Is there a way to line up a player's college stats to their nfl stats?

[calebrichards]

I'm trying to get player data for college and their pro seasons but I'm not sure if this is possible right now. If there was a field that I could grab from the professional NFL player data that gave their college for a given year (FR or SR) or possibly their college player_id that could help. Having the player_id be different for both college and NFL I know is probably necessary but I need to match this data somehow.

I guess this might be useful in the other direction as well. Given player data in college a way to find their player_id in NFL or which team they were drafted to in the nfl would be useful.

Of course if there is a trick to get around this I would be very grateful to hear about it. Thanks in advance!

[roclark]

Hey @calebrichards, cool idea! This is not currently possible in this API, but I think it would be nice to add. I don't know if it would be wise to fully integrate the two, as that would add a lot of overhead, but perhaps linking the NFL/College player_id as you mention, then users can use that ID to pull the College/NFL stats (if they exist).

Thanks for sharing! I will try and include this with a future release!