Top 10 college football recruiting classes after National Signing Day
Florida State Seminoles
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As Marvin Wilson spurned LSU in favor of the Florida State Seminoles, the latter leap-frogged the former in the rankings and rightfully so. According to the composite rankings, the Seminoles landed three of the top 10 overall recruits in the country. Though the 2016 season wasn’t what they’d hoped and though they’re losing Dalvin Cook to the NFL draft, it’s hard to look at this class of incoming recruits and not think that they might be even better than they were a year ago:
Cam Akers was already signed well before Wednesday and the Seminoles may not miss Cook for Long. Though Akers will have to earn his spot, surely, the stout and explosive back has immense talent that should allow him to potentially take up the yoke in the FSU backfield. Akers and weak-side defensive end Joshua Kaindoh were already signed as five-stars before NSD, but the additions of two more five-star recruits in Wilson and Khalan Laborn makes them even more exceptionally dangerous moving forward.
It wasn’t just the five-star recruits that made National Signing Day such a big win for Florida State, though. D.J. Matthews, Hamsah Nasirildeen, Ja’len Parks, Zaquandre White and Leonard Warner are all four-star recruits ranking in the top 180 overall that will have a big hand in the future of the Seminoles. Jimbo Fisher has been phenomenal in getting guys of the highest caliber to Tallahassee and Wednesday was another example of that. FSU would’ve had the best National Signing Day of any program if not for the monster day that USC had.