How many football players
get drafted to the NFL?
Fermi Book
Where to start?
Frist one must know how many D1 and
D2 colleges there are:
308
How many football players
are there on a college team?
Approximately 76
How many college players
are there?
In all there are 308 Colleges and 76
players Per Team and that equals
to 23408 college players
Now, how many of those players make
it to the NFL through the draft?
First we have to know how many
teams are there
There are 32 teams in the NFL.
How many players get
drafted every year to a
team?
Approximately 8
Also assume there is about
one walk on for each team.
ThaT’s all equal To
32*8+32=288
Out of 23408 players only 288
get drafted to the NFL
ThaT’s only abouT 1.2% of all college
players!