The second and final National Signing Day of the 2019 recruiting cycle is upon us, and while most of the nation’s top talent has already decided where they will attend school next fall, a few final holdouts elected to weigh their options beyond the late-December early signing period before sending in their national letters of intent.
Much of the drama has been taken out of what used to be a defacto national holiday in the college football world. Last season, two-thirds of all FBS signees put pen to paper in the early signing period; this year, over three-quarters of the pool of expected FBS recruits signed in the early period, according to numbers from the 247Sports database.