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Santa Margarita Catholic

#157 in the country for NFL draft picks, of 1,411 high schools that have produced one — and #17 in California.

2
NFL draftees
9% of 2010–2020 signees
4
College contributors
33% of skill recruits
55
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.

TE
51 NFL
OT
21 NFL
QB
8
WR
8
DL
7
IOL
6
EDGE
5
LB
4
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 Santa Margarita Catholic's classes were “supposed” to produce.

2
NFL picks
2.4
Expected
22
Recruits 201020

In line with what their ratings predicted.

2 picks against 2.4. A gap that size or bigger turns up 55% 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, 20122027. Santa Margarita Catholic
Show every class as a table ▾
ClassSignees4–5★NFL
20273
2026113
20257
20243
202331
202211
202141
202020
201900
201850
2017321
2016620
201510
201410
2013410
2012111

Notable alumni

PlayerPosCollegeOutcome
Max TuerkOTUSCNFL draft (2016 R3)
Grant CalcaterraTEOklahomaNFL draft (2022 R6)
KJ CostelloQBStanfordCollege contributor
Sean ModsterWRBoise StateCollege contributor
Chad MagyarRBUNLVCollege contributor

Every Santa Margarita Catholic signee

All 55 players Santa Margarita Catholic 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.

55 of 55 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
2017Grant CalcaterraNFL draft2022 R6
2012Max TuerkNFL draft2016 R3
2023Jaxon PotterCollege contributor
2018Chad MagyarCollege contributor
2016KJ CostelloCollege contributor
2014Sean ModsterCollege contributor
2027Isaia VandermadeToo recent to say
2027Luke GazzanigaToo recent to say
2027Matthew SmithToo recent to say
2026Simote KatoangaToo recent to say
2026Trent MosleyToo recent to say
2026Jonah SmithToo recent to say
2026Jayden CrowderToo recent to say
2026Logan HirouToo recent to say
2026Manoah FaupusaToo recent to say
2026Niniva NicholsonToo recent to say
2026Trace JohnsonToo recent to say
2026Dash FifitaToo recent to say
2026Joshua HolaniToo recent to say
2026Leki HolaniToo recent to say
2025Elijah VaikonaToo recent to say
2025JJ HanneToo recent to say
2025Jonah SmithToo recent to say
2025Sean Embree Jr.Too recent to say
2025John GazzanigaToo 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 Santa Margarita Catholic's talent, and how those recruits fared — a revealed pipeline (where they signed, not offers).

SchoolSignedDraftees
USC81
UCLA50
Arizona30
Washington State30
Boise State20
California20
Navy20
Nevada20

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
Simote KatoangaUSCAlabamaAuburnDLUSC4★
Trent MosleyMichiganUCLAMichigan StateWRUSC4★
Jonah SmithMichiganWest VirginiaUCLAWRUCLA4★
Isaia VandermadeDLUSC3★
Jayden CrowderCBUSC3★
Logan HirouWashingtonMichiganCaliforniaSUCLA3★
Luke GazzanigaTEKansas3★
Manoah FaupusaUCLAWashingtonBaylorDLArizona3★
Matthew SmithQBVanderbilt3★
Niniva NicholsonSan Diego StateUCLATCUIOLArizona State3★

Other California pipelines

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

Every California 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.