NFL Player Origins, 2024

The National Football League (NFL) season is now underway for 2024.  Which region of the country produces the highest quality football players? The ‘Southern Slant’ is very evident in this week’s professional football players map.  This per capita map is based on where the current active roster players went to high school.  The spatial pattern is very similar to the collegiate FBS player production map from last week.  This region extending from Texas to the Carolina’s is known as the ‘Pigskin Cult’.  A little over one percent of the NFL players are from outside the U.S., primarily, Canada and Australia.