There are always some mistaken ratings, his was one of them. Even one of the service's evaluators said so in an article that I think was in the local paper. In that regard, he has outperformed.
When he showed up at UT and started eating Senior O-lineman's lunches on some days / some plays it became clear the evaluation services missed on him, and that he ought to be something special. The disappointment has been that pattern of eating O-line lunch one play and getting nuked on another has not changed since the first day he was at UT.
Usually a freshman who does that will slowly increase the number of plays they kill it on, while drastically lowering the number of plays they suck on. Hughes has done that a bit, but not to the extent is normally seen from guys that go on to be dominate every down players at this point in his career.
