Sometimes recruiting — not dissimilar to Chuba Hubbard’s rushing prowess — is difficult to properly contextualize. We talk about how guys were ranked a certain number in a certain class or their rating was .992828343 or whatever, and it all gets a little bit confusing as to what any of this actually means.
I think the best way to properly contextualize a player’s ranking coming out of high school is to put him in with other players who were rated similarly. So when we talk about Cade Cunningham, instead of saying he’s the No. 2 guy on the 247 composite rankings with a rating of .