On Monday we ran an article that took a look at Virginia Tech's 2008 NFL
Draftees and how highly-rated they were coming out of high school. Today we'll
take it a step further and look at Tech's recruiting classes from 2001-05, and
see how many of them went on to have success at the college level, and later in
the NFL Draft.
The star rankings came from Rivals.com. We chose the years 2001-05 because
the Rivals numbers only go back to 2001, and it's too early to get an accurate
read on many of the players past the class of 2005. We also included James
Anderson and Brandon Frye as 2-star players. Even though Rivals rated them as
1-star players at the time, these days they would be automatically given 2-stars
just for having a Virginia Tech offer.