Stepping Up to the Plate :
Pedorthics and Professional Athletes
By Erick Janisse , C . Ped ., CO
According to the National Collegiate Athletic Association ( NCAA ), only 6 percent of high school seniors who play football will be good enough to eventually play for an NCAA member school . Of those , only one in 50 , or 1.7 percent , of NCAA senior football players will get drafted by an NFL team — that ’ s one out of every 1,250 high school senior football players . Not great odds . For a high school basketball player to reach the NBA , the odds are even worse : less than 0.03 percent make it to the show .
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