Here are the best players still on the board entering Day 2.

1. The five biggest headlines so far

• Georgia’s now overtaken Ohio State for the No. 1 class
• Clemson’s signed four of the country’s top nine recruits
• Clemson stole Ohio’s No. 1 recruit from Ohio State
• The day’s two biggest flips: QB Emory Jones from Ohio State to Florida and DB Jaiden Woodbey from Ohio State to FSU. (This all makes it sound like Ohio State had a horrific day! The Buckeyes are fine and surely finishing with a top-five class.)
• Texas might be assembling the best class of defensive backs ever

2. The status of the 247Sports Composite’s top 100 2018 recruits

We’ll be updating this section as signatures roll in, with expected announcement dates in parentheses — though once the ESP ends, players won’t be able to actually sign until February 7 — and signees in bold.

1. QB Trevor Lawrence, Clemson signee
2. QB Justin Fields, Georgia signee
3. DE Xavier Thomas, Clemson signee
4. DE Micah Parsons, Penn State signee
5. CB Patrick Surtain Jr., favored to LSU, per 247Sports Crystal Ball, but don’t be so sure (February)
6. RB Zamir White, Georgia signee
7. DE Eyabi Anoma, Alabama signee
8. DE K.J. Henry, Clemson signee
9. OT Jackson Carman, Clemson signee
10. OG Jamaree Salyer, Georgia signee
11. WR Terrace Marshall, predicted to LSU (Friday, 3:30 p.m. ET)
12. WR Amon-Ra St. Brown, predicted to USC (February)
13. DT Taron Vincent, Ohio State signee
14. LB Palaie Gaoteote, USC signee
15. WR Justin Shorter, Penn State signee
16. OT Cade Mays, Georgia signee
17. OT Nicholas Petit-Frere, with Notre Dame and SEC schools in the mix (After ESP)
18. LB Adam Anderson, Georgia signee
19. S BJ Foster, Texas signee
20. RB Lorenzo Lingard, Miami signee
21. WR Devon Williams, predicted to Oregon (After ESP)
22. DE Brenton Cox, Georgia signee
23. RB Jaelen Gill, Ohio State signee
24. RB Ricky Slade, Penn State signee
25. CB Isaac Taylor-Stuart, predicted to USC (February 7)
26. CB Tyson Campbell, favored to Miami (February)
27. S Jaiden Woodbey, Florida State signee
28. OT Brey Walker, Oklahoma signee
29. TE Jeremy Ruckert, Ohio State signee
30. CB Olaijah Griffin, UCLA commit (February)
31. RB James Cook (Dalvin’s little brother), Georgia signee
32. QB Tanner McKee, favored to Stanford (February 7)
33. CB Anthony Cook, Texas signee
34. QB Justin Rogers, TCU commit (Friday at 4 p.m. ET)
35. S Caden Sterns, Texas signee
36. S Kelvin Joseph, favored to LSU (February)
37. QB Dorian Thompson-Robinson, UCLA commit (After ESP)
38. OG Trey Hill, Georgia signee
39. LB Teradja Mitchell, Ohio State signee
40. QB Emory Jones, Florida signee
41. S Tyreke Johnson, Ohio State signee
42. WR Derion Kendrick, Clemson signee
43. LB JJ Peterson, favored to Tennessee or Alabama (February 7)
44. OG Penei Sewell, favored to Oregon (February)
45. OT William Barnes, favored to Florida (February 7)
46. CB Jalen Green, Texas signee
47. CB Brendan Radley-Hiles, favored to Oklahoma (January 6)
48. WR Brennan Eagles, Texas signee
49. TE Luke Ford, favored to Georgia (January or later)
50. WR Jaylen Waddle, favored to Alabama or Texas A&M (February)
51. WR Marquis Spiker, Washington signee
52. CB Anthony Lytton, Florida State commit (February 7)
53. WR Jacob Copeland, favored to Alabama or Florida
54. DT Michael Thompson, favored to Missouri (February)
55. OL Matthew Jones, Ohio State signee
56. CB Asante Samuel Jr., Florida State commit
57. CB Al Blades Jr., Miami signee
58. WR Justyn Ross, favored to Clemson over Alabama and Auburn (February 7)
59. DE Tyreke Smith, favored to Ohio State (January 4)
60. QB Matt Corral, Ole Miss signee
61. WR Mark Pope, Miami signee
62. TE Brevin Jordan, Miami signee
63. CB Houston Griffith, Notre Dame signee
64. LB Quay Walker, Alabama commit (After ESP)
65. WR Kamryn Babb, Ohio State signee
66. QB Phil Jurkovec, Notre Dame signee
67. LB Payton Wilson, NC State signee
68. S DeMarvion Overshown, Texas signee
69. S Derrik Allen, Notre Dame signee
70. DE Stephon Wynn, Alabama signee
71. CB Kyler McMichael, Clemson signee
72. WR Jalen Hall, favored to Oregon or USC
73. WR Kevin Austin, Notre Dame signee
74. WR JaMarr Chase, favored to TCU or LSU (February)
75. WR Jordyn Adams, North Carolina signee
76. S Josh Proctor, Ohio State signee
77. QB Colson Yankoff, Washington signee
78. S Leon O’Neal Jr., favored to Texas A&M despite being a recent A&M decommit
79. ATH Bryan Addison, UCLA signee
80. OT Rasheed Walker, favored to Penn State (After ESP)
81. QB Jacob Sirmon, Washington signee
82. RB Brian Snead, Ohio State signee
83. RB T.J. Pledger, Oklahoma signee
84. DT Tyler Friday, favored to Michigan (February 7)
85. WR Joshua Moore, favored to Texas A&M
86. OT Richard Gouraige, Florida commit (After ESP)
87. ATH Talanoa Hufanga, favored to USC or Oregon (After ESP)
88. LB Solomon Tuliaupupu, favored to USC (January or later)
89. DE Jordan Davis, Alabama signee
90. Al’vonte Woodard, Texas signee
91. LB Channing Tindall, Georgia signee
92. LB Otis Reese, Michigan commit (After ESP)
93. WR Jalen Preston, Texas A&M commit (February)
94. DT Robert Cooper, Florida State signee
95. CB Josh Jobe, Alabama signee
96. DE Ronnie Perkins, Oklahoma signee
97. OT Nana Asiedu, Penn State signee
98. WR Matthew Hill, Auburn commit (January)
99. DT Tuli Letuligasenoa, USC commit
100. C Emil Ekiyor, Alabama signee

