Maker... 247 essentially tries to predict where a player will be going into the draft as their recruiting ranking.

So player 1 in recruiting based on that should be the number 1 player selected "4" years later in the draft. Player 200 is expected to be selected 200 in the draft. Cares nothing about college potential essentially not sure why they rate like that but it's kind of the standard for now. I would much rather rate a player based on how they fit the college game but I understand that a 4 start could be a 5 star in the right situation and a 5 star a 3 star in the wrong system. Kind of like a 6' 4" 250lb linebacker could be rated a 5 star but probably isn't as impactful on a team that runs a 4-2-5 defense.

Only thing I'll add is there are more 5 and 4 star players rated each year for all of them to be drafted. 4 star players are reaching up to around the top 275ish -300ish ranked players. That's why I look at position ranking for the player not the rating. I've broken it down to anything above a .9200 should be an SEC at some point, .9600 and above possibly All-SEC, .9200 - .8800 could be a starter but would be consider depth players unless they have a unique skillset that wasn't seen on high school film. Like being a very good blocking WR, or a great tackling corner back, possibly a DL that is a lot stronger then they appeared. So player position ranking makes a lot more sense then saying we have 6 4star WRs blah blah. Well 5 of the 6 may be rated lower then 40th at their position.

This post was edited on 8/2/21 at 9:23 pm