When it comes to high school football, most associate Texas, California and Florida as the nation’s talent hotbeds. Particularly in popular culture, Texas high school football is seen as the driving force for entire communities.
Like, people care too much about it.
But Georgia is no slouch either as an NFL-talent-producing state. This is coming from someone whose Georgia high school played against Eric Berry and Cam Newton on consecutive weeks (it did not go well). But is Georgia high school football better than Texas?
Kansas City Chiefs teammates Patrick Mahomes and Mecole Hardman weren’t ready to see eye-to-eye on the issue.
The debate started when Hardman — who went to Elbert County High School (Ga.) — took exception to Mike Evans saying that Texas high school football was the best.
Dez Bryant, a Texas native himself, sided with Evans.
But Hardman would not back down on his claim, saying that an All-Star team from Georgia would beat the best from Texas.
It got to the point where Mahomes had to publicly question his teammate.
And the Super Bowl MVP poked fun at Hardman, just for good measure.
Strictly looking at the numbers, Florida (180), California (175) and Texas (137) produce the most active NFL players. But Georgia isn’t too far behind at 97 active NFL players. And Texas has nearly three times the population of Georgia.
So … maybe Hardman has a point?
Don’t sleep on Georgia.
