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The other thing to consider is how many 3-stars a team has.

While I'm not sure about your numbers, the fact is UGA only had 34 3-stars from 2016-2019 according to the 247 composite. Of those 34 players, 12 were drafted out of UGA and 3 more are still on UGA's roster this season.

I see this used as a point about UGA developing guys, but that kind of assumes rankings are perfect, or at least close, right? Which I feel as a board we have even recently established that they definitely aren't.

It would make more sense that they were just underrated to begin with, not that UGA took an actual 3 star caliber player and made him into a 4 or 5 star.

I'm not gonna go through that whole list you posted, but I know where Ladd is from and nobody is scouting guys in Murray County

I'm picking on Ladd here because I have a lot of connections in that area, I actually like him a lot.

Also being around a bunch of studs can mask some deficiencies. Was 2022 Ladd really that good, or is the defense focused on AD Mitchell, the run game, and Bowers? I'm not saying anything either way, but its a decent question.

I'm firmly in the camp that college programs don't really develop guys that often or that much. Just the difference from working with a high school weightlifting coach to any D1 weightlifting coach can be massive for some guys and would have happened anywhere. Most of the Bama guys that went on to immediately have an impact in the NFL either had an impact immediately at Bama, or they at least flashed when given chances because they were behind locked in starters.