Class Autopsy

New Mexico 2022 — what happened to every signee.

New Mexico’s 2022 class brought in 19 signees. 1 reached the NFL, 1 of them from a different school.

Since you last looked (July 2026) — 1 more transferred out.
19
signees, National Signing Day 2022
1
reached the NFL, 1 from elsewhere.

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.

Christian Ellis
No.1433 national · S
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2 transfersVirginia Tech
New Mexico — 2022: 0.0, 2023: 44.0
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Virginia Tech — 2025: 25.0
David Rowaiye
No.1774 national · DL
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PortalDestination unresolved
New Mexico — 2022: unscored, 2023: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
A.J. Haulcy
No.2079 national · S
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R3 · #78Indianapolis
New Mexico — 2022: 81.0, 2023: 66.0, 2024: 89.0
LSU — 2025: 84.0
Indianapolis · 2026 draft — No. 78 overall, round 3.
Marquis Jones
No.2145 national · LB
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StayedNever transferred
New Mexico — 2022: 0.0, 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
D.J. Washington
No.2150 national · RB
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StayedNever transferred
New Mexico — 2022: unscored, 2023: 39.0, 2024: 19.0, 2025: unscored
Kalen Woods
No.2309 national · ATH
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StayedNever transferred
New Mexico — 2022: 0.0, 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: 38.0
Donald Dixon
No.2309 national · IOL
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StayedNever transferred
New Mexico — 2022: unscored, 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Max Elkman
No.2348 national · DL
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PortalDestination unresolved
New Mexico — 2022: unscored, 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Landon Williams
No.2364 national · EDGE
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StayedNever transferred
New Mexico — 2022: unscored, 2023: 0.0, 2024: unscored, 2025: 0.0
Tristan White
No.2530 national · WR
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StayedNever transferred
New Mexico — 2022: 17.0, 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Jah'Mar Sanders
No.2535 national · WR
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1 transferLamar
New Mexico — 2022: 18.0
Lamar — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Zach Morris
No.2703 national · S
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1 transferUTSA
New Mexico — 2022: 12.0, 2023: 55.0
UTSA — 2024: 28.0, 2025: 3.0
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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.

Drafted — elsewhere

“The No. 2079 player in America.”

signed New Mexico → drafted from elsewhere

Drafted No. 78 overall, round 3 — by a program that never signed him.

Never made the league

“The No. 1433 player in America.”

signed New Mexico → never drafted

Peak grade of 44 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 86 other 2022 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.

F
Star power
13 recruiting points
B
Cohesion
63% never transferred
B
NFL production
1 drafted, vs. 2022 peers
F
On-field value
mean peak grade 30.3, vs. 2022 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2022 signing classes in New Mexico’s conference

New Mexico’s 1 draft picks against every other qualifying class its conference signed the same year.

New Mexico
drafted: 100%
1
drafted: 100%
1
remaining: 100%
0
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
63%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
0
Transfers that landed at another program in New Mexico’s current conference.
Dropped a level
1
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
11
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.