Hit the books!
Unfortunately, the odds of going from high school to
the NCAA to the NFL are staggering.
The NCAA reports the following stats:
High School Senior Football Players: 310,000
Percent of High School Players to the NCAA: 6.5%
Percent of High School Players to the Pros: 0.08%
Percent of NCAA players to the Pros: 1.7%
NCAA Football Players Drafted to the NFL: 254
Scary
stuff. Out of roughly 310,000 high school senior football players, only 254
will be drafted into the NFL four years later.
And many of those 254 draftees will be cut before their rookie training
camp wraps up. And the average NFL
career is only around four years. Hit
the books.
