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Middletown

#157 in the country for NFL draft picks, of 1,411 high schools that have produced one — and #6 in Ohio.

2
NFL draftees
10% of 2010–2020 signees
3
College contributors
25% of skill recruits
45
Recruits tracked
every one listed below
10
Current commits
2026–27 classes

What it produces

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

WR
91 NFL
EDGE
71 NFL
S
6
QB
5
ATH
4
OT
4
RB
4
DL
2
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 Middletown's classes were “supposed” to produce.

2
NFL picks
1.3
Expected
20
Recruits 201020

In line with what their ratings predicted.

2 picks against 1.3. A gap that size or bigger turns up 38% 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. Middletown
Show every class as a table ▾
ClassSignees4–5★NFL
20275
20269
20252
20243
20231
20222
20212
202020
201900
201800
201710
201610
201520
2014322
2013210
201240
201100
201060

Notable alumni

PlayerPosCollegeOutcome
Chris GodwinWRPenn StateNFL draft (2017 R3)
Rick LeonardEDGEFlorida StateNFL draft (2018 R4)
Darius WadeQBBoston CollegeCollege contributor
Reese PoffenbargerQBOld DominionCollege contributor

Every Middletown signee

All 45 players Middletown 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.

45 of 45 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
2014Chris GodwinNFL draft2017 R3
2014Rick LeonardNFL draft2018 R4
2020Reese PoffenbargerCollege contributor
2014Darius WadeCollege contributor
2027DJ DavisToo recent to say
2027Jordan CriderToo recent to say
2027Jaiden DavisToo recent to say
2027Mekhi CorbinToo recent to say
2027Josiah Guiro-ScretchingToo recent to say
2026Jordan VannToo recent to say
2026BJ GarrettToo recent to say
2026Zymir ReedToo recent to say
2026Dorian RutledgeToo recent to say
2026Darius PopeToo recent to say
2026Ace CooperToo recent to say
2026JD SingletaryToo recent to say
2026Laaren CornwallToo recent to say
2026Clinton LeeToo recent to say
2025Maximillian JohnsonToo recent to say
2025Mason SmithToo recent to say
2024Tristen GrahamToo recent to say
2024Ronnell DavisToo recent to say
2024Austin TroyerToo recent to say
2023Anwar O'nealToo recent to say
2022Braden DavisToo 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 Middletown's talent, and how those recruits fared — a revealed pipeline (where they signed, not offers).

SchoolSignedDraftees
Bowling Green40
Cincinnati40
Delaware40
Akron20
Kentucky20
Syracuse20
Florida State11
Penn State11

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
Jordan VannSLouisville3★
DJ DavisATHWisconsin3★
BJ GarrettWRSyracuse3★
Jordan CriderSIowa State3★
Jaiden DavisDLNorthwestern3★
Zymir ReedIllinoisWest VirginiaToledoWRKent State3★
Dorian RutledgeBoston CollegePittsburghRutgersSDelaware3★
Darius PopeIllinoisMarylandVirginiaWRTemple3★
Ace CooperWRBall State3★
JD SingletaryBowling GreenCincinnatiMississippi StateEDGERice3★

Other Ohio pipelines

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

Every Ohio 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.