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Despite Friday Night Lights portrayals, there’s a lot more geographic diversity in NFL prospects than you might think.

 

Happy NFL draft weekend!  As I’m sure you were asking yourself, I was thinking, “where do NFL players come from?” Are there strong spatial patterns of this distribution?  How do cultural forces impact the prevalence of a particular sport in a specific region?  It’s not as skewed to the South a you might think. 

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