TN Commit's Ranking Over Time, 2026 Class

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LouderVol said:
updated 5/13/25.

King moved up, Evans moved up, and Faizon moved up.
Osenda, Edwards, Sneed, and Outlaw dropped a litte
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Can’t wait for everyone to focus on the ones who dropped instead of the ones who moved up
 
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LouderVol said:
unfortunately Rivals is the only other one who even has him as a 4 star, but still 37th best OT. On3 and ESPN have him way lower 55th and 69th (nice) OT.
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So your position is that he "still sucks"?
 
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updated. Big changes are adding Groves, been tracking him for a while, and McClain.

Osenda continues his climb. most of our lower guys dropped.
 
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247's composite hasn't updated with the Rivals/On3 changes. in fact it doesn't look like the scores have changes at all, so I am just going to wait before posting the July update. I will work on getting all the new commits added with their June scores.
 
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LouderVol said:
247's composite hasn't updated with the Rivals/On3 changes. in fact it doesn't look like the scores have changes at all, so I am just going to wait before posting the July update. I will work on getting all the new commits added with their June scores.
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Thank you for doing all this. This is good stuff
 
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lots of tables added with little old information added. most of these new guys I wasn't tracking before they committed. there are some strange notes:

1. Luke Thompson's score doesn't match his ranking. the score is higher than the ranking would suggest, but this isn't the only time I have noted this happening, at the lower rankings the scores and rankings get weird. lots of duplicates rankings, scores that go all over the place, weird gaps etc.
2. Rouse has a really strange 3 week period. goes from lower 100s to lower 300s to top 50. this was early on when there was a lot more volatility and likely due to someone removing his ranking for some reason. IIRC he may have changed positions around that time, so that could be why.
3. I added an "NA" to the listings. This means that 247's composite didn't have a ranking when I started tracking the player.
4. I have no idea what is going to happen to the rankings whenever 247 composite finally updates with the Rivals/On3 merger. I am holding July's update until then, because 247 has not updated anyone's score. at least not in the top 200 players.
 
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we only have 7 players who have committed long enough to see more than 1 ranking update here post commitment. Faizon Brandon, Carson Sneed, Tyreek King, Brandon Outlaw, Tyran Evans, Gabriel Ossenda, CJ Edwards

of those 7 players 5 got better in both score & ranking. Carson Sneed, Tyreek King, Brandon Outlaw, Tyran Evans, Gabriel Ossenda
Gabriel has been our biggest mover. While Tyran Evans has seen the least.
Faizon Brandon's score went up, but ranking went down.
JC Edwards score stayed the same, but ranking went down.

to this point it seems like 247 doesn't drop kids for committing to UT, if anything a UT commit brings a bump.

once the season rolls around I should have enough data to properly say if 247 drops the new kids (late June early July commits) for committing to UT.
 
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LouderVol said:
we only have 7 players who have committed long enough to see more than 1 ranking update here post commitment. Faizon Brandon, Carson Sneed, Tyreek King, Brandon Outlaw, Tyran Evans, Gabriel Ossenda, CJ Edwards

of those 7 players 5 got better in both score & ranking. Carson Sneed, Tyreek King, Brandon Outlaw, Tyran Evans, Gabriel Ossenda
Gabriel has been our biggest mover. While Tyran Evans has seen the least.
Faizon Brandon's score went up, but ranking went down.
JC Edwards score stayed the same, but ranking went down.

to this point it seems like 247 doesn't drop kids for committing to UT, if anything a UT commit brings a bump.

once the season rolls around I should have enough data to properly say if 247 drops the new kids (late June early July commits) for committing to UT.
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Great info and thanks so much for compiling a daunting list! However, didn't Tyran Evans decommit? Do you continue to follow our decommits, or just a little oversight? Thanks!
 
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whm324 said:
Great info and thanks so much for compiling a daunting list! However, didn't Tyran Evans decommit? Do you continue to follow our decommits, or just a little oversight? Thanks!
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oh dang you are right. i missed that in my update. I will remove him from the list.

but yes, I do keep tracking the decommits too. I start tracking guys when they go on an official visit, or end up on one of the guest lists.
 
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updated today, I am assuming 247 took the Rivals/On3 merger into account. I didn't see any major negative shake ups on our players. but there were a couple others that I am tracking that moved down more than 100 spots.

so far the tally is:

8/20 of our committed players have moved up in the rankings since they committed to us.
3/20 have stayed the same.
9/20 of our committed players have dropped in the rankings since they committed to us.

so as of today the only logical conclusion is that 247 composite hates UT. let the debate!
 
