28 of 31 1st round picks played multiple sports in high school

Not saying I agree on playing just one sport but how many of their 2nd sport was track?

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how many of their 2nd sport was track

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What do you have against track? It's during the offseason, keeps you in better shape than baseball and requires more athleticism than any of the other offseason sports (not including basketball because football often runs into basketball season).

I'd say Football and Basketball most likely.

I don't have anything against track but football players sprinting in the offseason hardly counts as a second sport.

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Baseball was for those in the spring who concentrated on baseball alone.

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We had 3 guys from our high school make it to the majors in baseball and 2 of 3 played baseball and football in high school. One even played both sports in college.

The other was a travel ball kid that was a 1st Rd pick out of HS. That was expected from when he was 15, so it was a no brainer to keep him focused on baseball.

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Here's a piece on how it can be harmful for high school athletes to play only one sport too early in search of a scholarship

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I would be interested to see the numbers on football players or athletes in other sports that only played one sport that got scholarships. There are over 10,000 division 1 football players. The NFL draft accounts for less than 200. Taking a sampling of 31 out of the larger group seems disingenuous and a bit skewed. They are the elite of the sport and probably excel athletically at everything they do. I get that they want kids to broaden their experiences. But there is a lot of value in keeping to just one sport (like tennis, golf, gymnastics, swimming, etc.. )..

I agree that one sport is not really the way to go.

However, let's be honest. Most of these guys are natural freak athletes with God given size and speed.

The type of kids who resort to the one sport thing are usually wealthier white kids who are trying to overcome their lack of natural athleticism by fine tuning a very specific skill set.

I saw the breakdown. It is football with basketball and/or track for the most part. Yes, the top athletes have more leverage by saying "this is what I am going to do" and still play. Baseball seems to be the biggest one that needs an attitude change and soccer needs to move their season so it doesn't interfere with everything (move soccer to the fall so you can play soccer and baseball).

That is my point. That needs to change. Soccer and baseball put out this BS like it HAS to be done all year.

great athletes were good enough to play two sports well.

I am astonished.

Joe Montana had a scholarship offer to play basketball for NC State.