RedditCFB Tweets # of Recruits Sent to NFL by Each School This Year
This is a pretty cool graph that Jay Harbaugh just retweeted. Kind of awesome that there's a notable gap between us and the field.
Total players sent to the NFL so far by school including 253 Draftees and 466 Undrafted Free Agent Signings. (h/t curtisas) pic.twitter.com/FA0yGEWmTv
— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) May 17, 2017
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It is. I'll try to embiggen the graph.
EDIT: On second thought, I'm not going to screw with it.
The problem with trying to embiggen things in this interface is that when you start to get much beyond 400-500 pixels or so, it expands beyond the text box, begins to cover menus and other things and generally draws the ire of other MGoBloggers. There's a way to scale images, but if it was a large image in the first place, your options here are sadly limited.
Click this link for a full-size graphic:
It's like Where's Waldo but bitterer.
I think I see Sparty, though. Right there between Rutgers and Eastern Michigan. Can't tell for sure if that's their old logo or what.
Hate to be "that guy", but State is actually above both Rutgers and Eastern (who both sent 3 players into the NFL). If you right-click and "open in new tab" it's easier to see. I think you might be confusing the SJSU Spartan for MSU's logo
However, it's probably easier to just lump MSU in with all of the other teams that sent between 3-9 players to the NFL.
It would be cool if Sparty wore a red and white hat and a blue shirt to make him easier to pick out.
I misread the tweet and thought the graph was for all time. Was certainly surprised to see Utah #2 in that context.
but will we be sharing all of these next year when we have like 3 guys go?
No. Instead we will be making charts of all the returning starters per team, and it will be glorious.
Part of being an irrational fan is cherry-picking stats to fit your narrative.
When your team sends the most players to the NFL you celebrate it but most importantly you spread it far and wide.
You want recruits to see this. Top talent recruits will defintely factor this in to their decision. Play for Harbaugh, a former NFL coach, and youll have a good chance to go to the NFL.
Its not often Michigan can say they sent the most players to the NFL.
Who would have thought 19 players from the team that went 5-7 in 2014 including losses to Maryland and Rutgers would end up on NFL rosters?
24 including last year's seniors (minus Rudock).. pretty crazy
This is one of those "why not both" cases.
You must've been one of those guys sipping the "Just didn't execute" Kool-Aid
That team had at least 19 players with NFL-level ability and still couldn't beat the bottom half of the Big Ten. Whether you want to blame development, execution, or strategy, it was a terrible coaching job.
I guess some fans look at this and think it's awesome, but I'm more on the other side. We had all this talent and still didn't win anything of substance? That's a little troubling. Of course, a lot of these picks were in the back half of the draft, so maybe the top end talent just wasn't there.
And the team lost it's 3 games by a combined 5 points, were 1 play away from winning each of the games, and these players were all on a team that went 5-7 and was said to lack the talent to compete with teams like OSU and MSU. With every success Harbaugh has had the goalposts keep moving. When he was hired, people were just hoping the team wouldn't be an embarassment against good teams in a couple years and 10 wins was more than many expected.
It is simple. There were no o-lineman drafted. When we start having all-americans back on our o-line it will be a team no one wants to play. Our defense will always be at the top in the country as long as Brown is here.
Somehow, I knew that Sparty would have sent around 3-9 recruits
It's pretty remarkable. Whittingham is one hell of a coach.
Texas with just 5, and SEC blue-blood Georgia with just 6... Thinking of all the talented players with lots of STARZ that didn't pan out at either place... Just keep giving Harbaugh & Co. ammunition on the recruiting trail.
is seeing Pitt with 13. Makes you wonder how much of Dantonio's success was because of Narduzzi rather than his own coaching ability.
Unfortunately I think it's pretty much guaranteed unless he gets scooped up by an equal or better team by then.
He's already at an equal or better team, especially when you consider that right now he's in the weaker division of the ACC, whereas at Michigan State he would need to get past OSU, PSU, and us.
Narduzzi spent eight years at MSU, but has spent the rest of his life in Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, and the east coast. I'd be surprised if he has such an enduring loyalty to MSU that he makes a lateral move to take over from Dantonio.
Alabamas numbers are straight up UNACCEPTABLE for the level of talent they have been recieiving for the last decade. Saban has had the #1 recruiting class for what 9 years in a row? He should be blowing everyone else out of the water year in year out
This graph should show those 5* recruits that all herd up together at OSU and Alabama thinking those schools are their best shot at the NFL that with their skill level they'll be drafted no matter what P5 school they go to as long as they put in the work. So no need to contiously have these 5* squads at those two schools
Michigan State sure is good at developing its talent ... they've achieved parity with San Diego State and are almost as good as Temple!