3. The updated top 10 classes

(If that’s not loading for you, the full rankings are here.)

4. Does all this even matter all that much?

Oh, absolutely. At this point, there’s little doubt that recruiting rankings are worthwhile at the big-picture level, despite those (wonderful!) success stories that always spring to mind about two-stars overcoming the odds and getting drafted in the first round.

1. They matter at the player level. Blue chips are almost 1,000 percent more likely to be drafted in the first round. You can see the star ratings drop throughout the NFL draft. And five-stars are about 33 times as likely to be All-Americans as two-stars are.
2. They matter at the team level. Matt Hinton broke the country into five tiers of recruiting might, finding the higher-recruiting schools to consistently beat their lessers virtually across the board.
3. They matter at the championship level. Every national champion of the ratings era has passed a specific recruiting benchmark, as Bud Elliott’s Blue-Chip Ratio annually demonstrates.
4. There are major exceptions, duh, like CMU’s Eric Fisher, who went from being a 240-pound two-star to a 306-pound No. 1 pick — hard to expect national rankings to predict a player to gain 66 quality pounds in college. Bill Connelly, who's way smarter than me, still finds them highly valuable, despite obvious flaws.
5. Perfection shouldn't be the standard, though. Especially since the four big services get better during the course of a year and more accurate from year to year. Just Rate The Bama Croots Highly has been a winning strategy, for one.
6. At the anecdotal level, let's take a look at how all of college football would've changed if one recruit, five-star Tim Tebow, had chosen differently. See how much one commit mattered?

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