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Evaluating college football recruits is about playing the long game. The process can start when a prospect is just 14 or 15-years-old, but the development and forthcoming evaluation periods as a prospect grows is what it's all about. Ranking prospects, too, is a fluid, very subjective process, and oftentimes there is very little difference between the fifth-ranked player in a class and the 17th-ranked player in a class.
We rank the top 300 prospects in each recruiting cycle, but in evaluating 2,800 prospects in a class, the further down the list you go, the more similar prospects become and the more difficult it is to separate and rank them.