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According to Tracking Football research, 91% of 2018 NFL Draft 1st round picks played another sport in high school. 2018 1st round totals: Multisport: 29/32 – 91% Track & Field: 22/32 – 69% Basketball: 17/32 – 53% Baseball: 4/32 – 13% Lacrosse: 1/30 – 3% 4 sports: 1 – 3% 3 sports: 13 – 41% […]
Tracking Football has been researching the high school multiple sport participation background of NFL Draft picks for over a decade. Read below for our 2018 Draft information. 2018 1st round totals: Multisport: 29/32 Track & Field: 22/32 Basketball: 17/32 Baseball: 4/32 Lacrosse: 1/32 2018 1st round pick by pick: Pick 1 Browns – QB Baker […]
1,162 out of 1,321 (88%) Those are the numbers of players invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, since 2015, that were high school multi-sport athletes according to a recent study conducted by Tracking Football. More importantly, the average Player Athletic Index score of invited players over the past four years was significantly higher than that of DI-FBS […]
102 out of 106 (96%) players on active Super Bowl LII team rosters played multiple sports in high school, according to a recent study conducted by Tracking Football. Number of sports played in high school: 4 Sports: 4 (4%) 3 Sports: 33 (31%) 2 Sports: 65 (61%) Football only: 4 (4%) Participation percentages by sport: […]
Tracking Football is pleased to announce a partnership with Europe’s Elite. Europe’s Elite is an international leader in the football skills, combine, and events camps industry. This partnership will provide European athletes with unique athletic evaluations and top notch skill development. In addition, college football evaluators will gain access to athletic analytic insights, […]
NCAA Division I coaches are permitted to subscribe to Tracking Football for football scouting services. We currently have FBS clients in the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, MAC, Independent and Pac-12 conferences. Tracking Football focuses on the analysis of athletic data when evaluating football players. Our databases have 15,000 current high school football player profiles […]
Tracking Football finds that 36 of 39 (92%) college football players named finalists by National College Football Awards Association participated in multiple sports during high school. Number of sports played in high school: 4 sports: 3 (8%) 3 sports: 12 (31%) 2 sports: 21 (54%) 1 sport: 3 (8%) Sports participation in high school: Track & […]
The NFL now has NextGen Stats which record and calculate player running speed during games. The concept is new and interesting…gives viewers an idea of how fast a player is in pads during a variety of play scenarios. The question is how much does this data really tell us that we didn’t already know? For example, […]
Joe Lemire (SportTechie.com) spent the past week putting together a nice feature on Tracking Football’s PAI Score and scouting service. Link: Startup Scouting Service Uses Track & Field Data To Evaluate Football Prospects
The Player Athletic Index (PAI) scores the raw athleticism of a HS football player by taking into account height, weight, position and track and field data. Our 0.0 – 5.0 PAI metric allows college scouts to evaluate prospects in an objective and unbiased manner. Below is a list of week 3 all-conference players of the […]