Fall Rankings Review: 2023 Small Forwards

<!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"small"} --> <p class="has-small-font-size"><em>The featured image is of [player_tooltip player_id='59744' first='Julia' last='Economou'] (2023) of Penn High School.</em></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Last Friday, September 30th, we released the Fall rankings update for the Class of 2023. There were a handful of new additions, a few players who raised their "stock", so to speak, so subsequently there was some movement throughout the list. I wanted to take this time to circle back and address all of the ranked prospects, position by position. Below is a look at 60 small forward prospects who make up 26.7% of the rankings this time around, with analysis on a handful to "keep an eye on" detailed at the bottom.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:table --> <figure class="wp-block-table"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong><font size="+1">Rk.</font></strong></td><td><font size="+1"><strong>Name</strong></font></td><td><font size="+1"><strong>Pos.</strong></font></td><td><font size="+1"><strong>Ht.</strong></font></td><td><font size="+1"><strong>High School</strong></font></td></tr><tr><td>1.</td><td>[player_tooltip player_id='59762' first='McKenna' last='Layden']</td><td>6-2</td><td>SF</td><td>Northwestern</td></tr><tr><td>2.</td><td>[player_tooltip player_id='96087' first='Riley' last='Makalusky']</td><td>6-2</td><td>SF</td><td>Hamilton Southeastern</td></tr><tr><td>3.</td><td>[player_tooltip player_id='96091' first='Renna' last='Schwieterman']</td><td>6-0</td><td>SF</td><td>Jay County</td></tr><tr><td>4.</td><td>[player_tooltip 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