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[QUOTE="Henny & Coke, post: 285940, member: 323"]
Not exactly.
 
5 and 4 star recruits may be similar, but, generally speaking, there is a pretty big gap between the 5/4 star recruits and the rest.
 
This article looks at the players selected in the first round of the NFL draft and goes back to see how these players were "rated" by r*vals website coming out of high school. As you can see, although 5 and 4 star recruits represent just 12.7% (1.3% were 5 star recruits, 11.4% were rated as 4 star recruits) of all college football players for the time period looked at, these players accounted for 59.8% of the players choosen in the first round of the NFL Draft from 2007-2011!
 
[url]http://r*vals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/star-power-how-recruiting-rankings-hold-up-at-the-top-of-the-nfl-draft?urn=ncaaf,wp1103[/url]
 
(you will have to replace the "*" with "i" in the link above, or just google "Matt Hinton Star Power: How recruiting rankings hold up at the top of the NFL Draft")
 
I'd say those are some definitive stats. Essentially, from 2003-2008 the recruiting website identified 208 high school football players that they ranked as "5 star players" and 1,807 that they ranked as "4 star players", out of a pool of about 15,877 total players. And for those players to make up almost 60% of all the players selected within the first round of the NFL Draft from 2007-2011 is simply staggering, IMO.
 
Edit:  Here is an article about the 2012 NFL Draft first round:
 
[url]http://www.athlonsports.com/nfl/nfl-draft-do-recruiting-rankings-matter[/url]
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