No, this isn't a pop quiz. The NFL, in conjunction with USA Football, put out a great release today loaded with facts and numbers about the 2011 draft. Here are some good ones:
3 - That's the number of players who went to Colton High School in California who were drafted. That would be cornerback Jimmy Smith (Round 1, Baltimore), cornerback Shareece Wright (Round 3, San Diego) and running back Allen Bradford (Round 6, Tampa Bay).
4 - Four high schools were tied with the most first-round picks with three. That would be Alabama (Marcell Dareus, Nick Fairley, Julio Jones), Florida (Corey Liuget. Patrick Peterson, Mike Pouncey), Georgia (James Carpenter, Cameron Heyward, Cam Newton) and Missouri (Adrian Clayborn, Blaine Gabber and Aldon Smith).
High school stats and the 2011 NFL Draft
10 - Only 10 high schools had more than one player drafted this year. No high school had multiple first-round picks. After the Colton class, Saint Thomas Aquinas in Florida may have produced the top talent in this year’s draft. Offensive lineman
(Round 2, Pittsburgh) and Wide receiver
(Round 3, Washington) are alums.
42 - This is the number of players drafted who attended high school in California that were drafted. After California, it was Florida (36), Texas (29), Georgia (19), North Carolina (10) and Ohio (10).
1:494,550 - Mississippi had the highest per capita amount of players picked with six. That means for every 494,550 people in Mississippi, one played high school football in the state and was taken in the 2011 NFL Draft. For the entire U.S., one out of every 1,220,338 people played high school football and was taken in the 2011 NFL Draft.
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