Instead of doing a new set of state rankings this week while traveling, we are presenting our picks for the top 25 players from California high school football for the first 25 years of the current century. Many of them we’ve seen play in person. The No. 1 spot has gone to a current NFL […]
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All-Time NFL 1st Round Draft Picks
After three were chosen in the 2025 NFL Draft in Green Bay, led by top overall picks Mason Graham and Tetairoa McMillan both of Anaheim Servite, we have added that group to our all-time list of first-rounders that goes all the way back to the first draft in 1936. We also continue to track the...
State’s All-Time NFL 1st Rd Draft Picks
After this year’s 2022 NFL Draft, we have updated this all-time list. It might surprise some that the NFL Draft has been going on since 1936 and there were a lot of early years in which there were only 13 picks in the first round. We still have the highest players selected from a California...
All-Decade Football: 2000s
CalHiSports.com has been covering the best of California prep sports for over 40 years and in that time we’ve seen some great players on football fields in every corner of the state. Some lived up to all the hype surrounding them as prep players, while others never were able to duplicate their high school production...
The day Tyron Smith got launched
While going through 2006 Cal-Hi Sports newsletters for a different project, we came across our report in April of 2006 about a big discovery at the Southern California Nike combine that had been held on the weekend of April 16-18 at USC. The player many were talking about after the day was not known when […]
