While the NFL can't outright recruit its players like colleges do, the pros know where the best players come from and that's evident in research that was done of where NFL talent comes from. The Detroit News published information that showed 28.7 percent of players on an NFL roster at last season's end came from high schools in either Florida (11.7 percent), Texas (10.1) or Georgia (6.9).
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If you're an SEC fan then you already had an idea those would be the states named. The majority of the talent in the SEC comes from those states and a ton of SEC products end up in the NFL so it only makes sense that over a quarter of the guys in the league are from those SEC recruiting territories.
California was second overall with 207 high school players now in the pros and Ohio was fifth with 88 players. Florida was first with 213, Texas third with 184 and Georgia fourth with 125.
You can find the complete list of states represented in the NFL here.
[h/t Saturday Down South]
