2017 National Signing Day: Biggest Winners and Losers

The 2017 edition of National Signing Day has come and gone and recruiting staffs across the country have turned their attention to the 2018 class. Saturday Blitz takes a look at the winners and losers of the 2017 Signing Day class.

National Signing Day, like all athletic events, presents us with winners and losers. Most classes come into the day to sign recruits that have been publicly committed to that team, as well as sign other recruits that are announcing that day.

Some teams come out of nowhere to sign great classes, others silently go about the day, and some teams consistently sign top classes such as Alabama or Ohio State. Other teams lose recruits at the last minute, a far more relevant issue than perhaps most would think.

The teams on this list appeal to all of these situations. While it is hard to say how a class will truly pan out (actually it’s impossible) we can go off of rankings to discern who are the winners and losers of Signing Day. Most teams would say they win Signing Day.

It is hard to “lose” in this type of event, but it happens, as will be explained when we get to the losers on this list. As stated, we never really know how a class will pan out until we see who makes it school, who goes to JUCO and which players pan out at their institution and which don’t. Without further ado, we’ll dive into our list with one of the surprising classes of the day.