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Lakeland

#62 in the country for NFL draft picks, of 1,411 high schools that have produced one — and #16 in Florida.

3
NFL draftees
8% of 2010–2020 signees
3
College contributors
20% of skill recruits
75
Recruits tracked
every one listed below
5
Current commits
2026–27 classes

What it produces

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

CB
112 NFL
WR
121 NFL
DL
8
EDGE
8
S
8
IOL
5
LB
5
OT
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 Lakeland's classes were “supposed” to produce.

3
NFL picks
3.8
Expected
35
Recruits 201020

In line with what their ratings predicted.

3 picks against 3.8. A gap that size or bigger turns up 45% 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. Lakeland
Show every class as a table ▾
ClassSignees4–5★NFL
202731
202621
202591
20245
2023143
202251
20211
2020731
2019530
201830
2017521
201640
201500
201410
201320
2012210
2011210
201051

Notable alumni

PlayerPosCollegeOutcome
Arian SmithWRGeorgiaNFL draft (2024 R3)
Damarri MathisCBPittsburghNFL draft (2022 R4)
Darryl RobertsCBMarshallNFL draft (2015 R7)
Keon ZippererTEFloridaCollege contributor
A.J. DavisRBPittsburghCollege contributor
Kevaris ThomasQBWestern KentuckyCollege contributor

Every Lakeland signee

All 75 players Lakeland 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.

75 of 75 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
2020Arian SmithNFL draft2024 R3
2017Damarri MathisNFL draft2022 R4
2010Darryl RobertsNFL draft2015 R7
2019Keon ZippererCollege contributor
2018Kevaris ThomasCollege contributor
2017A.J. DavisCollege contributor
2027Santana HarveyToo recent to say
2027Jordan YoungToo recent to say
2027Drew SappToo recent to say
2026Malik MorrisToo recent to say
2026CJ Cresser Jr.Too recent to say
2025Keon YoungToo recent to say
2025Jermichael GillisToo recent to say
2025Sammy EtienneToo recent to say
2025Ben BeymerToo recent to say
2025Donta JenkinsToo recent to say
2025Shanard ClowerToo recent to say
2025Zander SmithToo recent to say
2025Trenton TurnerToo recent to say
2025Kavon McKinneyToo recent to say
2024Carlos Mitchell Jr.Too recent to say
2024D'Marius RuckerToo recent to say
2024Jamar Taylor Jr.Too recent to say
2024Jameson YoungToo recent to say
2024Jayren DennisToo recent to say

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

SchoolSignedDraftees
Florida70
Pittsburgh41
North Dakota State30
UCF30
Georgia21
Arizona State20
Arkansas State20
Clemson20

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
Malik MorrisUCLAMiamiWashingtonDLFlorida4★
Santana HarveyDLClemson4★
Jordan YoungCBPittsburgh3★
CJ Cresser Jr.SSouth Florida3★
Drew SappEDGEColorado3★

Other Florida pipelines

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

Every Florida 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.