There were high hopes for the 2017 USC football recruiting class with hats on the table for six highly-touted prospects on Signing Day.
When those six each picked the Trojans in turn, it was clear that USC had landed a special class, one which would go on to finish in the Top 5 nationally.
Here’s a run down of superlatives for the 2017 class:
Biggest Surprise – Marlon Tuipulotu
Last year it was the cloak-and-dagger steal of running back Vavae Malepeai from Oregon during the final days of the recruiting period.
This year, USC’s biggest surprise grab came just a bit earlier, as the Trojans pulled off the shock flip of longtime Washington commit Marlon Tuipulotu a week before Signing Day.