The Pipeline · Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Football Players at FCS Programs

402 Pennsylvania kids are on FCS football rosters right now. The high schools feeding them, the programs recruiting them, and the seven-step playbook to put your kid on next year's list.

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402

PA Athletes On FCS Rosters

63

FCS Programs Recruiting PA

287

PA High Schools Feeding FCS

How many Pennsylvania high school football players actually land on FCS college rosters? Real numbers, not guesses. Right now, 402 Pennsylvania kids play FCS football across 63 programs, coming out of 287 Pennsylvania high schools. Kyle Monangai went from Don Bosco Prep, overlooked by Power-4 programs, to Rutgers Big Ten captain to the 2025 Chicago Bears. His older brother Kevin walked the same kind of road first, Villanova to the Eagles and Vikings as a player, then the Giants as a coach. Kevin coached his own brother through that road; that is why we built RawRecruit. These counts come from current 2025 FCS football rosters. Below: the Pennsylvania high schools sending the most kids, the FCS programs recruiting hardest here, the methodology, and the questions parents ask us most.

“The overlooked majority of HS athletes. The kids and parents nobody is calling first, who still want their kid on a roster like the ones above.

Kevin Monangai, Founder, RawRecruit

Former NFL running back (Eagles, Vikings)

Former NFL coach (Giants)

01

The Feeders

Top Pennsylvania High Schools Feeding FCS Football

  1. 01Malvern Prep
    9Players
  2. 02North Allegheny
    8Players
  3. 03Upper St. Clair
    7Players
  4. 04Montour
    5Players
  5. 05Mount Lebanon
    5Players

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The Destinations

Top FCS Programs Recruiting Pennsylvania Football

01

Saint Francis

43

PA Players

Head Coach

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02

Duquesne

36

PA Players

GG

Greg Gattuso

Associate Head Coach – Defense

Verified

03

Villanova

30

PA Players

MF

Mark Ferrante

Thomas and Diane Treacy Endowed Football Head Coach

Verified

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Real Outcome

One Brother, The Same Road

The 402 number above is not theoretical. Kevin's younger brother Kyle ran the same road out of Pennsylvania, walked into Rutgers, captained a Big Ten roster, and got drafted in the seventh round of the 2025 NFL Draft.

  1. 01

    Don Bosco Prep

    Overlooked by Power-4

  2. 02

    Rutgers

    Big Ten captain

  3. 03

    2025 NFL Draft

    Round 7, Pick #233

  4. 04

    Chicago Bears

    Active roster

04

The Methodology

How We Count

Numbers come from publicly available 2025 FCS football rosters. We count any current player whose listed home state is Pennsylvania, school by school, season by season. The decision a family makes here is too big to plan around guesses, so we put the rosters in front of you.

05

The Conversation

Parents Ask Us

Q.01
How many Pennsylvania high school football players are currently on FCS rosters?
Right now, 402 Pennsylvania kids play FCS football, spread across 63 programs and sourced from 287 Pennsylvania high schools. Counts come from current 2025 rosters.
Q.02
Which FCS programs recruit the most from Pennsylvania?
Saint Francis leads with 43 Pennsylvania players on the current roster, followed by Duquesne (36) and Villanova (30). The top three are listed above with the head coach for each program when verified. A free account opens the rest of the top ten.
Q.03
Which Pennsylvania high schools send the most players to FCS football?
Malvern Prep sits at the top with 9 current FCS football players, followed by North Allegheny (8), Upper St. Clair (7), Montour (5), Mount Lebanon (5). The full top 25 is on the page above.
Q.04
Is FCS football a realistic path for a Pennsylvania high school player?
Yes. With 402 Pennsylvania kids currently on FCS rosters across 63 programs, the path is busy and well worn. Scholarships at FCS are partial in football, so families plan around stacking academic aid on top of athletic aid.
Q.05
How does RawRecruit count Pennsylvania to FCS pipeline numbers?
We pull current 2025 FCS football rosters from public school athletics sites and count any player whose listed home state is Pennsylvania. Coach names show up only when verified inside our 35-day freshness window.
Q.06
What does my kid actually do with this list of high schools and programs?
The list is the input. The seven-step playbook is the action. Profile your kid's real numbers, build a target list off the programs above, send the email coaches actually read, and run the visit on full information. The full playbook lives at /guides/football/diy-recruiting and was written by Kevin from the same road he walked his brother Kyle through.
Q.07
We are not in Pennsylvania. Does the same playbook still apply for our state?
Yes. The seven-step playbook is sport-specific, not state-specific. The cohort and program list above are the Pennsylvania cut; the work a kid and parent do to reach FCS coaches is the same in every state. State pipeline pages for the rest of the country roll out next.
Q.08
What happens when a coach leaves a FCS program mid-cycle?
Coach names on this page only show up when our pipeline has verified them inside the last 35 days. When a head coach leaves, the slot reads as a transition note instead of a stale name; the program count and player numbers stay intact because those come from the roster, not the staff page. The list refreshes monthly.
Q.09
Why is RawRecruit giving away the rosters and coach contacts for free?
Because the data is the easy part. The hard part is keeping a school list current, filtering programs by your kid's real fit, and tracking coach records as staffs turn over every cycle. The free profile saves the work; the paid tiers exist for families who want deeper fit analytics. The free profile is enough for most.

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