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Message: [QUOTE="timkay99, post: 3507711, member: 635"] Seen a higher degree of conversation than normal centering around how the class is ranked by the services and can it really be ranked like that? Can the recruiting services be trusted with all the questions that surround them? Figured would dive in to a position by position look at the currently committed recruits in the ACC (not Notre Dame) and see what I thought of them! I have no evaluation background as it relates to football. Spent 10 years in baseball, including the last couple years evaluating high school talent on the side from a real-world job. Graduated from MLB Scout School and have worked with MLB teams for 3 years, USA Baseball for 2 years, coached a NAIA power for 2 years as a recruiting coordinator and then ran the state of Tennessee for a 3rd party scouting service for a year and have been assisting since I left. So, I am used to putting evaluations in the public realm. From my experience, overall rankings mean nothing and I hated doing them as an evaluator. I really tried to nail down my positional rankings and overall grades (stayed private) on each player when preparing to go public and then cobble together overall rankings from there. So, I put more value on positional rankings and where the player aligns in their state. With that said, it is an open board and I am not a fluent football evaluator, so individual evaluations will be limited to a sentence or two on Syracuse prospects especially, as I am not trying to anger or upset anyone and merely try to provide a baseline with which to understand where the class stands. With HS baseball postponed in Tennessee, I have had that itch to evaluate that I wasn’t able to satisfy this year. All the disclaimers out of the way, dive into QB’s. Will use 247 as a guide for both video and rankings. If no video there, will do a search and list where the video was found. With evaluating off of highlight videos, definitely more of an upside look as opposed to a risk look. Would look for improvements from Jr year film to Sr year film (for those who end up playing). What I look for in QB’s: High Schools: What league do they play in? Try to get a read of the competition level. Body and Mechanics Projection: Body type projectable? Mechanics are clean enough to yield easy growth? Identify the Profile: Dual Threat, Pocket Passer Identify the Attributes for Each Profile: Dual Threat (Elusiveness/footwork, Top-end speed, physicality, arm strength/throws in profile), Pocket Passer (Arm strength/throws in profile, mechanics/accuracy, footwork, ability to buy time in pocket with eyes downfield) My struggles as an evaluator: - QB footwork on these highlight films. They all start to look the same after awhile. - So much of a QB evaluation are things highlight film will never show. Tools may be the least important piece of a QB's overall package, as they rely so much on ability to read defenses, mental aptitude, ability to adjust in game and working through progressions. I relate evaluating QB's to evaluating high school hitters. Yea, from talking to you I think you can hit, your mechanics suggest you can hit, but I don't know for sure until I see you face low 90's and above average spin day in and day out (as well as being able to handle failure for the first time, do you shut it down or fight?) [/QUOTE]

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