According to Google’s John Mueller, there is no requirement for a page to rank in the top 10 search result positions in order to be considered for a Featured Snippet position.

Shubham Davey posed the question, writing, “If a page isn’t ranking in the top 10 on SERPs, are those pages eligible for Featured snippets?”

On Twitter, John Mueller said, “I don’t think there’s any hard rule like that; that would be weird.”

Here are the tweets in question:

I didn't read the link, but I don't think there's any hard rule like that; that would be weird.

— John Mueller (official) · #MaybeABot (@JohnMu) August 22, 2023

Pete Meyers from Moz also added his thoughts:

I did a study to try to replicate this after, but it's 1-1/2 years old and involved measuring something we can't observe without connecting SERPs across days (i.e. it's complicated) — https://t.co/kLAei9CdGU

— Dr. Pete Meyers (@dr_pete) August 22, 2023