Ranking each NCAA football conference and school on how much their former players make in the NFL.
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Organizing salary numbers by conference, college, and position provides an interesting look at where NFL talent comes from. A few notes:
- Salaries aren't a perfect indicator of talent, though better than draft or player numbers.
- Each player's salary is the average per year of their contract as reported by spotrac.com at the start of the season.
- Each player is attributed the college they finished with, so Russell Wilson is Wisconsin, not NC State.
- College's conferences are year-specific, so Miami's Andre Johnson is Big East (2002) while Jimmy Graham is ACC (2009).
- Let me know if you see any discrepancies.