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The original was posted on /r/nfl by /u/DiggingNoMore on 2025-06-20 15:05:01+00:00.
Summing up the weight of all players to have attended a given school,1 here are the total pounds of alumni that went on to play in the NFL:
| Rank | School | Weight of all NFL-bound Alumni (pounds) | 2025 Pounds Drafted2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Notre Dame | 137,618 | 1,395 |
| 2 | USC | 122,091 | 708 |
| 3 | Ohio St. | 115,790 | 3,483 |
| 4 | Michigan | 102,298 | 1,926 |
| 5 | Penn St. | 97,914 | 1,178 |
| 6 | Alabama | 95,421 | 1,820 |
| 7 | LSU | 93,774 | 2,072 |
| 8 | Oklahoma | 90,112 | 441 |
| 9 | Georgia | 89,406 | 3,237 |
| 10 | Nebraska | 88,764 | 565 |
Now, you might just say, “Those are just the schools with the most draftees”. Indeed you have a point. Notre Dame has the most NFL-playing alumni with 608 and USC is second with 533. And so on down the list.
So what we really want to know is: “Whose alumni is the heaviest on average?” Using a 25-player minimum, here it is:
| Rank | School | Average Weight of NFL-bound Alumni |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Mississippi CC | 244.6 |
| 2 | Northwest Mississippi CC | 244.2 |
| 3 | East. Washington | 244.1 |
| 4 | North Dakota St. | 240.9 |
| 5 | BYU | 240.4 |
| 6 | Ala-Birmingham | 239.8 |
| 7 | Western Michigan | 238.9 |
| 8 | Mississippi St. | 238.6 |
| 9 | East. Michigan | 237.8 |
| 10 | Illinois St. | 237.5 |
Two Mississippi schools sitting at the top and a third one also coming in the top ten. The only two of those top ten to have any players drafted in 2025 were North Dakota St. (with a 305-pounder in the 1st round and a 212-pounder in the 6th round) and Western Michigan (with a 190-pounder in the 6th round). If you want to know about the lightest players, it’s a bunch of schools whose alumni pretty much all played in the 1920s. Chicago has the lowest average (25-player minimum), at 191 pounds. And which school has the heaviest average without a minimum player count? That’d be ITESM Montery, with one 361-pound player.
- If an NFL player played for multiple schools, his weight counts in each school’s total.
- Not all of these players (read: pounds) will actually play in the NFL. It remains to be seen who actually makes a roster, so they’re not included in the totals.