There are a lot of kids out there who dream of playing football in the National Football League. For many of those kids their dream may never come true. Not because they do not want it bad enough but because they just do not have what it takes. These choices, believe it or not, start with high school football recruiting.

Many people think that an athletic career has its roots in college, and for some kids that might be true. But for the majority of people who do make it all the way, it is high school that most kids get their starts. This is an age that kids turn into men and that they learn a great deal about who they are as an individual.

That is really the story of how to make it to the big leagues. The story of how other people can help. These kids have to start taking their dreams very seriously way before high school. They need to start being serious in middle school. They start playing in about 7th grade. But they can start earlier than that with pop Warner teams.

So for the scouts that find the kids early, these are the traits they are looking for. They want to get the kids that are playing middle school sports sure. But they will sometimes find kids that are not playing the sport and try and talk them into switching from maybe baseball to football. The colleges pay close attention to all of this.

Once they get into high school they start to have a more difficult time with things. Everything becomes a lot harder for them than it used to be because life gets harder. They will have a lot more work to do academically and they will also be putting more time in on the field as well. They will be working harder than ever.

Some of them can also see how much talent they actually have. Some of them handle it very well and are very humble and modest about their ability. Yet still others handle it all very poorly. The scouts will look for these things out of the players and unless the person is so good that they are above and beyond everyone else, these things can ruin their chances.

That is exactly why all of these scouts look at these various things that take place in their lives. They want to see how they handle these issues while they are young because it is a good indication of how they will deal with them as they get older. Nobody wants a person who will turn out to be a greedy jerk.

As the players are found by the high school football recruiting teams they are usually given a decision to make. They are given the choice between playing football for the rest of their career or doing whatever else they might want to do. This is a great way to see who has the drive to make it and they find out pretty fast who has the right stuff.