2025 Football Recruiting
247 uses the composite for marketing purposes. It was a smart move. They became the official metric because of it, while others only published their own ranking. You can use their ranking tool to sort to your liking. Whether Hero sports is sophisticated enough to understand this (they’re not) is not 247’s problem. And again, the ranking services are projecting guys based on an NFL evaluation at the individual level. These are not constructive methods to predict success at the FCS level let alone evaluate a recruiting class, which really should be measured relative to roster construction and scheme.