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t is an interesting stat, but it doesn't really translate beyond that.

Alabama has more top rated recruits overall per state, but Louisiana has more per capita. Which state do you want to recruit from more? The one with the more overall recruits. Which in this case is still pretty close, but it just kind of highlights because nobody is talking about Alabama in terms of a top talent state.

Which is why California, Texas and Florida are the pipeline states everyone wants to be recruiting in.

So as much as it would be fun to give LSU shite for the perception that they have so much talent and can't benefit from it, it's not really true.

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Not really, LA and Alabama were different by 1 player for NFL 2020 rosters. 2020 US Census data, Alabama has 5.024 Million people, LA has 4.6 million people, about 350K difference in favor of Alabama (24th and 25th largest states in population). Alabama grew at 5.12% over last decade, LA grew just under 3% the last decade.

LA will improve for 2021 NFL roster, 3 1st rounders from LA, Chase, Smith and Etienne (2 of them did not play for LSU) Kelvin Joseph was I think #45 and of course Marshall, Shevlin, Mcmath from LSU are all LA guys. Rochell from Central Arkansas is from Shreveport Fair Park, Garret Willow from TCU to Housteon is from John Curtis New Orleans, Elijah Mitchell of ULL is from Erath, Rodarius Williams of Ok State is from Shreveport Calvary Baptist, Marquez Stevenson of Houston is from Shreveport Northwood, Isreel Mukuamu of South Carolina is from Bossier City Parkway (same school is Terrance Marshall)t might be Shreveport).

So 13 NFL picks from LA HS football. So LA which is about 1.3% of US total population produced 5% of the NFL 2021 NFL draft. Not bad in a down year for LSU.

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This post was edited on 5/3/21 at 1:36 pm