“Verification” seems to be the buzz term in high school football recruiting right now. Football players and coaches are travelling to combines, camps, and tournaments in order to find out if a kid is “legitimate”. These events are being televised, tweeted, and turned into viral videos. These events have captured the attention of corporate interests. […]
Highlights on football recruiting
Want more insights from the Tracking Football team? Read our blog posts, which cover college football recruiting, NFL Combine, NFL Draft, and all the in-season action. This is the only place to find the multi-sport breakdown of players in the NFL Draft and athletic insights on the NFL Combine.
Player Athletic Index and B1G Football Recruiting II
TrackingFootball has researched the B1G Conference’s recruiting for the past two years and applied our proprietary Player Athletic Index (PAI) scores to each recruit. We applied PAI scores which measure a player’s overall athleticism based on height, weight, position, track & field data and multi-sport information. By comparing like data points we can arrive at objective scores […]
Player Athletic Index and B1G Football Recruiting
TrackingFootball has researched the B1G Conference’s recruiting for the past two years and applied our proprietary Player Athletic Index (PAI) scores to each recruit. We applied PAI scores which measure a player’s overall athleticism based on height, weight, position, track & field data and multi-sport information. By comparing like data points we can arrive at objective scores […]
2015 B1G Football Recruiting Breakdown – 84% Multiple Sports Participation
TrackingFootball has been a national leader in researching the high school multiple sports background of football players at all levels. We recently focused our attention on the 2015 recruiting classes of B1G football programs. Overall 84% of all B1G recruits had multiple sports backgrounds in high school. In addition there were more three sport athletes […]
Alabama football players showing up on the track
Matt Zenitz of al.com recently posted an article featuring 4 Alabama football players who recently completed their 2015 college track season. Anthony Averett, Tony Brown, Marlon Humphrey, and Bradley Sylve were also track participants in high school. Tracking Football has PAI scores on each of them from when they were being recruited. The PAI scores listed […]
The Republic (Columbus, IN) features TrackingFootball.com
Our hometown newspaper did a feature on TrackingFootball and the Player Athletic Index scoring system. East grads develop metric for gauging players’ ability Article brief: “In an era of specialization, multisport athletes have become fewer and fewer over the past couple of decades. But thanks to the work of a pair of Columbus East graduates, […]
Top 22 Heisman Winner Player Athletic Index Scores
Here is a list highlighting 22 of our top Player Athletic Index scores on Heisman Trophy winners from the past 60+ years. The information below reflects the player’s height, weight, position, and best track and field output from high school based on our research. The PAI is our proprietary player athletic scoring system. It is a […]
TrackingFootball.com highlighted in ESPN article
ESPN’s Inside Slant by Kevin Seifert: Think specialization aids NFL draft journey? Think again.
TrackingFootball.com and the Player Athletic Index featured in Forbes
Forbes blog article: What it means to youth sports that multi-sport athletes dominated the NFL Draft
TrackingFootball.com featured in USA Today High School Sports
USA Today’s article – No surprise here: Lots of prep multi-sport athletes in NFL Draft