Impact freshmen are everywhere now in college football. Thanks to the rise of 7-of-7 and summer camps, high school football is now a 365-day-per-year sport and incoming freshmen are more prepared than ever to immediately take that next step at the college level.
With national signing day 2016 in the books, there are a wealth of new signees ready to help their teams out in year one. But which first-year player is not only prepared to crack the two-deep, but help their team win a national championship?
That question alone cuts down the crowd to a handful of legitimate candidates.