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Added Moa and Wyatt. two groups of 2 of our players share the same ranking. I doubled checked, this is not a mistake.

Overall our scores improved by a bunch, but most of that was Edward Baker jumping way up. take out his score, and we actually dropped, but only a little.

Dropped Sneed off the list, for anyone who enjoys schadenfreude, he dropped in the rankings: was #272 is now #405
other traitors:
Tyran Evans was last #500 for us is now #375 for Miami
Brandon Anderson was #267 for us, is now #428 for Missouri
Tyson Bacon was #292 for us is now #753 for Miami
 
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LittleVol said:
So 70% have dropped and the season hasn’t started….
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this week compared to last week, yes.

overall its pretty even.

9 have risen, 4 have stayed more or less the same, 8 have dropped; since committing to us.
11 have risen, 2 have stayed the same, 8 have dropped, since I started tracking them.

data gets a bit screwy because there were a bunch of the July guys who I wasn't tracking before, so there aren't a lot of data points for them.

hopefully with the season starting soon we see guys start to get the credit they deserve.
 
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Updated 9/15/25. Glad I waited from last week, basically there was zero change last week, but they must have updated over the weekend because pretty much everyone moved.

I added in the flips of Harris, Keys, and Blair.

overall 10 guys rose in the rankings, 3 stayed the same, 10 dropped.

However we rose in the rankings far more than we dropped. we rose a cumulative 194 spots overall. that averages out to be about 8 spots per player better. pretty sure a number of guys added a fourth star, but I don't track that.

Even if you take out our two biggest risers we still gained spots. A lot of the drops (4 of the 10) are tied at what I think of as "place holder rankings" because there are a bunch of people with that ranking, so it doesn't bother me if they drop.

For the traitors: (all since they decommitted)
Sneed has dropped 135 spots
J.B. Shabazz dropped 3 spots
Tyran Evans has risen 28 spots (this is down from 125 spots better in previous rankings)
Brandon Anderson has dropped 167 spots
Tyson Bacon has dropped 604 spots!!!!

I didn't check this last bit, but from tracking the names I have my general feel is that most of Alabama commits I am tracking rose, and most of Miami's dropped.

There was some weirdness, like Rouse's score dropped, but his rankings rose, so it seems like some recruiting site had a big update/change.

If anyone sees anything I need to fix let me know.
 
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LouderVol said:
Updated 9/15/25. Glad I waited from last week, basically there was zero change last week, but they must have updated over the weekend because pretty much everyone moved.

I added in the flips of Harris, Keys, and Blair.

overall 10 guys rose in the rankings, 3 stayed the same, 10 dropped.

However we rose in the rankings far more than we dropped. we rose a cumulative 194 spots overall. that averages out to be about 8 spots per player better. pretty sure a number of guys added a fourth star, but I don't track that.

Even if you take out our two biggest risers we still gained spots. A lot of the drops (4 of the 10) are tied at what I think of as "place holder rankings" because there are a bunch of people with that ranking, so it doesn't bother me if they drop.

For the traitors: (all since they decommitted)
Sneed has dropped 135 spots
J.B. Shabazz dropped 3 spots
Tyran Evans has risen 28 spots (this is down from 125 spots better in previous rankings)
Brandon Anderson has dropped 167 spots
Tyson Bacon has dropped 604 spots!!!!

I didn't check this last bit, but from tracking the names I have my general feel is that most of Alabama commits I am tracking rose, and most of Miami's dropped.

There was some weirdness, like Rouse's score dropped, but his rankings rose, so it seems like some recruiting site had a big update/change.

If anyone sees anything I need to fix let me know.
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Heard on Animal sports talk, Tyreeq King was updated and rose in position. No ideas how or where to confirm.
 
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McDad said:
Maybe I misheard. Thought his stare of TN player ranking improved dramatically.

My fault
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@McDad I am not dismissing what you are saying, or saying you are wrong. His ranking may have updated. However, there are a number of ways he could have improved and 247's composite may not have picked it up yet.

