Daily Blog • Wednesday, February 1st

National signing day is today as the top rated high school players all over the country sign with their favorite school. It is one of the most important days of the year for each college team as usually the teams with the best recruiting classes year in and year out usually find themselves in the Top 25.

Covering college football as I do takes 52 weeks a year as it is and while I personally do not scout the high school games and rate each player I do compile my rankings based on the many different recruiting services across the country that follow and scout HS football year round. I not only like to use all of the biggest and best services, but I also use regional reports as well. The colleges themselves use many of these services to get the latest information on recruits.

One very important part of my College Football Preview Magazine is an individual player’s “PS#”. You will see them on almost every page and I find them vital in my analysis of a team.  A simple definition for a PS# is my ranking of the players at their positions coming out of high school.

When I receive a recruiting magazine, I translate each player’s ranking into a point system from 1-100.  Each and every player is then logged into the computer and give them a point total from each source. This is a very time-consuming process. Many players are listed by just one or two sources. The higher ranked recruits are mentioned by almost every source. The more they are mentioned and the higher they are rated in each publication, the more total points they accrue. After months of entering all of this information, I sort the list by each position and by total points. Naturally, the QB with the most total points then becomes PS#1QB for that year. If a player is PS#99QB, that means he ranks 99th in total points of all QB’s coming out of high school that year.

While my final recruiting rankings for this year will not be completed for another week, I thought it would be interesting to take a look back on how some of my top players did from the class of 2011 at the QB spot.

Last year 15 True Frosh QB’s started at least one game for a total of 93 starts. 5 of them were in my Top 30 ranked QB’s coming out of HS including Teddy Bridgewater and Braxton Miller who both had Top 10 PS#’s and also both finished on my postseason All-Frosh team.

Here are my top 30 QB’s from last year (all VHT) and how they did statistically last year as a true frosh. I also included all the QB’s and their stats who started a game.

2011 Top 30 True Frosh QB's and How They Fared

PS#
Name Team Gms Plyd Starts Comp Att % YDS TD INT Rush Yds YPC TD
1
Jeff Driskel Florida 5 0 16 34 47.1 148 0 2 18 1.1 0
2
Braxton Miller Ohio St 12 10 85 157 54.1 1159 13 4 715 4.5 7
3
Kiehl Frazier Auburn 13 0 5 12 41.7 34 0 2 327 4.3 3
4
Christian Lemay Georgia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5
Brett Hundley UCLA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6
Bubba Starling Nebraska 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7
Teddy Bridgewater Louisville 13 10 191 296 64.5 2129 14 12 66 0.7 4
8
Max Wittek USC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9
Cody Kessler USC 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10
JW Walsh Oklahoma St 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11
Jamal Turner (WR) Nebraska 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -3 -1.5 0
12
Jacoby Brissett Florida 8 2 18 39 46.2 206 2 4 7 0.5 2
13
Marquise Williams N Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14
Jerrard Randall LSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15
Justin Worley Tennessee 4 3 48 87 55.2 604 1 3 -22 -3.1 0
16
David Ash Texas 13 6 98 173 56.6 1068 4 8 103 1.4 1
17
Kyle Boehm California 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18
Kevin Hogan Stanford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
19
Michael Brewer Texas Tech 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
20
Everett Golson Notre Dame 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
21
Phillip Ely Alabama 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
22
Brandon Allen Arkansas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
23
Tanner McEvoy S Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
24
Kendal Thompson Oklahoma 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
25
Evan Crower Stanford 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
26
Johnny Manziel Texas A&M 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
27
Gary Nova Rutgers 10 5 116 227 51.1 1553 11 9 -114 -5 0
28
Brock Berglund Kansas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
29
Corbin Berkstresser Missouri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
30
Michael Eubank Arizona St 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
49
Max Shortell Minnesota 8 2 26 54 48.1 309 2 2 14 1.3 0
57
Brett Smith Wyoming 13 13 253 415 61 2622 20 11 710 5.1 10
59
Tre Roberson Indiana 9 5 81 142 57 937 3 6 103 3.9 2
96
Nick Isham La Tech 10 7 155 257 60.3 1457 8 7 -19 -0.4 2
97
Rakeem Cato Marshall 13 9 182 304 59.9 2059 15 11 32 0.6 0
111
Taylor Reed Memphis 11 9 169 295 57.3 1690 10 4 77 1.1 2
123
Chuckie Keeton Utah St 11 8 106 174 60.9 1200 11 2 293 4.3 4
144
Maxwell Smith Kentucky 8 3 84 153 54.9 819 4 4 -109 -5.4 0
205
Andrew McNutly North Texas 4 1 28 51 54.9 352 1 3 57 2.5 1

 

Leaders

PS# Name School Yds
57
Brett Smith Wyoming 2622
7
Teddy Bridgewater Louisville 2129
97
Rakeem Cato Marshall 2059
%
7
Teddy Bridgewater Louisville 64.5
57
Brett Smith Wyoming 61
123
Chuckie Keeton Utah St 60.9
TD's
57
Brett Smith Wyoming 20
97
Rakeem Cato Marshall 15
7
Teddy Bridgewater Louisville 14
Rush Yds
2
Braxton Miller Ohio St 715
57
Brett Smith Wyoming 710
3
Kiehl Frazier Auburn 327