Completing eligibility vs not

[thatdude2]

Why did you all fail at football? I’ll start first. I quit after my freshman year of high school football. Waste of God given talent. 

[Lam Dinh]

Mistakes Declaring for 2025

1. Cam Williams - If he comes back he is likely an All SEC 1st or 2nd team Right Tackle (playing along DJ Campbell for the second straight year). He is then a 1st or 2nd round pick in 2026 instead of a 6th round pick in 2025.

2. Quinn Ewers - In retrospect, Quinn would have been a Top 100 pick if he would have left last year in 2024. His deficiencies showed more clearly with a full year of football in the SEC with elite NFL like competition. If he transferred to another school in 2025 instead of declaring for the draft, he would have also made ~$5M in NIL, but it wouldn't have helped his draft stock as he likely would be drafted in a similar late round position in 2026. Remember, this 2025 Draft was a weak QB class and Quinn still only got drafted in the 7th round. The 2026 QB crop is much stronger so his draft position would not likely have improved.

3. Jayden Blue - He basically maximized his talent but his only mistake was declaring during a historically strong 2025 RB Class (Jeanty, Hampton, Judkins, on and on). If he stayed 1 more year and enters the 2026 draft (where the RB class overall is weaker), he likely gets drafted in the 2nd or 3rd round. Maybe not a huge change in the grand scheme of things because he gets to stay in the state of Texas and play for the Cowboys, but he was a victim of an extraordinarily strong 2025 RB draft class.

Edited 19 hours ago by Lam Dinh

[brianb722]

On 4/27/2025 at 2:50 AM, GDI said:

Quin never should have left HS early.  

He wasn't ready for college and tOSU wasn't ready for him.  He completely lost a year.  

I still have my doubts whether it is a good football decision for any player to skip a year of high school.