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24/7 has a cool feature at the bottom of the team page - their all-time to 25 recruits...only going back to the year 2000 or so.  But it's interesting nonetheless.  

For Florida:
1. Ronald Powell LB/DE - a perfect .9999 recruit, he was a good player, but tore up his knee and was never special.  Drafted in 4th round, I believe.
2. Brock Berlin QB - couldn't beat out Rex Grossman, transferred to Miami.
3. Martez Ivey OT - wound up being good his last 2 years, but wasn't special.
4. Percy Harvin WR - finally, a guy who played up to his ranking.  All-American, 1st rounder
5. Vernon Hargreaves III CB - All-American, 1st rounder
6. D.J. Humphries OT - good/not great, probably having a better NFL career than college
7. Will Hill S - a very good player, but an idiot, I think he wound up getting kicked off the team.  Did start in the NFL for a time.
8. Dominique Easley DT - very good player and a 1st rounder, hurt a lot
9. Jelani Jenkins LB - good, solid college player, not special at all
10. Sharrif Floyd DT - same class as Easley, so the pair wreaked havoc, 1st rounder
11. Ciatrick Fason RB - had one great year at Florida, but that's it
12. Andre Caldwell WR - younger brother of another FL WR, was very good, but not special
13. Derrick Harvey DE - had one big year in the 08 NC season, 1st rounder
14. CeCe Jefferson DE - was very good, but not special...always found it odd that a 6'1" 270 DE was rated so highly in the first place
15. Gervon Dexter DT - playing some in this, his FR season - big but agile and long for 290 lbs
16. Derrell Lee DE - was supposed to replace Jevon Kearse/Alex Brown as sack-artist, but he was below average
17. Chris Leak QB - won a NC his SR season and holds all-time passing yardage record at UF
18. Gary Brown DT - he played sometimes but never did anything, total bust
19. Carlos Dunlap DE - great player, but in trouble a lot, long NFL career
20. Jarvis Moss DE - paired with Harvey to help coral Troy Smith & Co. for NC in 06.  1st rounder
21. Teez Tabor CB - good cover corner, All-SEC type.  Left school early, but went undrafted
22. Matt Elam S - short and thick for a safety, he was a great player - All-American and 1st rounder
23. Jonathan Bullard DE - good player, really improved in SR season
24. Tim Tebow QB - you know it all
25. Andre Dubose WR - stunk as a WR, but was an elite return man

It's a bit oxymoronic to list "all time since 2000", is it not?

It's a bit oxymoronic to list "all time since 2000", is it not?

Of course.

Ohio State:
1. Terrell Pryor QB - great player, interesting career with position change

I thought we didn't like the NFL thing!

(I have some stuff this afternoon, but I WILL get to Wisconsin's)

Am I getting him mixed up with someone else?  Didn't he change at OSU?  The 12-0 team that got no love?  Hmmph, I need to look it up.


Bah, I'm mixing him up with Braxton Miller.  Oops.

Pryor really wanted to not be in a spread. So he put, not quite Cam Newton, but maybe Tebow-ish ability into an offense that kinda limited it and forced him to make harder throws. He was a pretty good college QB, but 2-3 times a game, he'd make a play that was just another level (but in that kind of subtle way, where he turns a 2-yard scramble into 14 and looks like another species from the kid trying to tackle him). 

I don't think I could name a Top 25. As for some outstanding recruits, here are a few.

1. Alex Karras - Outland Trophy Winner, and Webster's TV Dad. The back story is that the Iowa coaching staff hid Alex Karras almost an entire summer at Lake Okoboji, Iowa at a time Indiana was attempting to recruit him and where his brother Ted Karras played (also a future NFL player), so Indiana could not find Alex Karras to recruit him. He helped lead Iowa to its first ever Rose Bowl following the 1956 season, was the 1957 Outland Trophy winner, and runner-up to the Heisman Trophy award. 

2. Chuck Long - One of the greatest college football QBs ever, was lightly recruited out of Wheaton, Illinois. In high school he was an option QB. In college he was one of the greatest passing QBs up to that time in NCAA football hx. He never really found a place in the NFL.

3. Bob Sanders - Two-Star recruit in 2000 who turned into a 3x all Big Ten Safety. 2007 NFL Player of the Year for the Colts.

I mention these 3 because two of them were lightly recruited, and all-time greats. Alex Karras was a known quantity in high school, and the back story of Iowa having sealed him away from other schools in Okoboji is a colorful story, and almost certainly would be against NCAA rules, today, and I am guessing yesterday, as well. I think Woody Hayes was looking for Alex Karras too, and didn't find him.

Pryor really wanted to not be in a spread. So he put, not quite Cam Newton, but maybe Tebow-ish ability into an offense that kinda limited it and forced him to make harder throws. He was a pretty good college QB, but 2-3 times a game, he'd make a play that was just another level (but in that kind of subtle way, where he turns a 2-yard scramble into 14 and looks like another species from the kid trying to tackle him).

Pryor was more talented than Cam or Tebow overall. He didn’t have quite the arm strength of Cam, but he wasn’t any less accurate. Both those guys were better pure throwers of the football than Tebow. Pryor was a legit sub 4.4 guy at 6’5, 230 pounds. He was magic with the ball in his hands. Cam ran 4.57 while Tebow wasn’t anywhere near as fast as either.

Pryor wanted to play in a pro style, which is why he went to OSU over Michigan. It was actually very close battle. The kid was born to play in an offense like RichRod or Urban’s and he went to go play in a pro style. Go figure. In the right system he’d have shattered records. He could’ve been a 3,500 to 4,000 yard passer and 1,000 to 1,200 yard rusher with 50 combined TD’s in the right system. His legs were so underutilized under Tressel but that’s what he wanted- he wanted to be a Manning or Brady when he just didn’t have that skill set or talent.