Which states have proven to be the most fertile recruiting grounds for SEC schools at specific positions?
That was the question we hoped to answer this week by breaking down the conference’s 3,762 signees between 2006 and 2016 by home state and position and then tallying the numbers.
Today we will examine defensive positions after taking a look at the offense in a post on Thursday.
As with Thursday’s post, here are a few notes before we get started:
First, we tallied players not by the position they actually played in college, but by the position where ESPN listed them as recruits.