Map Shows States That Produce the Most NFL Players

Neither of the two teams that kicked off the NFL season are from the top five states, according to new data.

The 2024 NFL season kicked off with a game between Super Bowl winners Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens, but according to recently released data, neither team hails from a state that's statistically significant for producing professional football stars.Figures released in July by the sports betting website Action Network showed that Texas produced the highest number of NFL players, with 211 current professional players in the sport, which equates to 1 in 12 players in the league.

'The high-schoolers then go on to be even stronger players at a college level and consequentially more of them are recruited to join the NFL teams, he said.Ross noted that colleges in other states frequently recruit players from the top three. The University of Alabama, for example, which he said 'traditionally in the last 10 years had the best program' recently recruited a number of players from California, Florida, and Texas.

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