One month of the 2016 college football season is in the books, long enough to start weighing in on which players and teams are making the biggest impact. It's along a large enough sample size to assess the play of the game's newest crop of contributors, the freshman class.
Quite a bit of time is spent during the offseason raving about how good certain high-valued recruits might be right out of the gate, and the same goes for players that redshirted their first season. Now that we've had a month's worth of competition to evaluate them, we have a much clearer picture on just which freshmen are truly standing out.