Let us go through the average lifespan of an aspiring professional football player’s career.
You grow up with the game. From Pop Warner to middle school to high school, your mind is stuck on the gridiron and in between the sidelines. If you are lucky, you get recruited and take your talents to the next level, but college is not the end for you.
The dream is to be among the best of the best in the game, and that can only be found in a single place — the NFL, the only professional football league that matters.