There is always a bit of a guessing element when it comes to high school recruiting.
You have to watch these players play against competition several steps below the Big Ten, then figure out whether their skills can translate. That’s why recruiting rankings are never perfect, or why “draft busts” exist in the NFL. There’s never a way to actually know.
Being able to reliably predict which players can play Big Ten football is, in basic form, the best way for Michigan State football to turn its fortunes around. Doing “more with less” is why Pat Fitzgerald lasted so long at Northwestern, after all, and MSU’s last three classes have finished no better than 43rd, according to On3.
Of the younger guys (players in their first or second years of football) on the Spartans’ roster, these three seem to stand out as players with some pretty nice futures:
WR Samson Gash (Fr.)
Joining the team in the coming months is Samson Gash. The 4-star wide receiver from Detroit Catholic Central stuck with his original MSU commitment over a late push from Penn State, one of Fitzgerald’s big early recruiting wins…