Homegrown Heroes: The US states producing the most NFL athletes

Top states for NFL playing
Speaking of Super Bowls, we’ve created a ranking of the top American NFL players, looking specifically at weighted career approximate values (wAV) for over 8,000 players. This is calculated by taking 100% of the player’s best-season approximate value (AV), 95% of their second-best-season AV, 90% of their third-best, and so on. We’ve then used this list to determine which states are the birthplace of the most NFL athletes, according to Betway.

Texas is home to the most NFL athletes of any state, having raised 2,645 of them. The top player from the Lone Star State is Von Miller, who currently plays as a linebacker for the Buffalo Bills.
California has once again graced a top-five ranking, coming in second, having been the birthplace of 2,672 pro football players. Patriots’ royalty Tom Brady is Cali’s finest NFL export, which is perhaps no surprise given he’s often regarded as the greatest quarterback of all time. In fact, Brady is first on our list of the top NFL players, and another Californian player, Aaron Rogers, is in third.
In third place is Florida, which is the home state of 1,723 NFL players. The Sunshine State’s top player is Matthew Stafford, who is the current quarterback for the LA Rams.
Ohio is in fourth (1,569) and Pennsylvania (1,511) is in fifth. When it comes to producing top NFL athletes, it’s the Northeastern states that aren’t doing well, with Vermont (10), New Hampshire (25), and Maine (27) all right down near the bottom of the list.

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