ummmm........
Extremely normal.
I agree the recruiting value placed on a player is only really fun in the offseason when there's nothing else to talk about. There are always plenty of articles about five stars that didn't pan out and three stars who outperformed their high school rating. Here's one breaking down Seattle's Super Bowl winning roster, with a link to the Broncos as well.
As for how the team rankings work, I've never bothered to look into it. I'd assume the formulas are on the various recruiting web sites. I don't know how true this is, but I always think of the recruiting services as followers. The coaching staffs are the ones that decide how valuable a recruit is, then the services base their ratings on who is being recruited by whom. But that's just my perception. I know that everybody is watching film and following all the ancillary offseason stuff that the high school kids do now.
Basically, I know recruiting rankings are all bunk, but I'd rather have a lot of highly recruited guys than not, and whether it's chicken or egg, the teams that consistently finish highly in recruiting do tend to perform better than those that don't
Also, the combine list is out. Three hundred and thirty five guys and only one long snapper. The Texans should jump on him early with that first pick before he slips away :yes:
Of those 335, 85 are underclassmen, meaning 13 of the 98 who declared early haven't even been invited to the combine yet . . .
As for how the team rankings work, I've never bothered to look into it. I'd assume the formulas are on the various recruiting web sites. I don't know how true this is, but I always think of the recruiting services as followers. The coaching staffs are the ones that decide how valuable a recruit is, then the services base their ratings on who is being recruited by whom. But that's just my perception. I know that everybody is watching film and following all the ancillary offseason stuff that the high school kids do now.
Basically, I know recruiting rankings are all bunk, but I'd rather have a lot of highly recruited guys than not, and whether it's chicken or egg, the teams that consistently finish highly in recruiting do tend to perform better than those that don't
Also, the combine list is out. Three hundred and thirty five guys and only one long snapper. The Texans should jump on him early with that first pick before he slips away :yes:
Of those 335, 85 are underclassmen, meaning 13 of the 98 who declared early haven't even been invited to the combine yet . . .
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