In the 2024 recruiting cycle, the 247 Composite rankings ranked 37 cornerbacks higher than Notre Dame freshman, Leonard Moore. Obviously, Moore’s Freshman All-American season made those rankings look silly — just as it made Moore’s offer list coming out of high school look silly.
At one point earlier this week I got involved in a discussion with the boys about scouting cornerbacks. It was my assessment (and theirs) that trying to scout and rank cornerbacks in high school is one of the hardest jobs in college football recruiting. There are so many variables that are involved besides the physical measurables and 40 times, such as:
- Did he really play corner in high school?