Data source: 247sports.com (collegefootballdata.com API)

Database & Data Viz Tool: Formulabot.com/football-recruits

The database contains high school football recruiting data from 247sports.com, covering 61,000+ players with details on rankings, schools, commitments, positions, ratings, and geographic information from 2005 – 2025. It's been combined with NFL draft results to determine if the player was drafted.

This chart shows every P5 college team's NFL draft rate and the average player rating based on the players that first committed to their school.

Teams above the line do a better job at getting players to the NFL, relative to the caliber of players that commit there. Teams below the line are not getting players drafted at the rate at which they should be.

Side note: It's filtered for P5, so I technically forgot to include ND.

Posted by No-Comfortable-9418

13 comments

  2. Iowa being way above the line is not surprising. They seem to always develop great players without stellar recruiting classes.

  4. The most surprising thing I noticed was Oregon “underperforming.” They’ve been a recruiting powerhouse for a while and one of the more successful CFB teams, I’d have thought that would translate to more draft picks.

    Every other team I saw more or less lined up with my preconceived expectations.

  5. Preparing players for the NFL is not the same as getting players drafted

  6. Teams where nobody with a lower recruit ranking has a higher draft success rate.

    * ALA
    * UGA
    * LSU
    * FLA
    * CLEM
    * PSU
    * IOWA
    * NCST
    * ILL
    * UTAH
    * ORST
    * WAKE
    * UCF
    * HOU
    * SMU

    Teams where nobody with a higher recruit ranking has a lower draft success rate.

    * USC
    * TEX
    * TAMU
    * TENN
    * UNC
    * NEB
    * ASU
    * TTU
    * UVA
    * ARIZ
    * COL
    * WSU

  8. So all the best high school players go to the same powerhouses and they are the ones getting drafted?

    I’m speechless.

  10. Shedeur’s slide really dragging down Colorado

  11. Notre Dame literally has the most NFL drafted players of all time

  12. I think it might be interesting if you had a series of graphs where you separate out the player rankings. For example, a graph of NFL draft rate for 5 star recruits only at each school, 4 star recruits only, etc. Might see some additional trends that you can’t tell from just taking an average player rating.

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