Few prospects ever escape this category of the Top 25 Under 25. They go through their college or junior career without fixing the critical flaws in their game that made them long shots from the start. They appear in a few editions of this article until their rights expire and they leave the organization.
But there are always exceptions.
A couple of players followed exceptional development paths, like Jake Evans, and proved our original evaluations completely wrong. We also learned more about a few others, which allowed us to slide them up the next year.