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

[huskymedic]

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:

State	2020	total share
Florida	59	16.3%
Texas	54	14.9%
Georgia	36	9.9%
California	30	8.3%
Louisiana	16	4.4%
Alabama	15	4.1%
Maryland	15	4.1%
North Carolina	13	3.6%
Tennessee	11	3.0%
Arizona	9	2.5%

 

[storrsroars]

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.

 

[Waquoit]

Maryland looks like a good place to be.

 

[kibblesnbits]

It would be interesting to compare that with the distribution of high school states on NFL rosters.

 

[UconnMICK]

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.

 

[UconnMICK]

Here's a quick per capita view based on estimated 2019 state population I found on wikipedia...

			Est. 2019	Per Capita	Per Capita
State	2020​	total share	Population	Blue Chips	Rank
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

 

[AD DB Burner]

If you remove the two Blue Chips that weren't CT natives, the state would rank 30th per capita.

 

[huskymedic]

If you remove the two Blue Chips that weren't CT natives, the state would rank 30th per capita.

Then you would have would to do it for all the states (including Florida w/ IMG Academy and all other States w/ Prep/PG schools) and see what comes out of that exercise. It is what it is.

 

[don356]

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.