Class Autopsy

TCU 2023 — what happened to every signee.

TCU’s 2023 class brought in 21 signees. 0 reached the NFL.

Since you last looked (July 2026) — 3 more transferred out.
21
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.

Cordale Russell
No.101 national · WR
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2 transfersMiami (OH)
TCU — 2023: unscored
Colorado — 2024: unscored
Miami (OH) — 2025: unscored
Devean Deal
No.129 national · DL
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1 transferTCU
TCU — 2023: 86.0
TCU — 2024: 66.0, 2025: 76.0
Randon Fontenette
No.251 national · S
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1 transferVanderbilt
TCU — 2023: 5.0
Vanderbilt — 2024: 81.0, 2025: 53.0
Avion Carter
No.262 national · DL
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1 transferNorth Texas
TCU — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
North Texas — 2025: unscored
Cam Cook
No.347 national · RB
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1 transferJacksonville State
TCU — 2023: 28.0, 2024: 39.0
Jacksonville State — 2025: 90.0
Zachary Chapman
No.355 national · DL
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StayedNever transferred
TCU — 2023: unscored, 2024: 39.0, 2025: 35.0
Javeon Wilcox
No.434 national · S
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PortalDestination unresolved
TCU — 2023: unscored
Texas Tech — 2024: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Dominique Johnson
No.458 national · S
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StayedNever transferred
TCU — 2023: 36.0, 2024: 30.0, 2025: unscored
Jonathan Bax
No.478 national · EDGE
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PortalDestination unresolved
TCU — 2023: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Max Carroll
No.514 national · ATH
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StayedNever transferred
TCU — 2023: 0.0, 2024: 16.0, 2025: 26.0
Lafayette Kaiuway
No.600 national · TE
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StayedNever transferred
TCU — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: 22.0
Kylan Salter
No.674 national · LB
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1 transferColorado
TCU — 2023: unscored, 2024: 0.0
Colorado — 2025: 0.0
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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. 101 player in America.”

signed TCU → never drafted

Never registered a scored season 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.

B
Star power
19 recruiting points
D
Cohesion
48% never transferred
C
NFL production
0 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
A
On-field value
mean peak grade 45.8, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in TCU’s conference

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

drafted: 100%
2
drafted: 50%remaining: 50%
1
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
TCU
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
46%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
3
Transfers that landed at another program in TCU’s current conference.
Dropped a level
1
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
8
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.