Class Autopsy

Louisville 2023 — what happened to every signee.

Louisville’s 2023 class brought in 19 signees. 0 reached the NFL.

Since you last looked (July 2026) — 3 more transferred out.
19
signees, National Signing Day 2023
0
reached the NFL.

The journey stack

One row per signee, ranked by signing-day national rank. Each chit is a stop; the line between them is a transfer. Open a row for the season-by-season record.

T.J. Capers
No.127 national · EDGE
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StayedNever transferred
Louisville — 2023: unscored, 2024: 13.0, 2025: 42.0
Adonijah Green
No.195 national · EDGE
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StayedNever transferred
Louisville — 2023: 0.0, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 62.0
Aaron Williams
No.201 national · CB
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1 transferUCLA
Louisville — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
UCLA — 2025: unscored
Madden Sanker
No.255 national · IOL
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1 transferFlorida Atlantic
Louisville — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
Florida Atlantic — 2025: unscored
Fred Johnson
No.339 national · ATH
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StayedNever transferred
Louisville — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Pierce Clarkson
No.349 national · QB
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1 transferUCLA
Louisville — 2023: 35.0, 2024: 34.0
UCLA — 2025: unscored
Stanquan Clark
No.378 national · LB
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StayedNever transferred
Louisville — 2023: 7.0, 2024: 64.0, 2025: 11.0
Luke Burgess
No.502 national · OT
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1 transferApp State
Louisville — 2023: unscored
App State — 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
William Spencer
No.507 national · DL
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StayedNever transferred
Louisville — 2023: unscored, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 13.0
Trent Carter
No.514 national · DL
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StayedNever transferred
Louisville — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: 0.0
William Fowles
No.532 national · WR
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1 transferApp State
Louisville — 2023: 19.0
App State — 2024: 18.0, 2025: 21.0
Jahlil McClain
No.600 national · WR
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1 transferFresno State
Louisville — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
Fresno State — 2025: 26.0
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The receipts

No recruiting service wrote a word here. The national rank was the promise; what happened next is the whole story.

Never made the league

“The No. 127 player in America.”

signed Louisville → never drafted

Peak grade of 42 on our 0–100 scale.

The report card

Star power and cohesion are graded against all 297 qualifying classes, 2021–2023. NFL production and on-field value are graded against just the 107 other 2023 classes — a 2023 signee simply hasn’t had as many draft-eligible years as a 2021 signee, so those two dimensions compare like-for-like instead of penalizing recency. Overall GPA still ranks across all 297.

D
Star power
15 recruiting points
F
Cohesion
42% never transferred
C
NFL production
0 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
B
On-field value
mean peak grade 35.3, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in Louisville’s conference

Louisville’s 0 draft picks against every other qualifying class its conference signed the same year.

drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 67%remaining: 33%
2
drafted: 33%remaining: 67%
1
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
Louisville
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
Source CFB Index · player_recruiting_profiles + player_nfl_draft

The fine print

Other ways to read the same class.

Star-weighted retention
45%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
1
Transfers that landed at another program in Louisville’s current conference.
Dropped a level
0
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
3
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.