Welcome to the day after national signing day. The 2012 class is in the books for Mississippi State, and immediate analysis tells me this is a pretty solid class. The recruiting sites agree. Of course, y'all know how Dan Mullen feels about ranking recruiting classes.

"I know that someone showed me one of the recruiting rankings and how you can be all over the place," he said. "I think everybody knows my feelings on that and we will evaluate this recruiting class three years from now and see where we are."

Let's hit some links here first:

• The main signing day story

• A notebook that includes Nick Schuessler and Richie Brown

If you read the entire Mullen transcript I posted on here yesterday, congratulations. You are a hardy soul and/or dedicated fan. If you didn't, well, I don't blame you.

Either way, I'm going to break out a few of Mullen's comments about specific players, because he talked about several of them. A lot of these guys could see the field as freshmen. So here we go.

• Safety Will Redmond: "He has the physicality to play safety, the athletic ability to play cornerback and the skill set to move over to the offensive side of the ball. He’s then a guy I know their coach trusts to lead their team, and their coach wants to put the ball in his hands with the game on the line even though he’s a defensive player."

• Offensive lineman Cole Carter: "He has big shoes to live up to I guess. The last guy to come from Caledonia over here had pretty successful career, Derek Sherrod. Cole is a guy that played a lot of tight end and plays basketball a lot in high school. You can see in his physique that as soon as he grows and fills out his body that we expect him to play offensive line for us."

• Quarterback Nick Schuessler: "Named the Georgia offensive player of the year and physically reminds me of a guy I coached a long time ago in Alex Smith, who was a guy that didn’t put up huge stats but led his team to state championships. Then filled out his body, and I see a lot of characteristics in Nick."

• Punter Devon Bell: "He's a guy with just phenomenal leg strength that we've been excited about getting here for over two-and-a-half years now, since we first had him at camp. We were excited to get him. I think he just has special leg strength. Even as a specialist, he's going to have the opportunity to play right away."

• Running back Deonte Evans: "There are still guys like Deonte Evans, he could go any number of positions, whether it be defensive back, running back – he catches the ball extremely well."

• Tight end Artimas Samuel: "He was a guy we really liked all along, and for us I liked those kind of crossover players that are tough to defend, and he certainly is that. Is he a little bit smaller tight end, a big wide receiver? What is he? He's a mismatch guy."

• Safety Quadry Antoine: "We have to make sure he doesn't get a lot of fines or penalties or suspensions. If you've watched his highlight film, the first six plays you'd be wowed with the hit and then you'd see the flags come a-flying. I love contact. I love how he plays with the reckless abandon he plays the game with."

• Defensive lineman A.J. Jefferson: "The thing that really impressed me with A.J. was how guys spoke of him and not just coaches with his team. He went down to the Mississippi-Alabama All-Star game and guys that were already committed to us spoke highly of his work ethic and the effort that he gave every single day at practice."