Every year they list the recruiting rankings of all the starters on the two Super Bowl participants. This year 11 of the 44 were not rated at all coming out of high school. How were that many missed by the " experts " ?
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Truth be told, if you sit next to most hs coaches, they will hype up their player almost every time. Every kid would be a5 star using that method.Because projecting how an 18yo kid is going to develop in college, let alone the NFL. Is at best imperfect and at worst impossible.
it’s wildly amusing listening to “recruiting gurus” and “message board geniuses” drone on and on about these ridiculous star rankings. When, truth be told, you could sit down with their HS coach for 15 minutes and get a more accurate profile.
I am a million miles from a great talent evaluator, but when Artur Sitowski a bench warmer at IMG Academy, and now at Rutgers, gets the same 4 star rating as Lamar Jackson, the sickest athlete I’ve ever seen, or coached against, you know the whole “projection thing” is kind of a joke.
Because projecting how an 18yo kid is going to develop in college, let alone the NFL. Is at best imperfect and at worst impossible.
it’s wildly amusing listening to “recruiting gurus” and “message board geniuses” drone on and on about these ridiculous star rankings. When, truth be told, you could sit down with their HS coach for 15 minutes and get a more accurate profile.
I am a million miles from a great talent evaluator, but when Artur Sitowski a bench warmer at IMG Academy, and now at Rutgers, gets the same 4 star rating as Lamar Jackson, the sickest athlete I’ve ever seen, or coached against, you know the whole “projection thing” is kind of a joke.
A lot of them are misses. Some play terrible competition or come from small towns and don’t get a lot of press. Some do not take their own recruitment seriously so they don’t even send tapes. Others are just simply underrated and when they get to college they blow up. Most just have tremendous work ethic and it pays off in the long run and always will make some a superstar. Some of them are underrated because the recruitIng sites suck and place overemphasis on things like height and weight which for many NFL superstars just put a chip on their shoulder. It sounds like this year‘s Heisman Trophy winner was told he was too small many times. The joke is on the haters. Recruiting is a crapshoot. It is very very difficult to gauge potential when most of that potential is solely based on desire to be great. Characteristics like perseverance, grit, mental fortitude, etc. are not measured at all and play no role in star rankings. Talent is a good measuring stick because it matters a lot. But the greatest NFL players in history we’re probably not five star recruits. That’s mostly because the vast majority of recruits are not five star recruits and the fact that most five star kids never end up great or never really had talent to begin with. Dayne Crist vs Tom Brady as recruits for example. It’s a joke.Not necessarily misses. Some kids keep growing and developing in college, some don’t. And there’s no way to predict that.
Didn’t realize nfl recruits kids out of high school? Clemson Ohio state Alabama dominating recruiting stars and dominating on the field.Every year they list the recruiting rankings of all the starters on the two Super Bowl participants. This year 11 of the 44 were not rated at all coming out of high school. How were that many missed by the " experts " ?
People have a hard time understanding thisKids don’t stop growing at 18.
But as a reminder,you Are always going to get a large amount of 3 stars and no stars that outperform their rating. The pool of 2-3 stars is just too big. There are only around 350 4-5 star players every year. There are thousands of 2-3 stars every year. It’s a pure numbers game.
Because projecting how an 18yo kid is going to develop in college, let alone the NFL. Is at best imperfect and at worst impossible.
it’s wildly amusing listening to “recruiting gurus” and “message board geniuses” drone on and on about these ridiculous star rankings. When, truth be told, you could sit down with their HS coach for 15 minutes and get a more accurate profile.
I am a million miles from a great talent evaluator, but when Artur Sitowski a bench warmer at IMG Academy, and now at Rutgers, gets the same 4 star rating as Lamar Jackson, the sickest athlete I’ve ever seen, or coached against, you know the whole “projection thing” is kind of a joke.