Class Autopsy

Virginia Tech 2023 — what happened to every signee.

Virginia Tech’s 2023 class brought in 29 signees. 0 reached the NFL.

Since you last looked (July 2026) — 2 more transferred out.
29
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.

Layth Ghannam
No.396 national · IOL
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StayedNever transferred
Virginia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Chance Fitzgerald
No.442 national · WR
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1 transferVanderbilt
Virginia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored
Vanderbilt — 2025: unscored
Ayden Greene
No.559 national · WR
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StayedNever transferred
Virginia Tech — 2023: 21.0, 2024: 34.0, 2025: 48.0
Aycen Stevens
No.634 national · LB
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StayedNever transferred
Virginia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 18.0
Antonio Cotman Jr.
No.664 national · CB
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1 transferCharlotte
Virginia Tech — 2023: unscored
Charlotte — 2024: 0.0, 2025: unscored
Jason Abbey
No.750 national · EDGE
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StayedNever transferred
Virginia Tech — 2023: 0.0, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 46.0
William Watson III
No.810 national · QB
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StayedNever transferred
Virginia Tech — 2023: 37.0, 2024: 24.0, 2025: 23.0
Gabe Williams
No.863 national · WR
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StayedNever transferred
Virginia Tech — 2023: unscored, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 0.0
Dante Lovett
No.882 national · S
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StayedNever transferred
Virginia Tech — 2023: 11.0, 2024: 42.0, 2025: 3.0
Tralon Mitchell
No.903 national · ATH
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PortalDestination unresolved
Virginia Tech — 2023: 29.0
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Caleb Woodson
No.922 national · S
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StayedNever transferred
Virginia Tech — 2023: 12.0, 2024: 71.0, 2025: 36.0
Marcell Baylor
No.946 national · WR
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StayedNever transferred
Virginia Tech — 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. 396 player in America.”

signed Virginia Tech → 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.

A
Star power
22 recruiting points
C
Cohesion
59% never transferred
C
NFL production
0 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
C
On-field value
mean peak grade 31.5, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in Virginia Tech’s conference

Virginia Tech’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
Virginia Tech
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
65%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
0
Transfers that landed at another program in Virginia Tech’s current conference.
Dropped a level
2
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
16
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.