Class Autopsy

Utah 2023 — what happened to every signee.

Utah’s 2023 class brought in 20 signees. 2 reached the NFL.

20
signees, National Signing Day 2023
2
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.

Spencer Fano
No.95 national · OT
utahUTAH
R1 · #9Cleveland
Utah — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Cleveland · 2026 draft — No. 9 overall, round 1.
Caleb Lomu
No.119 national · OT
utahUTAH
R1 · #28New England
Utah — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
New England · 2026 draft — No. 28 overall, round 1.
C.J. Blocker
No.237 national · CB
utahUTAH
StayedNever transferred
Utah — 2023: unscored, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 39.0
Mikey Matthews
No.272 national · WR
utahUTAHcaliforniaCALuclaUCLA
2 transfersUCLA
Utah — 2023: 34.0
California — 2024: 35.0
UCLA — 2025: 38.0
John Randle Jr.
No.331 national · RB
utahUTAH
PortalDestination unresolved
Utah — 2023: 29.0, 2024: unscored
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Smith Snowden
No.356 national · CB
utahUTAH
StayedNever transferred
Utah — 2023: 3.0, 2024: 74.0, 2025: 78.0
Dijon Stanley
No.430 national · ATH
utahUTAHnew-mexico-stateNMSU
1 transferNew Mexico State
Utah — 2023: 28.0, 2024: 37.0
New Mexico State — 2025: 32.0
Cameron Mitchell
No.466 national · RB
utahUTAH
StayedNever transferred
Utah — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Owen Chambliss
No.514 national · LB
utahUTAHsan-diego-stateSDSU
1 transferSan Diego State
Utah — 2023: 0.0
San Diego State — 2024: 20.0, 2025: 85.0
Roger Alderman
No.558 national · OT
utahUTAH
StayedNever transferred
Utah — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Brock Fonoimoana
No.587 national · S
utahUTAH
StayedNever transferred
Utah — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: 0.0
C.J. Jacobsen
No.674 national · TE
utahUTAH
StayedNever transferred
Utah — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
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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. 237 player in America.”

signed Utah → never drafted

Peak grade of 39 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
18 recruiting points
A
Cohesion
75% never transferred
A
NFL production
2 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
B
On-field value
mean peak grade 40.2, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in Utah’s conference

Utah’s 2 draft picks against every other qualifying class its conference signed the same year.

Utah
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
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
73%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
0
Transfers that landed at another program in Utah’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.