NFL players can come from anywhere -- the Detroit Lions' roster proves that. There are several former top-rated high school recruits but also a Division II player. There is an FCS star and an NFL star who didn’t learn anything about the game until he enrolled in college.
But NFL players almost always come from college football and those college football players usually start in high school. So on national signing day, as we’ve done for the past few years, we look at where Lions players were ranked -- offensively and defensively -- before they went to college.