I have made one of these about D3 players before, but now that his career is over I have a nomination for best D2 player ever:

Introducing William Watson.

He’s #75 on the big board.

Fun fact: I recruited him with a D prestige.

Let’s see your best D2 guys!

Cool idea. This is not my player, but I had to coach against him. My buddy crooted him as a d2 487 during the last year of HD 2.0 and he snowballed into this monster.

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerHistory/Ratings.aspx?&pid=3292388

He just got drafted #47 by the Jazz!

Someone snagged a5 star recruit at a D2 Hawaii school awhile ago. I can’t remember the details other than he out recruited UCLA.

It was texrangers I believe.

Yup, pretty sure it was Tark. Maybe 12 seasons ago?

Rupp season 40. Had a D2 player named James Williamson go in the first round at #18 to the Celtics.

Here's another D2 guy that got drafted:

What's so crazy about this guy you ask? He was an EARLY ENTRY!!! I battled Notchflaw for him and he was understandably VERY upset when he left after his Junior season. Don't know that I've seen that before or since.....

I think way back in the early days of HD, when stats were the most important thing to getting drafted, there may have even been a D3 player picked once. Unfortunately I'm not able to look at all the old draft results but if anyone has time to kill it would have been in the first 10-15 seasons or so of whichever world it was (I believe).

I know that coaches like to tout their players as potentially being the best ever but since WiS didn't keep records of all the players ratings until somewhat recently, it's really very difficult to accurately do.

Pre-potential and post-potential players are entirely different animals as well. Not even remotely comparable. No offense meant to the OP, guys a stud for sure, just pointing out some problems with "all-time best" comparisons.

These guys might not be all-time greats, but they're definitely among the best I've pulled at D2 thus far:

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerHistory/Ratings.aspx?&pid=3665814

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerHistory/Ratings.aspx?&pid=4212453

Back in the day, I'm pretty sure you had to win national player of the year to get drafted at the division II level. I agree, it sucks we can't go back and look at ratings. I had a guy drafted at the DII level while at Bryant (Phelan) and he was a monster. I also had a conference mate who coached at Dowling (Smith) who had an early entry player drafted at the DII level