-I am pretty sure 247's composite isn't a "live" updating thing, I think they have to push thru any updates. based on what I have seen they don't update every week, and it tends to be over the weekend, I guess after all the HS games are done. So he could have improved, but they just haven't updated. this would apply even if it was the 247 rankings that changed.
-as a composite there are multiple rankings that go into it, so if he dropped somewhere else, or the improvement isn't that much, he may not have moved up. in what I am tracking
-There are two things I am tracking, "grade" and "national overall rank". Positional rank (is he the 5th best WR or the 10th best) I don't track, nor do I track state ranking (he is the 3rd best TN player, vs the 8th). so if his ranking, beyond the national overall ranking changed, I wouldn't catch it.
-right now 247 itself has him as an "unranked", 89 "grade" three star, 55th best WR. that is laughably low compared to every other site. so they have a lot of room to improve his ranking but it may not change much just because of averages. the composite, which includes 247's laughably low ranking, has him as the 105th ranking 95 "grade" four star, 11th best WR.
-from looking at the numbers I will say there are times they don't make sense because I don't know exactly what they mean. using this update as an example Brayden Rouses "grade" went down, but his "national overall ranking" went up. The opposite has also happened. The composite also has what I call "place holder rankings/grades" where they just kinda lump a whole bunch of kids as the same. typically doesn't happen to 4 stars, but as I noted 247 has him as a 3 star. Those place holder rankings/grades REALLY don't make sense. sometimes its 10-20 players all with the same ranking and grade. sometimes there are multiple guys "ranked" the same even though they have different "grades", and sometimes the same "grade" turns into different rankings.
-the grades I show are rounded. 247 composite shows them as a 4 digit decimal. I just treat it like its a percentage, and only track the whole number. For instance Tyreek is a .9513 on 247's composite. I just say he is a 95. so if the third and fourth digits change, I don't track it. This could also be where he got better but it doesn't show up in my data. The next guy above Tyreek is .9522, the guy below is .9510, so there is some wiggle room for his averaged composite score to go up, but not impact his "ranking" or the "grade" that I show. for what its worth, down in the 3 stars the gaps are in that 4th decimal point, so a gap in the third decimal point is significant.
-there is also the ever so popular "247 hates UT"
 
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LouderVol said:
@McDad I am not dismissing what you are saying, or saying you are wrong. His ranking may have updated. However, there are a number of ways he could have improved and 247's composite may not have picked it up yet.

-I am pretty sure 247's composite isn't a "live" updating thing, I think they have to push thru any updates. based on what I have seen they don't update every week, and it tends to be over the weekend, I guess after all the HS games are done. So he could have improved, but they just haven't updated. this would apply even if it was the 247 rankings that changed.
-as a composite there are multiple rankings that go into it, so if he dropped somewhere else, or the improvement isn't that much, he may not have moved up. in what I am tracking
-There are two things I am tracking, "grade" and "national overall rank". Positional rank (is he the 5th best WR or the 10th best) I don't track, nor do I track state ranking (he is the 3rd best TN player, vs the 8th). so if his ranking, beyond the national overall ranking changed, I wouldn't catch it.
-right now 247 itself has him as an "unranked", 89 "grade" three star, 55th best WR. that is laughably low compared to every other site. so they have a lot of room to improve his ranking but it may not change much just because of averages. the composite, which includes 247's laughably low ranking, has him as the 105th ranking 95 "grade" four star, 11th best WR.
-from looking at the numbers I will say there are times they don't make sense because I don't know exactly what they mean. using this update as an example Brayden Rouses "grade" went down, but his "national overall ranking" went up. The opposite has also happened. The composite also has what I call "place holder rankings/grades" where they just kinda lump a whole bunch of kids as the same. typically doesn't happen to 4 stars, but as I noted 247 has him as a 3 star. Those place holder rankings/grades REALLY don't make sense. sometimes its 10-20 players all with the same ranking and grade. sometimes there are multiple guys "ranked" the same even though they have different "grades", and sometimes the same "grade" turns into different rankings.
-the grades I show are rounded. 247 composite shows them as a 4 digit decimal. I just treat it like its a percentage, and only track the whole number. For instance Tyreek is a .9513 on 247's composite. I just say he is a 95. so if the third and fourth digits change, I don't track it. This could also be where he got better but it doesn't show up in my data. The next guy above Tyreek is .9522, the guy below is .9510, so there is some wiggle room for his averaged composite score to go up, but not impact his "ranking" or the "grade" that I show. for what its worth, down in the 3 stars the gaps are in that 4th decimal point, so a gap in the third decimal point is significant.
-there is also the ever so popular "247 hates UT"
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Thanks for the details in your method. I wish the guy who subbed for Swain on Josh & Swain was on more frequently. He seems very connected to recruiting. His son is a player we've offered
 
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