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Knoxville Catholic

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

3
NFL draftees
17% of 2010–2020 signees
1
College contributors
17% of skill recruits
26
Recruits tracked
every one listed below
4
Current commits
2026–27 classes

What it produces

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

WR
41 NFL
OT
31 NFL
EDGE
11 NFL
IOL
5
ATH
4
CB
4
QB
3
K
1
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 Knoxville Catholic's classes were “supposed” to produce.

3
NFL picks
1.5
Expected
18
Recruits 201020

In line with what their ratings predicted.

3 picks against 1.5. A gap that size or bigger turns up about 1 time in 6 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
'12
'14
'16
'18
'20
'22
'24
'26
college signees per recruiting class, 20112027. Knoxville Catholic
Show every class as a table ▾
ClassSignees4–5★NFL
20270
202642
20250
20240
20232
20222
20210
2020731
201900
2018411
2017311
201600
201510
201400
201300
201200
201130

Notable alumni

PlayerPosCollegeOutcome
Cade MaysOTGeorgiaNFL draft (2022 R6)
Tyler BaronEDGETennesseeNFL draft (2025 R5)
Amari RodgersWRClemsonNFL draft (2021 R3)

Every Knoxville Catholic signee

All 26 players Knoxville Catholic 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.

26 of 26 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
2020Tyler BaronNFL draft2025 R5
2018Cade MaysNFL draft2022 R6
2017Amari RodgersNFL draft2021 R3
2026Tyreek KingToo recent to say
2026Chaz SmithToo recent to say
2026Jeremy George-ElToo recent to say
2026Issiaga YattaraToo recent to say
2023Trevor DuncanToo recent to say
2023Brock TaylorToo recent to say
2022Tommy Winton IIIToo recent to say
2022Javis MynattToo recent to say
2020Bryn Tucker
2020Cooper Mays
2020Chancellor Bright
2020Cody Duncan
2020Bryce Nicely
2020Jack Jancek
2018DaShon Bussell
2018DJ Mitchell
2018Cam Blakely
2017Chase Kuerschen
2017Jeffery Wood
2015Zac Jancek
2011Kyler Kerbyson
2011Joey Gaston

“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 Knoxville Catholic's talent, and how those recruits fared — a revealed pipeline (where they signed, not offers).

SchoolSignedDraftees
Tennessee81
Clemson21
Austin Peay20
Georgia11
Chattanooga10
East Tennessee State10
Eastern Kentucky10
Marshall10

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
Tyreek KingLSUGeorgiaAlabamaWRTennessee4★
Chaz SmithCBNotre Dame4★
Jeremy George-ElIOLTennessee3★
Issiaga YattaraIOLAustin Peay

Other Tennessee pipelines

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

Every Tennessee 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.