You have to be careful with recruiting ratings because they are very subjective based on the recruiting service and a ton of other things. Many of these ranking services do not visually see many of these kids they are ranking. Evaluating kids is a 1000% better than it used to be because of camps but it can still be a hearsay, hype, and hidden agenda business at times. College coaches are always the best evaluators of potential college talent. If college football programs want to offer you a scholly than it doesn’t matter what a recruiting services thinks. Here’s an example, a high school kid with all the measurable is rated a 2* talent by all the services because they have not really seen the kid but a couple of the rival services have rated him so they have to rate him to appear to be up on everything new. Nick Saban comes in, sees the 2* kid and offers him a scholly. As soon as the recruiting services see this the kid is offered by Bama than they will automatically bump the player up to a high 4* because of the interest by Bama. It happens all the time. The other side of this is a 5* recruit decides to stay home and play at NC State or UNC and not go to one of the big boys out of state, his star rating may drop. When you hit that college campus it doesn’t matter what stars you were ranked coming out of high school, you better be ready to bring it.
