{"id":1617,"date":"2016-04-30T19:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T00:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tfootballstg.wpengine.com\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2016-10-28T14:24:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T19:24:26","slug":"88-5-2016-nfl-draft-picks-played-multiple-sports-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandbutter.io\/beta\/trackingfootball.com\/blog\/88-5-2016-nfl-draft-picks-played-multiple-sports-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"88.5% 2016 NFL Draft picks played multiple sports in high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 NFL Draft had the highest percentage of high school multiple sport athletes drafted since 2013. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/tfootballstg.wpengine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tracking Football<\/a>\u00a0research,\u00a0224 out of the 253 (88.5%) draftees had also participated in a sport other than football during their high school career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are the participation percentages by sport:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Track &amp; Field: 148 (58.5%)<\/p>\n<p>Basketball: 114 (45.1%)<\/p>\n<p>Baseball: 28 (11.1%<\/p>\n<p>Lacrosse: 5 (2.0%)<\/p>\n<p>Soccer: 2 (0.8%)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">High school multiple sport participation totals for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFLDraft2016?src=hash\">#NFLDraft2016<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/trckftbl?src=hash\">#trckftbl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2U6QT3NShm\">https:\/\/t.co\/2U6QT3NShm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/enYiQGmmuZ\">pic.twitter.com\/enYiQGmmuZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tracking Football \u00ae (@TrckFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrckFootball\/status\/726570054947467264\">May 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Track &amp; field was once again the most participated sport by NFL draft picks. Tracking Football&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/tfootballstg.wpengine.com\/why\/player-athletic-index\/\" target=\"_blank\">Player Athletic Index score<\/a> is an athletic analytic that factors height, weight, position, and track &amp; field data to evaluate the raw athleticism of football players from 0.0 &#8211; 5.0. The 2016 draft class average PAI was 3.6 \/ 5.0, up from 3.4 \/ 5.0 in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Player Athletic Index score breakdown:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>5.0 PAI: 11 (4.3%)<\/p>\n<p>4.9-4.0 PAI: 35 (13.8%)<\/p>\n<p>3.9-3.0 PAI: 64 (25.3%)<\/p>\n<p>2.9-2.0 PAI: 29 (11.4%)<\/p>\n<p>1.9-1.0 PAI: 3 \u00a0(1.1%)<\/p>\n<p><strong>There were more than twice as many draftees that played 3 sports than those that specialized in football during high school:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Football Only: 29 \/ 253 (11.5%)<\/p>\n<p>2 Sports: 144 \/ 253 (56.9%)<\/p>\n<p>3 Sports: 74 \/ 523 (29.2%)<\/p>\n<p>4 Sports: 6 \/ 253 (2.4%)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 3rd round had the highest percentage of draftees that played another sport:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Round 1: 26 \/ 31 (83.8%)<\/p>\n<p>Round 2: 31 \/ 32 (96.9%)<\/p>\n<p>Round 3: 34 \/ 35 (97.1%)<\/p>\n<p>Round 4: 36 \/ 41 (87.8%)<\/p>\n<p>Round 5: 30 \/ 36 (83.3%)<\/p>\n<p>Round 6: 38 \/ 46 (82.6%)<\/p>\n<p>Round 7: 29 \/ 32 (90.6%)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defensive linemen and defensive backs had the highest percentages of draftees that played multiple sports:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OL: 35 \/ 41 (85.4%)<\/p>\n<p>DL: 38 \/ 40 (95.0%)<\/p>\n<p>LB: 29 \/ 36 (80.6%)<\/p>\n<p>WR: 27 \/ 31 (87.1%)<\/p>\n<p>CB: 27 \/ 30 (90.0%)<\/p>\n<p>RB: 21 \/ 23 (91.3%)<\/p>\n<p>DB: 20 \/ 21 (95.2%)<\/p>\n<p>QB: 11 \/ 15 (73.3%)<\/p>\n<p>TE: 11 \/ 11 (100%)<\/p>\n<p>SPEC: 5 \/ 5 (100%)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Position breakdown of all <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFLDraft2016?src=hash\">#NFLDraft2016<\/a> picks that played multiple sports in high school. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2U6QT3NShm\">https:\/\/t.co\/2U6QT3NShm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q5qskxX8Bv\">pic.twitter.com\/q5qskxX8Bv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tracking Football \u00ae (@TrckFootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrckFootball\/status\/726802373499191296\">May 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 NFL Draft had the highest percentage of high school multiple sport athletes drafted since 2013. According to Tracking Football\u00a0research,\u00a0224 out of the 253 (88.5%) draftees had also participated in a sport other than football during their high school career. Below are the participation percentages by sport: Track &amp; Field: 148 (58.5%) Basketball: 114 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":1618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,36],"tags":[184,222],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>88.5% 2016 NFL Draft picks played multiple sports in high school -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/brandbutter.io\/beta\/trackingfootball.com\/blog\/88-5-2016-nfl-draft-picks-played-multiple-sports-high-school\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"88.5% 2016 NFL Draft picks played multiple sports in high school -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The 2016 NFL Draft had the highest percentage of high school multiple sport athletes drafted since 2013. 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