Interesting article about how recruiting translates to the NFL

[FQDawg]

Couple of Bulldogs mentioned.

https://theathletic.com/4105045/2023/01/19/college-football-recruiting-star-system-disparity-nfl/

If you don't have a subscription, you might be able to read the article by clicking on Reader View in your browser's URL field.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

Reader View in your browser's URL field.

How does one do this or find it?

 

[FQDawg]

In Safari (which I use), there's an icon in the URL bar that looks like a sheet of paper. Once the page loads, click it before you start scrolling and it should come up in a way that lets you read the whole article.

Here's a screen shot of what it looks like:


Here's an article about how to do it on Chrome.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

https://theathletic.com/4105045/2023/01/19/college-football-recruiting-star-system-disparity-nfl/

These paragraphs from that opening bit:

By then, Missouri also entered the picture and scheduled him for an official visit the last weekend of January. The prospect and his family visited Missouri and then drove 600 miles to Tuscaloosa. Trouble was, Alabama was tight on scholarship space, and the lone open spot was being saved for a prized defensive lineman, Jeffrey Simmons.

Alabama was direct: “Hang with us. Mizzou is going to wait on you. We probably won’t know until about 11 o’clock.” On National Signing Day, Simmons opted to go to Mississippi State.

Alabama had one spot left, and it went to that surprise prospect, running back Josh Jacobs.