The Blue Board

What happened to Golden? I thought he was making a case for a top 100 overall prospect. Also im curious how someone breaks their foot for the second time and climbs 60 spots? In many cases you've dropped injury prone prospects.

Isaiah Golden is now in the top 100...in the 80's

On Kyle Hicks, the reason he was kept lower was because of his injuries late last season and in the spring. He is back healthy, and looks like he did prior to injury. With him being back, he has ascended.

Darius James, on the other hand, descended a little (as have many others over time) due to this season's ending second break of his foot.

So you guys are fairly comfortable right now that Kelvin Taylor is 3X the RB/Football player that Tyren Jones is and Altee & Keith Ford are 1.5X the RB/Football player than Tyren. So those guys are that much better as current RB/players and future prospects at the next level. Given that neither of them really project as anything other than RB's at the next level, I can drop the football player part of equation and summize that you are really saying they are 3X and 1.5X better RB's than Tyren Jones is or will be. Can't argue how Tyren rates compared to other position players, but as a RB (and again given that the three mentioned only project as RB's) to think that they are exponentially better currently and projected is curious to say the least. Or am I somehow misinterpreting when I see KT ranked 17 vs Tyren Jones 52 (and similarly for AT and KF in relation to Tyren).

Its called competition.. Texas HS athletes play better competition, as do conferences that are not the Pac.

I dont think that is what it means at all...I think it does mean there are 50 better players in 2013 than Tyren...including Carl Lawson

People can, and more importantly will, interpret the rankings however they wish.

Guys ranked in the top 50'ish are the elite prospects in the country out of thousands of D-I recruits/prospects. That's the way I have always looked at.

I'm still not understanding with the level of competition in Georgia 6A and teams putting 9-10 guys in the box to stop Tyren and he still runs for 300+ yards in the 1st 2 games of the season [including 332 against McEachern] against 2 preseason Top 10 teams in back to back games.......how guys that don't have 332 yards this season can be ranked higher? Especially when they play in states with much less competition.

Competition and on-field performance should have a higher proportion/factor in the rankings than camps and combines.

Do you guys have the basic structure/composition of the formula used to rank RBs (ie. below)? I'd love to see it.

M= Muscle Definition/Vascularity
D= Combine/Camp Performance
L= Level of Competition
P= Game Performance

4M+4D+1L+1P= Rating (Out of 100 points)

Player X
M=9.5
D=9
L=8
P=8.5

Score for Player X= 90.5

I'm simply miffed about these rankings.

These rankings are like saying a kid at the local junior college majoring in Recreation Management with a 3.3 gpa is smarter than the Biomedical Engineering/Molecular Biology Double Major at MIT with a 3.85 gpa. How can you do better against better competition and still be ranked lower? Contacting Duke University immediately....because clearly I'm not as intelligent as the Degree that my name is written on.........SHEESH.

that's great dude.

Yeah, you are misinterpreting it. You could have a point if a player were the No. 17 RB and another were the No. 52. The difference in that range of overall prospect rankings is minimal.

Our rankings are projections. USA Today does a great All-American team every year and so do we.

How can Thomas Tyner not go up in the rankings? Does he have to have a 1000 yard game and get 15tds before 247 realizes this kid's the truth? I understand he's playing Oregon high school football, but all you have to do is watch his highlights if his runs this year and you will see that he deserves his fifth star back and some respect. The kid is lights out!!! 688 yards and 10 tds in one game is not am easy feat. Just saying.

Someones not paying attention