Myles Garrett is No. 9 recruit overall and No. 1 among players from Florida, California and Texas.
File photo by Robbie Rakestraw
Where are the nation's elite recruits from the Class of 2014 from? You can probably guess.
Where are they going? More predictable answers.
However, where they aren't from and where they are not going is a surprise in many cases.
A look at 247Sports.com's
top 247 recruits reveals Texas (28), Florida (27) and California (25) are the big elite recruit producers. Only one out of the big three, however, has produced a Top 10 recruit:
Martin (Arlington, Texas) defensive end
Myles Garrett (No. 9).
Leonard Fournette is one of 15 elite
recruits from the state of Louisiana
and the No. 2 recruit overall from the
Class of 2014.
File photo by Roddy Johnson
Georgia (18) and Louisiana (15), which features the top two coveted players — offensive lineman
Cameron Robinson of
West Monroe (La.) and running back
Leonard Fournette of
St. Augustine (New Orleans), are the next two on the list.
Alabama and Ohio, with 11, and New Jersey and Illinois (10 each) are the only other states with double-digit elite recruits. Virginia, which features three of the top eight players, and North Carolina are next in line with nine.
Pennsylvania, a state long known for its long list of NFL quarterbacks, and heavily populated New York had only three Top 247 recruits each.
As far as where these blue chippers are headed, the usual suspects lead the way as Alabama and Ohio State have already received 11 commitments from the Top 247.
Nobody else has secured — a relative term — double-digit elite recruits with five schools tied at eight: Florida State, Notre Dame, Michigan, Texas and Miami.
Georgia and Texas A&M have landed seven top players and LSU six, but nobody else more than five.
Perhaps West Coast kids tend to procrastinate as the Pac-12 Conference has secured only a combined 12 Top 247 players. Oregon leads the way with three and USC, a perennial blue chip magnet, has secured only two elite players, the same number as Cal and Arizona, but one more than Stanford.
The notion that kids are committing earlier and earlier appears to be true. More than 62 percent of the Top 247 — 156 of them — have committed to colleges before taking a snap their senior years. Before the turn of the century more than half of top recruits wouldn't announce until National Signing Day.
States that have produced the most Top 247 recruits from Class of 2014: Texas (28), Florida (27), California (25), Georgia (18), Louisiana (15), Alabama (11), Ohio (11), Illinois (10), New Jersey (10), North Carolina (9), Virginia (9), Arizona (8), Mississippi (7), South Carolina (7), Tennessee (6), Michigan (5), Oklahoma (5), Kentucky (3), New York (3), Pennsylvania (3), Utah (3) and Washington (3).
Colleges football programs to secure the most commitments from the Top 247 recruits: Alabama (11), Ohio State (11), Florida State (8), Miami (8), Michigan (8), Notre Dame (8), Texas (8), Georgia (7), Texas A&M (7), LSU (6), Auburn (5), Clemson (5), Ole Miss (4), Baylor (3), Michigan State (3), North Carolina (3), Oregon (3), South Carolina (3), Tennessee (3), Wisconsin (3).
