A final deep review of the 2012 Husker recruiting class

[Red Five]

Another (long winded) write-up from Sam - http://www.omaha.com/huskers/football/recruiting/recruiting-a-final-deep-review-of-the-husker-recruiting-class/article_0dce3da4-2c5a-11e7-9cd4-1ba4be2232e8.html

Jared Afalava

LeRoy Alexander

Zaire Anderson

Tommy Armstrong

Thomas Brown

Sam Cotton

Imani Cross

Aaron Curry

Greg McMullen

Alonzo Moore

Avery Moss

Michael Rose-Ivey

Mo Seisay

Paul Thurston

Vincent Valentine

Jordan Westercamp

Corey Whitaker

Scout: 49th nationally (6th Big Ten)

247 Sports Composite: 30th (4th)
ESPN: Not rated in Top 25
Rivals: 25th (3rd)
Notable Walk-ons: Andy Janovich, Ryker Fyfe, Sam Foltz, Brandon Reilly, Dylan Utter, Spencer Lindsay, Trey Foster

Best players from the class: Vincent Valentine, Tommy Armstrong, Brandon Reilly, Sam Foltz and Jordan Westerkamp
Top position group from the class: Wide receiver (Westerkamp, Reilly and Moore). This is a change from the defensive line. None of those guys exhausted their eligibility at NU. All of the receivers stuck around.
Bottom position group from the class: Cornerback (Seisay)
Junior college recruits: 2 (Z. Anderson and Seisay)
High school recruits by state: Texas 2 (Armstrong, Curry), California 2 (Whitaker, Brown), Illinois 2 (Valentine, Westerkamp), Ohio 2 (McMullen, Alexander), Colorado 1 (Thurston), Georgia 1 (Cross), Louisiana 1 (Moore), Missouri 1 (Rose-Ivey), Nebraska 1 (Sam Cotton), Utah 1 (Afalava)
Players who never arrived: 0
Players who transferred before eligibility was expired: 2 (Curry, Thurston)
Players who left/were dropped from program before their eligibility was exhausted: 6 (Afalava, Alexander, Brown, McMullen, Moss, Valentine)
Players who started more than 10 games thus far: 11 (Armstrong, Cotton, Foltz*, Janovich, Moore, McMullen, Reilly, Rose-Ivey, Utter, Valentine, Westerkamp)
Guys who played as true freshmen: 4 (Janovich, Cross, Curry, Moss^)

 

[StPaulHusker]

8 out of 17 transferred or dropped. You can't have that and be successful. Unless you are reloading with better behind it.

But we all know that 2013 wasn't the case.

or 2014

 

[ADS]

Here is Sam's review of the 2013 class. OL and WR hurt Nebraska here. DL had a lot of talent but still some misses.

http://www.omaha.com/huskers/football/recruiting/recruiting-another-deep-review-of-the-husker-recruiting-class/article_19bd5ec4-2297-11e6-92e0-1b1538af15fc.html

 

[ATLHusker]

8 out of 17 transferred or dropped. You can't have that and be successful. Unless you are reloading with better behind it.

But we all know that 2013 wasn't the case.

or 2014

7 out of 17. valentine left early for the nfl.