Final 2017 ESPN Recruiting Rankings
http://www.espn.com/college-sports/football/recruiting/playerrankings/_…
Ruiz jumped all the way up to #28
DPJ is at #22
Luiji is at #69
Kai-Leon Herbert is #99
McCaffrey is #117
Jordan Anthony is #124
Possible prospects:
Solomon is #63
Tufele is #119
Nico is #150
Oliver Martin is not on the list..they have him as the #60 WR
Overall they rank 24 of the 26 current commits as 4 stars, which gives tem the #4 overall class as of today.
January 18th, 2017 at 5:40 PM ^
Wow. Oliver Martin is higher overall to 247 than he is as a receiver to ESPN. Id question whether ESPN has even scouted him
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January 18th, 2017 at 5:42 PM ^
group that hosted The Opening where he had his coming out party. Not sure why there is such a discrepancy.
January 18th, 2017 at 5:47 PM ^
doesn't mean they were directly involved. That's all Nike, with ESPN trying to make a buck on the recruiting junkies,
January 18th, 2017 at 7:06 PM ^
ESPN still has a pretty heavy scouting presence there. Luginbill and Haubert are there watching everything the same as the other scouting services.
January 18th, 2017 at 6:01 PM ^
Here I copy and pasted his entire scouting report from ESPN, verbatum:
Is white lol
January 18th, 2017 at 6:20 PM ^
That's racist... but very funny
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January 18th, 2017 at 6:52 PM ^
I laughed
January 18th, 2017 at 5:42 PM ^
ESPN is great at basketball recruiting. The worst at football
January 18th, 2017 at 5:43 PM ^
Our boy TomVH is slackin.
January 18th, 2017 at 6:21 PM ^
I guess it's hard to focus on recruiting and Vanna White at the same time
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January 18th, 2017 at 10:02 PM ^
and spinning the wheel to "Bankrupt" ever since first allowing Vanna to turn his letters.
January 18th, 2017 at 5:45 PM ^
never updated BSJ's rating - stayed at a 75 the entire time
although, other than BSJ and Kurt Taylor they have every other recruit as a 4-star for Michigan
January 18th, 2017 at 5:47 PM ^
I think it's ridiculous that espn is even a part of the composite rankings.
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January 18th, 2017 at 5:49 PM ^
ESPN football recruiting is complete trash.
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January 18th, 2017 at 5:51 PM ^
ESPN sucks at CFB.
January 18th, 2017 at 8:53 PM ^
ESPN sucks at nearly everything.
They are a relic of monolithic media, and will either adapt (which history shows nearly all don't) or will slowly regress to whatever monolithic media is good at (hoarding intellectual property and/or signing multi-million dollar contracts).
Case in point, MGoBlog, more hours spent here per day than spent on an entire week on ESPN.com (or even month maybe).
That is the new future.
January 18th, 2017 at 5:52 PM ^
Herbert's ranking has one of the weirdest variances I've ever seen. Scout and Rivals have him around a 250 guy, while ESPN has him in their top 100 while 247 has him way down in the 750s.
January 18th, 2017 at 5:54 PM ^
Bobby Herbert?
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January 18th, 2017 at 6:21 PM ^
You mean Bobby Hebert?
January 18th, 2017 at 6:23 PM ^
Cajun Cannon
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January 18th, 2017 at 6:29 PM ^
Didn't he play for the Michigan Prancers?
January 18th, 2017 at 7:19 PM ^
It's a fun name to say. Try saying it.
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January 18th, 2017 at 11:35 PM ^
I saw Kai Leon Herbert outside Schembechler during his official visit in October. He's got a fair amount of baby fat on him and thin legs. Would likely need a redshirt just to put some real muscle on and get in great playing shape. Definitely not a Filiaga type player at this point. We may be dodging a bullet if he flips to Fla.
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January 19th, 2017 at 8:37 AM ^
Thin legs are fine if you're playing tackle. You need to be quick. You don't necessarily want to anchor down and stop 6'1", 330 lb. nose tackles.
January 20th, 2017 at 1:12 AM ^
I guess I'll buy that argument for a buck, but I don't think Taylor Lewan had chicken legs.
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January 18th, 2017 at 6:34 PM ^
Tufele and Solomon although unlikely would be epic
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January 18th, 2017 at 7:57 PM ^
Is stupid like baseball writers.
January 18th, 2017 at 8:30 PM ^
The thing about ESPN is that it's stupid but you can't escape it.
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January 18th, 2017 at 9:16 PM ^
Si
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January 18th, 2017 at 10:55 PM ^
Trey Smith is #1 on this list yet is not in the top 45 on rivals. That has to be one of the largest discrepancies I've ever seen for a "top player" on any of these list.
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January 18th, 2017 at 11:16 PM ^
Last one I can think of that was similar was Derrick Green. ESPN had him at 38 and 247 had him at 83. Both Rivals and Scout had him at 8th overall.
Splits are similar on this one. 247 and ESPN have him top 5, Scout and Rivals have him at 29 and 49.
January 19th, 2017 at 12:09 AM ^
That is odd. I could see a guy in the middle of the mix having big discrepancies but not someone that one service is so adamant about that they rank him their #1
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January 19th, 2017 at 10:07 AM ^
He's 2 in ESPN but in the 40's for Scout and 24/7. This is the first year I can remember really comparing recruiting sites - I just assumed they would all be decently consistent across the board (maybe having kids in roughly 10-15 spots). But to me that's a really big deviation. But from the examples you guys were giving, it's not too uncommon...