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All 50 states, ranked by their percentage of national blue-chip recruits

CT tied w/ Kentucky, Mass Oklahoma and Penn w/ 4 (QB Tyler VanDyke, QB Drew Pyne, WR Jaden Dottin and DT Lamar Goods). Only VanDyke and Pyne are CT residents..

Top 10:
State2020total share
Florida5916.3%
Texas5414.9%
Georgia369.9%
California308.3%
Louisiana164.4%
Alabama154.1%
Maryland154.1%
North Carolina133.6%
Tennessee113.0%
Arizona92.5%
 
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It's ridiculous how far PA has fallen as a recruiting hotbed. Used to seem like pretty much every NFL team had a guy or two from coal/steel country in Western PA. Now they've become Connecticut.
 

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Maryland looks like a good place to be.
 
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It would be interesting to compare that with the distribution of high school states on NFL rosters.
 
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Would also be interesting to see the percentages on a per capita basis. More specifically, based on high school aged population by state (if that even exists). I'm sure the rankings would be shuffled around quite a bit.
 
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Here's a quick per capita view based on estimated 2019 state population I found on wikipedia...

Est. 2019Per CapitaPer Capita
State
2020​
total sharePopulationBlue ChipsRank
District of Columbia
5​
1.40%​
705,749​
0.000708%​
1
Louisiana
16​
4.40%​
4,648,794​
0.000344%​
2
Georgia
36​
9.90%​
10,617,423​
0.000339%​
3
Alabama
15​
4.10%​
4,903,185​
0.000306%​
4
Florida
59​
16.30%​
21,477,737​
0.000275%​
5
Maryland
15​
4.10%​
6,045,680​
0.000248%​
6
Hawaii
3​
0.80%​
1,415,872​
0.000212%​
7
Mississippi
6​
1.70%​
2,976,149​
0.000202%​
8
Texas
54​
14.90%​
28,995,881​
0.000186%​
9
Tennessee
11​
3.00%​
6,833,174​
0.000161%​
10
North Carolina
13​
3.60%​
10,488,084​
0.000124%​
11
Arizona
9​
2.50%​
7,278,717​
0.000124%​
12
Connecticut
4​
1.10%​
3,565,287​
0.000112%​
13
Oklahoma
4​
1.10%​
3,956,971​
0.000101%​
14
South Carolina
5​
1.40%​
5,148,714​
0.000097%​
15
Utah
3​
0.80%​
3,205,958​
0.000094%​
16
Washington
7​
1.90%​
7,614,893​
0.000092%​
17
New Jersey
8​
2.20%​
8,882,190​
0.000090%​
18
Kentucky
4​
1.10%​
4,467,673​
0.000090%​
19
Missouri
5​
1.40%​
6,137,428​
0.000081%​
20
Michigan
8​
2.20%​
9,986,857​
0.000080%​
21
California
30​
8.30%​
39,512,223​
0.000076%​
22
New Hampshire
1​
0.30%​
1,359,711​
0.000074%​
23
Virginia
6​
1.70%​
8,535,519​
0.000070%​
24
Kansas
2​
0.60%​
2,913,314​
0.000069%​
25
Arkansas
2​
0.60%​
3,017,825​
0.000066%​
26
Nevada
2​
0.60%​
3,080,156​
0.000065%​
27
Iowa
2​
0.60%​
3,155,070​
0.000063%​
28
Massachusetts
4​
1.10%​
6,949,503​
0.000058%​
29
Nebraska
1​
0.30%​
1,934,408​
0.000052%​
30
Ohio
6​
1.70%​
11,689,100​
0.000051%​
31
Illinois
5​
1.40%​
12,671,821​
0.000039%​
32
Colorado
2​
0.60%​
5,758,736​
0.000035%​
33
Wisconsin
2​
0.60%​
5,822,434​
0.000034%​
34
Pennsylvania
4​
1.10%​
12,801,989​
0.000031%​
35
Minnesota
1​
0.30%​
5,639,632​
0.000018%​
36
Indiana
1​
0.30%​
6,732,219​
0.000015%​
37
New York
1​
0.30%​
19,453,561​
0.000005%​
38
Alaska
0​
0.00%​
731,545​
0.000000%​
39
Delaware
0​
0.00%​
973,764​
0.000000%​
39
Idaho
0​
0.00%​
1,787,065​
0.000000%​
39
Maine
0​
0.00%​
1,344,212​
0.000000%​
39
Montana
0​
0.00%​
1,068,778​
0.000000%​
39
New Mexico
0​
0.00%​
2,096,829​
0.000000%​
39
North Dakota
0​
0.00%​
762,062​
0.000000%​
39
Oregon
0​
0.00%​
4,217,737​
0.000000%​
39
Rhode Island
0​
0.00%​
1,059,361​
0.000000%​
39
South Dakota
0​
0.00%​
884,659​
0.000000%​
39
Vermont
0​
0.00%​
623,989​
0.000000%​
39
West Virginia
0​
0.00%​
1,792,147​
0.000000%​
39
Wyoming
0​
0.00%​
578,759​
0.000000%​
39
 
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If you remove the two Blue Chips that weren't CT natives, the state would rank 30th per capita.
 
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Football recruiting rankings are notoriously bad. They really out to rank guys based on states where guys have actually come from that played division 1 football.
 

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