanta area signed with SEC programs, which was more than twice as many as the next metro area (Dallas with 159).
Further, the top two high school programs for SEC talent – Stephenson with 25 SEC signees and Buford with 18 – are both within the Metro Atlanta area, as are six others that produced at least 10 SEC signees.

But let's not just talk numbers. Let's talk names. The area produced some of the SEC's top performers over the