Last week we took a look at the quarterback high school recruits produced in the Midwest that ended up at Midwestern schools. The takeaway from that was 1. Kyle Orton is vastly underrated, and 2. Midwestern quarterbacks don’t do so well in the NFL.
Today we’ll look at the blue chip quarterback recruits who were in the 2009-2015 recruiting classes. That seemingly arbitrary stopping point of 2015, by the way, is because that was the last recruiting class that had a blue chip quarterback graduate from college.
Let’s review the parameters of this exercise:
- I’m defining the Midwest the same way the US Census Bureau defines it: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.