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Mallard Creek

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

4
NFL draftees
8% of 2010–2020 signees
4
College contributors
27% of skill recruits
62
Recruits tracked
every one listed below
0
Current commits
2026–27 classes

What it produces

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

EDGE
101 NFL
OT
61 NFL
DL
51 NFL
RB
21 NFL
WR
9
CB
8
ATH
6
S
5
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 Mallard Creek's classes were “supposed” to produce.

4
NFL picks
3.9
Expected
44
Recruits 201020

In line with what their ratings predicted.

4 picks against 3.9. A gap that size or bigger turns up 56% 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
'12
'14
'16
'18
'20
'22
'24
'26
college signees per recruiting class, 20112027. Mallard Creek
Show every class as a table ▾
ClassSignees4–5★NFL
20270
20260
20253
20243
20233
20220
20212
20201011
201960
201831
2017720
2016710
201540
201451
2013420
2012311
2011210

Notable alumni

PlayerPosCollegeOutcome
D.J. HumphriesOTFloridaNFL draft (2015 R1)
Trenton SimpsonEDGEClemsonNFL draft (2023 R3)
Jordan DavisDLGeorgiaNFL draft (2022 R1)
Jaylen SamuelsRBNC StateNFL draft (2018 R5)
Marquez NorthWRTennesseeCollege contributor
Marquise WilliamsQBNorth CarolinaCollege contributor
Jela DuncanRBDukeCollege contributor
Elijah MetcalfWRMiddle TennesseeCollege contributor

Every Mallard Creek signee

All 62 players Mallard Creek 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.

62 of 62 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
2020Trenton SimpsonNFL draft2023 R3
2018Jordan DavisNFL draft2022 R1
2014Jaylen SamuelsNFL draft2018 R5
2012D.J. HumphriesNFL draft2015 R1
2021Elijah MetcalfCollege contributor
2013Marquez NorthCollege contributor
2012Jela DuncanCollege contributor
2011Marquise WilliamsCollege contributor
2025Brandon RoseToo recent to say
2025Nassor AshenafiToo recent to say
2025Justin WattsToo recent to say
2024Ben BlackToo recent to say
2024Umar RockheadToo recent to say
2024Tyrek BrownToo recent to say
2023Michael ShortToo recent to say
2023Ishaun Abdul AliToo recent to say
2023Devin VaughtToo recent to say
2021Coleman JeffcoatToo recent to say
2020Quentin Williams
2020Jaidyn Denis
2020Arabee Muslim
2020Josh Ilaoa
2020Keydrell Lewis
2020Uriah Greene
2020Elijah Culp

“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 Mallard Creek's talent, and how those recruits fared — a revealed pipeline (where they signed, not offers).

SchoolSignedDraftees
Charlotte50
NC State41
Eastern Kentucky30
Gardner-Webb30
North Carolina30
Western Carolina30
Florida21
Campbell20

Current commits

No current (2026–27) commits on record.

Other North Carolina pipelines

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

Every North Carolina 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.