Reclassifications: A Long Term Analysis

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Raycine Guillory Jr has reclassified

2026 Post in thread 'Raycine Guillory, RB - Aledo HS (Aledo, TX) offered'

Nov 11, 2024

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Dominick Kelly has reclassified

2026 Post in thread 'Dominick Kelly CB from Tampa'

Nov 16, 2024

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Thread '2027 now 2026 TE Mark Bowman'

Jan 25, 2025

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[DTP]

These kids are trying to get paid ASAP. They don’t want to waste an extra year in high school if they don’t have to.

 

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2026 Post in thread 'Ethan "Boobie" Feaster 5* WR from Desoto, TX Reclassifies to 2026 and commits to USCw'

Feb 14, 2025

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Havon Finney Jr. has reclassified (was #5 recruit in the 2027 class)

2026 Post in thread 'CB Board (2026 Edition) Will We EVER Land an Elite CB class?'

Mar 1, 2025

https://247sports.com/player/havon-finney-46142251/

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Remains a 5* on Rivals after reclassifying

 

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A reclassification that hasn't worked out so far

Post in thread 'Davon Mitchell 5* TE from Los Alamitos, CA Hits the Portal after Reclassifiying'

Apr 6, 2025

@RVACane has freed up this thread now that he's in he portal! Four years of eligibility remaining.

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These kids are trying to get paid ASAP. They don’t want to waste an extra year in high school if they don’t have to.

There is also the unknown about the state of NIL money in a year or two. Lots of kids rushing to reclassify to cash in on the NIL while its unrestricted/unlimited.

 

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There is also the unknown about the state of NIL money in a year or two. Lots of kids rushing to reclassify to cash in on the NIL while its unrestricted/unlimited.

There is also the unknown about the state of NIL money in a year or two. Lots of kids rushing to reclassify to cash in on the NIL while it’s unrestricted/unlimited.

This is true. However, not everyone is ready to do so. I think about kids like Tony Grimes and Antoine Jackson, imo they should have stayed in their original classes. Not everyone is a Ryan Williams.

 

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Too Soon: Why Reclassifying Hurts Most Blue-Chip Football Prospects

Reclassifying offers blue-chip recruits early opportunities, but can disrupt development, delay impact, and lessen long-term NFL potential.

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Too Soon: Why Reclassifying Hurts Most Blue-Chip Football Prospects

Reclassifying offers blue-chip recruits early opportunities, but can disrupt development, delay impact, and lessen long-term NFL potential.

www.on3.com

I wonder if they separate out a true reclassification, someone like Blount who is 17 in college, as opposed to someone who takes like the Josh Jobe HS class route and "reclassifies" after taking 5th grade 2-3 times and is enrolling in college at 19.

 

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Too Soon: Why Reclassifying Hurts Most Blue-Chip Football Prospects

Reclassifying offers blue-chip recruits early opportunities, but can disrupt development, delay impact, and lessen long-term NFL potential.

www.on3.com

 

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Recruit	Position	Age	Rating before	Rating After	Class	Original Class	NLI	School	Portal entries	Portal School	Consensus
Malachi Toney	WR	17	4*	3*	25	26	Miami	Miami			Generational WR as a true FR, offensive true freshman of the year. Poster child for when to reclassify.

 

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[FuriousStyles]

This might not be the full list of “people Mario pursed til the end because he thought they were worth the trouble” but…

Malachi
Cam
Mark Fletcher
John Mateer

Every single one of these people have proven they were worth the effort. I remember there being some chatter regarding whether Mario should “move on”… “stop recruiting each of them” at a certain point but he wasn’t wrong about any of them.

When it comes to his ability to identify talent I trust his evals implicitly

 

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