Oregonians Per Capita And How It Stacks Up

So Justin "The Sports Idol" Myers of 1320 The Score in Eugene recently gave Ducks Attack a nice little publicity shot in the arm Tuesday afternoon at the end of his show and then left the airwaves with a challenge for us to do some research for him on Oregonians in the NFL.

With the task of finding out how many players are from Oregon per capita and then how well it stacks up against other states Ducks Attack went looking for the answer and found it.

Compiling date from NFLHS.com that gave a list of players from each state in the NFL and than 2007 population estimates found on Wikipedia Ducks Attack was able to compile this data.

Here is how the Top 10 turned out:

Rank	State	Players	Per Capita per 100,000 People
1	Washington DC	10	1.7
2	Mississippi	47	1.61
3	Louisiana	62	1.44
4	South Carolina	49	1.12
5	Alabama	46	0.99
6	Florida	169	0.93
7	Georgia	84	0.88
8	Virginia	56	0.73
9	Texas	173	0.72
10	Hawaii	8	0.62

Notice how many of the top 1o are in SEC country? All but 3 are not directly in SEC land and two more(Texas and DC) are borderline states. West Coast only has one school and its the islands of Hawaii.

The state of Oregon falls in at 30th;

Rank	State	Players	Per Capita per 100,000 People
30	Oregon	14	0.37

Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, and Illinois were all within one tenth or less of each other so its safe to say that these states are very similar when it comes to producing NFL talent.


To see how the entire nation shaped up, here you go:

Rank	State	Players	Per Capita per 100,000 People
1	Washington DC	10	1.7
2	Mississippi	47	1.61
3	Louisiana	62	1.44
4	South Carolina	49	1.12
5	Alabama	46	0.99
6	Florida	169	0.93
7	Georgia	84	0.88
8	Virginia	56	0.73
9	Texas	173	0.72
10	Hawaii	8	0.62
11	Nebraska	11	0.62
12	Arkansas	17	0.6
13	North Carolina	53	0.59
14	Washington	37	0.57
15	Ohio	65	0.57
16	California	198	0.54
17	Oklahoma	19	0.53
18	Pennsylvania	65	0.52
19	New Jersey	44	0.51
20	Missouri	29	0.49
21	North Dakota	3	0.47
22	Michigan	45	0.45
23	Alaska	3	0.44
24	Maryland	24	0.43
25	Iowa	13	0.43
26	Arizona	26	0.41
27	Kansas	11	0.4
28	Wisconsin	21	0.37
29	Tennessee	23	0.37
30	Oregon	14	0.37
31	Colorado	18	0.37
32	Illinois	47	0.36
33	Utah	9	0.34
34	Indiana	21	0.31
35	Kentucky	13	0.31
36	West Virginia	5	0.28
37	Idaho	4	0.26
38	Massachusettes	17	0.26
39	Deleware	2	0.21
40	Minnesota	11	0.21
41	Montana	2	0.21
42	New York	34	0.17
43	Connecticut	6	0.17
44	New Mexico	3	0.15
45	South Dakota	1	0.13
46	Nevada	3	0.12
47	Rhode Island	1	0.09
48	New Hampshire	1	0.08
49	Maine	0	0
50	Wyoming	0	0
51	Vermont	0	0