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Here's an interesting article that list the star ratings for the starters in this years super bowl.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-footbal ... ng-ratings

Only 1 percent of players are 5 stars anyway so you are going to have more players with less stars on those teams. Plus the 5 star players usually are drafted by bad teams anyway. The real measure in college is the star rating on college national championship teams.

Rebel10 wrote:Only 1 percent of players are 5 stars anyway so you are going to have more players with less stars on those teams. Plus the 5 star players usually are drafted by bad teams anyway. The real measure in college is the star rating on college national championship teams.

This. The small sample size for 5 star players means statistics comparing them versus the other ratings are not significant.

That was actually really interesting.

Per NFL.com, from 2002 to 2010 there were 262 recruits given five-star status. Of those 262, 116 were drafted (44.3 percent), 38 percent of whom were drafted first-founders, including #1 picks Matthew Stafford and Cam Newton.

Not all the five-star recruits had a shot at being drafted. Two were in prison, and another faces a March trial for assault. A handful had to give up football because of injuries. A few never played a down of major-college football because of academic issues. One decided on a pro baseball career, and another chose pro track. And there are two former five-star guys whose whereabouts are unknown.

As the 5 star rankings are given to less than 30 kids per year vs. the thousands that actually play FB, this is a phenomenal success rate in gauging talent.

exactly. As much as I don't love the way recruiting services rate players, The number of 2 stars out there is so much higher than the number of 3, 4, and 5, that percentage wise, a much, much higher percentage of 5, 4 and 3 star players make the pros than the percentage of 2 star players that make the pros.

On the other hand, it shows 2 and 3 star players CAN excel, and quite well.

Arkpony wrote:On the other hand, it shows 2 and 3 star players CAN excel, and quite well.

Yeah 2 and 3 star players who went to P5 schools.

So it's fine for us to go after 2 and 3 star players, but let's make sure some of the other big boys are after them too.