I can't compare a different sport on a professional level to what we're talking about in this instance.
I would just say, for my money as a recruiter, FL and GA have three star players to go around all of the Power Five and G-Five schools and then some. Crusader is basically saying that the deeper a state you're in, the better a three star player is probably going to wind up being and will likely contribute serious reps in college. I agree with this entirely and have found it to be the case year after year. A lot of these dudes would be four star players if they played in North Carolina or Illinois.
24/7 even has him rated as one of their highest three star players. I don't know what he's missing for them not to be a low four star, but the coaches are looking right by it and offering him.
Well, it's far from conclusive but when I look at the states of origin for NFL players circa 2017 vs. the states of origin for 2020 "blue chip" recruits as defined by Saturdays Down South, the states of Florida, Georgia, and Texas are all overrepresented in the blue chip prospect lists vs. the NFL population*.
Again, that's not definitive by any stretch of the imagination but now I'm curious to find an answer to this question.
*The opposite is true for California which, based on this very limited sample, turns out a higher proportion of NFL players than it does blue chip prospects.
