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DeSoto

#29 in the country for NFL draft picks, of 1,411 high schools that have produced one — and #4 in Texas.

4
NFL draftees
6% of 2010–2020 signees
3
College contributors
10% of skill recruits
104
Recruits tracked
every one listed below
5
Current commits
2026–27 classes

What it produces

Every college signee since 2010 by position group, and how many of them were drafted.

WR
231 NFL
RB
121 NFL
IOL
91 NFL
S
91 NFL
CB
13
DL
9
LB
7
OT
6
draftedsigned with a college program

Did its recruits beat their ratings?

Every recruit's odds of being drafted, from his composite rating and position group, fit within his own signing class — added up, that is what DeSoto's classes were “supposed” to produce.

4
NFL picks
6.1
Expected
66
Recruits 201020

In line with what their ratings predicted.

4 picks against 6.1. A gap that size or bigger turns up 24% of the time at a school this size by chance alone.

And chance gets 170 attempts: about 9 of the schools here clear that bar on luck. Corrected for that, no high school in this data separates from its recruits' ratings.

Class by class

Whether the pipeline is opening or closing — the one question a February class ranking cannot answer, because nobody goes back to it.

4–5★ signeesall other college signees
'10
'12
'14
'16
'18
'20
'22
'24
'26
college signees per recruiting class, 20102027. DeSoto
Show every class as a table ▾
ClassSignees4–5★NFL
202732
202621
202562
202461
202381
20222
202192
202040
2019510
2018810
20171032
2016820
201570
201441
2013510
2012720
2011210
2010831

Notable alumni

PlayerPosCollegeOutcome
Shemar TurnerDLTexas A&MNFL draft (2025 R2)
Ed IngramIOLLSUNFL draft (2022 R2)
Byron Murphy IIDLTexasNFL draft (2024 R1)
Marcus MurphyRBMissouriNFL draft (2015 R7)
Laviska ShenaultWRColoradoNFL draft (2020 R2)
Howard WilsonSHoustonNFL draft (2017 R4)
K.D. NixonWRColoradoCollege contributor
Akile DavisWRBYUCollege contributor
Antoinne JimmersonRBNorth TexasCollege contributor

Every DeSoto signee

All 104 players DeSoto has sent to a college football program since 2010 — what they were rated, where they signed, and what happened next. The table above is the honour roll; this is the whole list.

104 of 104 signees since 2010. “Too recent to say” is the 2021 class and later — they have not had a draft to be in yet, which is not the same as not making it.

ClassPlayerWhat happened
2021Shemar TurnerNFL draft2025 R2
2021Byron Murphy IINFL draft2024 R1
2017Ed IngramNFL draft2022 R2
2017Laviska ShenaultNFL draft2020 R2
2014Howard WilsonNFL draft2017 R4
2010Marcus MurphyNFL draft2015 R7
2023Johntay CookCollege contributor
2023Quintrevion WisnerCollege contributor
2022Stephon JohnsonCollege contributor
2017K.D. NixonCollege contributor
2015Akile DavisCollege contributor
2011Antoinne JimmersonCollege contributor
2027SaRod BakerToo recent to say
2027K'Adrian RedmondToo recent to say
2027Dhillon McGeeToo recent to say
2026Ethan FeasterToo recent to say
2026Jerbralon StewartToo recent to say
2025Daylon SingletonToo recent to say
2025Tiger Riden Jr.Too recent to say
2025Sael ReyesToo recent to say
2025Keylan AbramsToo recent to say
2025Kelden RyanToo recent to say
2025Byron WashingtonToo recent to say
2024Mario BufordToo recent to say
2024Brandon BookerToo recent to say

“College contributor” is measured from offence-skill usage and, from 2021, defensive production — so a lineman who started four years shows as neither. NFL draft covers every position. A player is listed under the college he SIGNED with, which is not always the one he was drafted from.

Where its players go

The colleges that land the most of DeSoto's talent, and how those recruits fared — a revealed pipeline (where they signed, not offers).

SchoolSignedDraftees
Texas71
Colorado51
North Texas50
Oklahoma State50
Baylor40
SMU40
TCU40
Texas State40

Current commits

“Projects to fit” is the “should go” beside the “did go”: among the programs at his level, the ones whose record best matches his profile — development at his position, territory, roster need. Descriptive fit, not a prediction of where he signs.

RecruitPosCommitted toStars
Ethan FeasterMichiganOklahomaTexasWRUSC4★
SaRod BakerRBTexas Tech4★
K'Adrian RedmondDLTexas Tech4★
Dhillon McGeeCBPenn State3★
Jerbralon StewartUtahUTSAHoustonIOLNew Mexico3★

Other Texas pipelines

The schools this one is measured against — same state, nearest record.

Every Texas high school →

Descriptive hindsight, not a forecast. Draft outcomes cover all positions (2010–2020 signing classes — each has the full five drafts behind it); the college-contributor count covers offense-skill positions (2010–21), where we have production data. A school's own history is not an input to any projection on this site: across 5,852 programs, where a recruit went to high school adds nothing to what his rating already says. How this is measured.