2017- Both Toenail Carter and Young were committed before Drayton was hired. The staff chose to take Carter over Eno Benjamin, but this had nothing to do with Drayton. Incomplete grade.
2018- Landed the consensus top running back in the state, Ingram, who was a natural Texas lean. A&M and LSU were after him hard. Things got difficult behind the scenes once Jimbo was hired and attempted to pull out all the stops. Chip Brown's article didn't help here. Drayton closed on a recruitment that appeared to be over for most of the cycle but got hairy at the end, but this was mostly a recruitment that a replacement level RB coach at a school like Texas should close. I believe the play was to only take one RB in the class. Still no complaints, has mostly done his job as a recruiter at this point.
2019- Noah Cain and Deondrick Glass, known prospects since their freshmen years, are identified as targets early, although the staff never falls in love with Glass enough to recruit him like they want him. Cain transfers to IMG and rooms with 5* Trey Sanders, who eventually visits and silently commits; the staff knows he's likely full of shit, but continues to recruit him just in case. Eventual OU commits Marcus Major and Rhamondre Stevenson eventually become targets as well; Stevenson as a potential RB1, Major as an RB2 type. Georgia RB Derrian Brown is taken as a fine RB2 option; Drayton had some help here from other coaches. Late riser DJ Williams seems to be an option, but Texas never went all in on him; perhaps he had his hand out, given the teams recruiting him? The sum of the interest from Cain and Sanders, to a lesser extent guys like Stevenson and Glass, and Jordan Whittington turning into a potential running back option late in his senior season once he returned from injury leads to the staff never seriously pursuing adequate RB takes like Darwin Barlow, Daimarique Foster, and King Doerue; the three are arguably RB2 types who might be RB1.5s if you squint hard enough, but depth is a potential concern. I think down the stretch Texas knows they aren't landing Sanders, and puts their eggs in the Cain train. After they miss on Cain, they pass on pursuing Glass and the other RB1.5-RB2 types while thinking that Whittington and Brown are enough, with an eye towards a historically loaded 2021 RB class, both locally and nationally. Whiffing on Noah Cain here while not finding a replacement between the Glass/Foster/Doerue/Barlow types in-state or any other adequate options out of state is Drayton's single big recruiting whiff of his Texas tenure at this point, and it's a big one considering his only previous big recruitment was Ingram. Landing Brown as a RB2 was good, not landing another RB was terrible; Brown has an unexpected career threatening illness, and then Whittington gets injured, and a true freshman QB is forced into the lineup. Someone like Glass or Foster would have helped there.
2020- In a historically loaded RB class, both locally and nationally, means the RB class is a failure if the class doesn't land at least one heavily pursued running back, preferably a 5*. Drayton closes the deal with arguably the best of the best over strong competition from Ohio State and deserves strong applause for this recruitment, and then lands an interesting Darren Sproles/Quentin Griffin type of RB2 in Ty Jordan. The national class being so strong helps Drayton land a 5* since the supply is high leading to less competition than you'd typically expect, but landing a 5* means you're doing your job, and then some. Ty Jordan decommits, which isn't a big deal if he's replaced. Tre Bradford would be an adequate replacement, arguably an improvement, and would give Drayton at least an A-grade for this class.
TLDR: Drayton had nothing to do with 2017, did fine in 2018, did poorly in 2019, and great for 2020. Mixed bag; ok, poor, and great, so far.