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College Football: 5 Recruiting Trends in 2019

By Justin Dottavio

PALO ALTO, CA - SEPTEMBER 23: Head coach David Shaw of the Stanford Cardinal looks on while his team warms up prior to playing the UCLA Bruins in a NCAA football game at Stanford Stadium on September 23, 2017 in Palo Alto, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)
PALO ALTO, CA - SEPTEMBER 23: Head coach David Shaw of the Stanford Cardinal looks on while his team warms up prior to playing the UCLA Bruins in a NCAA football game at Stanford Stadium on September 23, 2017 in Palo Alto, California. (Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images) /
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With the 2018 recruiting class behind us, here are 5 recruiting trends heading into the 2019 recruiting cycle in college football.

College football recruiting is a year-round sport of its own and recruiting gurus like Bud Elliot of SB Nation and Brandon Huffman of 247 Sports live the business 365 days per year. They attend the Under Armor and Army All-American games, Elite 11 competitions, and 7-on-7 underwear Olympics.

With the 2018 National Signing Day for college football behind us, the page is immediately flipped to 2019 and what this crop of seventeen and eighteen year old high school kids will decide is already prime conversation.

The 2018 recruiting experience saw the Georgia Bulldogs pull away on top with seven five-star prospects, with Clemson the only team close with five five-star prospects. The ‘Dawgs class was both deep and star-studded capped off with quarterback Justin Fields. Fields’ joins his sister in the Bulldog athletic department, she’s a softball player, and he’s an in-state prospect looking to unseat incumbent rising-sophomore Jake Fromm.

Fromm might have led the Bulldogs to the College Football Playoff National Championship game but he’s far from locked down the job as we saw with Jalen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa of the Alabama Crimson Tide. If UGA Coach Kirby Smart is, well, smart, he’ll give Fields reps all season and there will be a clear competition for the top spot in as the Bulldogs quarterback.

Here are five recruiting trends to look for in 2019. How do they compare to the 2018 recruiting class?

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