With signing day (the new, much-less-meaningful form of it, anyway) just passed and the NFL Draft less than three months away, I found myself musing about the SEC, recruiting rankings and the draft.
And, after doing a bit of research, I’ve come back to a conclusion that I’ve arrived at before in this space: Rivals’ talent evaluators know what they’re doing.
Yeah, you get anomalies every now and then — former baseball player turned walk-on turned first-rounder Hayden Hurst here, top-flight prospect turned seventh-rounder Bo Scarborough there — but, when you look at the entirety of the data, there’s a pretty clear correlative line between Rivals ratings and eventual draft position for SEC teams.