a big deal is made about florida and california HS talent but Texas is right there.Texas has some of the best talent in the country.
The QBs.a big deal is made about florida and california HS talent but Texas is right there.
Drew Brees and Nick Foles played for Westlake, a suburb of my hometown Austin.The QBs.
You won't find many starting QBs from Florida, but they otherwise pack the NFL with talent.
I think Mac ones is the only one from there of the 14 playoff teams.
Brees and Luck are gone now, but they were Texan High Schoolers too.
Playoffpalooza for former Texas HS Quarterbacks this year
Mahomes
Stafford
Murray
Hurts
Tannehill
5 of the starting QBs
I wonder if that is some sort of record?
What's a bit funny is that none played at Univ of Texas
Anyone who can stay in the league and have value for more than a decade has had a relatively successful NFL career.Not starting obviously but Colt McCoy will be at least making the trip with Arizona.
a big deal is made about florida and california HS talent but Texas is right there.
California of course has a lot more due to its population; Florida has a fair number due to its climate; Texas is kind of interesting when looking at it that way.Just… Right there? I don’t know how it is now, but high school football in Texas was treated like a religion when I was growing up. Texas has always had one of the largest (if not the largest) talent pool in the nation for football players.
Here are the number of NFL players by state, top 10California of course has a lot more due to its population; Florida has a fair number due to its climate; Texas is kind of interesting when looking at it that way.
Now as regards it being a religion of course; but once again I was talking about public perception nation wide. Ask a lot of college football fans and not many will realize this. Now that is mostly because Rivals and all the rest and ESPN and so on rave about Florida and California and rarely talk about Texas.
TrueTexas looses too much talent to out of state and the talent gets spread around Texas schools as well and unlike the great state of Florida, cannot get regional help from other states. Top talent from Louisiana are going to go to LSU and the players in the other gulf states aren't going to go that far west for the most part. California to certain extent has the same issues as well.