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McGill Toolen

#157 in the country for NFL draft picks, of 1,411 high schools that have produced one — and #5 in Alabama.

2
NFL draftees
9% of 2010–2020 signees
3
College contributors
30% of skill recruits
30
Recruits tracked
every one listed below
2
Current commits
2026–27 classes

What it produces

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

WR
81 NFL
RB
31 NFL
CB
8
DL
2
EDGE
2
IOL
2
ATH
1
LB
1
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 McGill Toolen's classes were “supposed” to produce.

2
NFL picks
0.9
Expected
19
Recruits 201020

In line with what their ratings predicted.

2 picks against 0.9. A gap that size or bigger turns up 21% 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. McGill Toolen
Show every class as a table ▾
ClassSignees4–5★NFL
20272
20260
20250
20242
20231
20222
202111
202030
201930
201820
201741
201620
201500
201431
2013410
201200
201110

Notable alumni

PlayerPosCollegeOutcome
Ito SmithRBSouthern MissNFL draft (2018 R4)
Jalen TolbertWRSouth AlabamaNFL draft (2022 R3)
Marlon WilliamsWRUCFCollege contributor
CJ Evans Jr.RBAustin PeayCollege contributor

Every McGill Toolen signee

All 30 players McGill Toolen 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.

30 of 30 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
2017Jalen TolbertNFL draft2022 R3
2014Ito SmithNFL draft2018 R4
2023Anthony EagerCollege contributor
2022Bam McReynoldsCollege contributor
2020CJ Evans Jr.College contributor
2017Marlon WilliamsCollege contributor
2027Avrian PauleyToo recent to say
2027Anderson MilesToo recent to say
2024Shemar WelchToo recent to say
2024Will MilesToo recent to say
2022Braden TurnerToo recent to say
2021Jordan MosleyToo recent to say
2020Dallas Daffin
2020Korian Wilson
2019LD Cox
2019Sheldon Layman
2019Nick Ruggs
2018Eric Garror
2018Trey Simpson
2017Tre' Young
2017Brandon Hinton
2016Marcus Lucas
2016Brock Gould
2014Will Young
2014Herlandez Corley

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

SchoolSignedDraftees
South Alabama81
Southern Miss21
Louisiana20
Navy20
Northwestern20
Troy20
Air Force10
Alabama10

Current commits

RecruitPosCommitted toStars
Avrian PauleyDLAlabama3★
Anderson MilesEDGENavy

Other Alabama pipelines

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

Every Alabama 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.