The best time to evaluate a recruiting class is not when it’s signed, but rather four years after the fact. Today, we’ll go back and look at the SEC’s 2013 recruiting classes with the intention of regrading and reranking them. Here it goes:
1. Alabama
2013 grade: A
2017 grade: A
Top signees: RB Derrick Henry, LB Reuben Foster, DE Jonathan Allen, DE/LB Tim Williams, TE O.J. Howard.
The players the Crimson Tide hit on, they hit big. Henry won a Heisman Trophy, Allen got Heisman votes, Foster, Williams and Howard were All-Americans as were defensive back Eddie Jackson and defensive tackle A’Shawn Robinson, who were also members of the class.