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Central

#62 in the country for NFL draft picks, of 1,411 high schools that have produced one — and #3 in Alabama.

3
NFL draftees
6% of 2010–2020 signees
4
College contributors
24% of skill recruits
58
Recruits tracked
every one listed below
2
Current commits
2026–27 classes

What it produces

Every college signee since 2010 by position group, and how many of them were drafted.

DL
72 NFL
S
41 NFL
WR
7
EDGE
6
OT
6
RB
6
ATH
5
IOL
5
draftedsigned with a college program

Did its recruits beat their ratings?

Every recruit's odds of being drafted, from his composite rating and position group, fit within his own signing class — added up, that is what Central's classes were “supposed” to produce.

3
NFL picks
2.8
Expected
48
Recruits 201020

In line with what their ratings predicted.

3 picks against 2.8. A gap that size or bigger turns up 55% of the time at a school this size by chance alone.

And chance gets 170 attempts: about 9 of the schools here clear that bar on luck. Corrected for that, no high school in this data separates from its recruits' ratings.

Class by class

Whether the pipeline is opening or closing — the one question a February class ranking cannot answer, because nobody goes back to it.

4–5★ signeesall other college signees
'10
'12
'14
'16
'18
'20
'22
'24
'26
college signees per recruiting class, 20102027. Central
Show every class as a table ▾
ClassSignees4–5★NFL
20271
202611
20254
20240
202321
20220
20211
202010
201930
201830
2017411
201630
2015710
201471
201330
2012310
201191
2010610

Notable alumni

PlayerPosCollegeOutcome
Marlon TuipulotuDLUSCNFL draft (2021 R6)
Christian CampbellSPenn StateNFL draft (2018 R6)
Rakeem Nunez-RochesDLSouthern MissNFL draft (2015 R6)
Grant HedrickQBBoise StateCollege contributor
D'Angelo BrewerRBTulsaCollege contributor
Tyree MayfieldTEWyomingCollege contributor
J.D. McKissicWRArkansas StateCollege contributor

Every Central signee

All 58 players Central has sent to a college football program since 2010 — what they were rated, where they signed, and what happened next. The table above is the honour roll; this is the whole list.

58 of 58 signees since 2010. “Too recent to say” is the 2021 class and later — they have not had a draft to be in yet, which is not the same as not making it.

ClassPlayerWhat happened
2017Marlon TuipulotuNFL draft2021 R6
2014Christian CampbellNFL draft2018 R6
2011Rakeem Nunez-RochesNFL draft2015 R6
2014D'Angelo BrewerCollege contributor
2014Tyree MayfieldCollege contributor
2011J.D. McKissicCollege contributor
2010Grant HedrickCollege contributor
2027Tyson RochesterToo recent to say
2026Jonaz WaltonToo recent to say
2025Jared MartinToo recent to say
2025Gabe FieldsToo recent to say
2025Cassidee MilesToo recent to say
2025Gabriel HainesToo recent to say
2023Vicari SwainToo recent to say
2023Skylar CookToo recent to say
2021Balansama KamaraToo recent to say
2020Shane Bruce
2019Cosmas Kwete
2019Casey Clanton
2019Eloi Kwete
2018Bobby Lawrence
2018Broughton Hatcher
2018Lyndell Hudson
2017Collin Washington
2017De'Vonta Smith

“College contributor” is measured from offence-skill usage and, from 2021, defensive production — so a lineman who started four years shows as neither. NFL draft covers every position. A player is listed under the college he SIGNED with, which is not always the one he was drafted from.

Where its players go

The colleges that land the most of Central's talent, and how those recruits fared — a revealed pipeline (where they signed, not offers).

SchoolSignedDraftees
Southern Miss21
Georgia Tech20
New Mexico20
Notre Dame20
SMU20
Temple20
Vanderbilt20
Villanova20

Current commits

“Projects to fit” is the “should go” beside the “did go”: among the programs at his level, the ones whose record best matches his profile — development at his position, territory, roster need. Descriptive fit, not a prediction of where he signs.

RecruitPosCommitted toStars
Jonaz WaltonTexas A&MGeorgiaLSURBNotre Dame4★
Tyson RochesterSNavy

Other Alabama pipelines

The schools this one is measured against — same state, nearest record.

Every Alabama high school →

Descriptive hindsight, not a forecast. Draft outcomes cover all positions (2010–2020 signing classes — each has the full five drafts behind it); the college-contributor count covers offense-skill positions (2010–21), where we have production data. A school's own history is not an input to any projection on this site: across 5,852 programs, where a recruit went to high school adds nothing to what his rating already says. How this is measured.