Buffalo 2021 — what happened to every signee.
Buffalo’s 2021 class brought in 18 signees. 1 reached the NFL, 1 of them from a different school.
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.
Quillen HowzePortalDestination unresolved
1 transferFlorida A&M
Floyd DozierStayedNever transferred
StayedNever transferred
PortalDestination unresolved
PortalDestination unresolved
StayedNever transferred
PortalDestination unresolved
Carson WilliamsStayedNever transferred
Brian PlummerStayedNever transferred
Jaillen HowzePortalDestination unresolved
Nolan Gorczyca1 transferKansas
The receipts
No recruiting service wrote a word here. The national rank was the promise; what happened next is the whole story.
“The No. 2494 player in America.”
Drafted No. 122 overall, round 4 — by a program that never signed him.
“The No. 1073 player in America.”
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 101 other 2021 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.
The class the draft ignored
NFL production, 2021 signing classes in Buffalo’s conference
Buffalo’s 1 draft picks against every other qualifying class its conference signed the same year.
The fine print
Other ways to read the same class.