Now that National Signing Day has come and gone, college football fans are looking at the newcomers to figure out which new signees will see the field immediately.

Some freshmen will have big impacts, others will contribute and then there will be a group that doesn't see the field at all and redshirts in their first season.

Sports Illustrated took a look at the freshmen who redshirted from the 2016 class and picked eight of them to watch in the 2017 season.

Sports Illustrated tabs eight redshirt freshmen to watch in 2017 GALLERY

Let's take a look at their picks and what they said about each player.