Sources tell 247Sports that Wisconsin quarterback Nick Evers, who started his collegiate career at Oklahoma, intends to re-enter the portal.
The Texas native was ranked by 247 as the 137th-best talent overall and the eighth-best quarterback in the 2022 recruiting class.Evers, one of the two transfer quarterbacks the Badgers signed last year in addition to starting Tanner Mordecai, was brought in as a possible long-term, future option at the position; however, this offseason, Wisconsin added former Miami starting quarterback Tyler Van Dyke as a transfer. Evers, who initially chose Oklahoma over Florida and other schools during his recruiting process, finished as the District MVP in 2021 while throwing for 2,367 yards, running for 648 yards, and totaling 33 touchdowns.
IVINS: “We mirror our Top247 after the NFL Draft. There are 32 first-round picks every year, which is why we have 32 five-stars. So, if we award a prospect a fifth star, we believe that they have one of the best chances out of anyone in the cycle to eventually blossom into a Day 1 pick. Obviously, we are not going to hit on every five-star – evaluating football players isn’t easy, just ask the decision makers in the NFL – but these are the prospects we feel the best about. We feel comfortable with the years of data that backs up a correlation between a five-star recruit, collegiate success and a high NFL draft floor. Plus, we have to have a way to grade ourselves. The NFL draft is a great final exam for a given class.
“Outside of the five-stars, you have what we call Day 2 and Day 3 projections. The second round of the NFL Draft is usually picks 33-64 with the third round going from pick 65 to pick 105. Any prospect that we slot in that range is viewed by us as a potential Day 2 selection. Again, we are not going to be right on everyone, but prospects in this neighborhood usually check off box after box for us. Anyone ranked from 106 to 247 is considered a Day 3 projection, which would be rounds three, four, five, six and seven of the NFL Draft. After that we have roughly 100 four-stars outside the Top247. These are essentially priority free agents and in most cases they are prospects that have a case to be inside the Top247. We have tried to get way more conservative with naming four-stars early on in the cycle because we want these prospect’s arrows to be pointing up as they embark on the next steps in their careers and we only have so many spots to use.
“When it comes to the three-stars, this is where a bulk of college football players will be ranked and it’s an area we have really tried to improve in recent years. If you go down our grading scale, you will see that a prospect with a grade of an 89 can be a really, really good college football player and potentially even an NFL Draft pick. The same goes for an 88 or an 87. We always get asked why isn’t this prospect a four-star? Well, if we made everyone a four-star, then the question would quickly become, why isn’t this prospect a five-star? At some point you have to draw a line in the sand and take your calculated shots, and I think we are as equipped as anyone when it comes to having a grasp on the class nationally. We are watching more kids than ever. And we are going to get it wrong. And the ones that we do miss on, we’re going to study them and figure out why we missed.”
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