I guess this was inevitable.
College football transfers are as prevalent as ever thanks to the transfer portal. Given that, it makes sense for us at 247Sports to attempt to measure the impact of the newcomers beyond the high school and junior college ranks.
This part of the evaluation actually makes some sense.
Transfers happen for a reason. Players transfer up for a better challenge, transfer down for more playing time, transfer out for a better environment, transfer in for personal reasons or any number of other scenarios. In some cases, we’re grading a young player with almost no experience. In others, we’re grading an experienced player that has had success but is on the decline or maxed out.
But the bottom line is that transfers do not succeed at the same rate as normal high school players. For the most part, your true elite impact players don’t transfer. They easily see playing time and succeed. They have no reason to transfer.
There’s one notable exception to that logic: quarterbacks.
You can look at the complete list here. (Be forewarned: there are a lot of names there.) As indicated, most of the players there have seen their rankings dip once in college.
Here’s one example who bucked that trend, though.
Here’s another, although the improvement is much smaller.
At least Kirby is taking kids who are trending in the right direction.
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UPDATE: By the way, the meltdown on the Gator board is glorious. Posters are threatening to drop their Sports247 subscriptions over it.