Class Autopsy

SMU 2023 — what happened to every signee.

SMU’s 2023 class brought in 17 signees. 0 reached the NFL.

17
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.

Alex Kilgore
No.634 national · LB
smuSMU
StayedNever transferred
SMU — 2023: 68.0, 2024: 46.0, 2025: 59.0
Daemian Wimberly
No.833 national · DL
smuSMUutsaUTSA
1 transferUTSA
SMU — 2023: unscored
UTSA — 2024: 0.0, 2025: 0.0
Jaxson Lavender
No.863 national · WR
smuSMU
StayedNever transferred
SMU — 2023: 20.0, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Adam Moore
No.1023 national · TE
smuSMU
StayedNever transferred
SMU — 2023: 26.0, 2024: 28.0, 2025: unscored
Jamarion Carroll
No.1055 national · WR
smuSMU
PortalDestination unresolved
SMU — 2023: 19.0, 2024: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Kevin Allen
No.1155 national · DL
smuSMU
StayedNever transferred
SMU — 2023: unscored, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 8.0
Tripp Riordan
No.1157 national · TE
smuSMU
StayedNever transferred
SMU — 2023: 22.0, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Alex Woods
No.1198 national · OT
smuSMU
StayedNever transferred
SMU — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Lonnie Johnson
No.1545 national · WR
smuSMU
StayedNever transferred
SMU — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Abdul Muhammad
No.1573 national · S
smuSMU
StayedNever transferred
SMU — 2023: 8.0, 2024: 14.0, 2025: 0.0
Keldric Luster
No.1579 national · QB
smuSMUtexas-stateTXST
1 transferTexas State
SMU — 2023: 35.0, 2024: 36.0
Texas State — 2025: 33.0
Randy Reece
No.1614 national · WR
smuSMU
PortalDestination unresolved
SMU — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
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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. 634 player in America.”

signed SMU → never drafted

Peak grade of 68 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
14 recruiting points
B
Cohesion
71% never transferred
A
NFL production
0 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
D
On-field value
mean peak grade 26.1, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in SMU’s conference

SMU’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
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
SMU
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
70%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
0
Transfers that landed at another program in SMU’s current conference.
Dropped a level
1
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
12
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.