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College football recruiting has changed with the rise of the transfer portal in recent years. Some Power 4 programs don’t invest as much energy into finding hidden gems as they once did.
But those under-the-radar guys are still out there. And they can make a big impact on very good teams.
I dug through a 10-year window (2015 class through 2024 class) and picked the best recruiting “find” for each school.
There was one parameter: Players had to be ranked outside the top 500 in the 247Sports Composite.
The goal was to find the right mix of an under-recruited player who produced at the college level and, in most cases, developed into an NFL Draft pick.
You get the idea…
Minnesota: Antoine Winfield Jr., S, 3-star, No. 1,392 (2016) — Baylor, Houston, Michigan State and Northwestern offered the undersized defensive back out of The Woodlands (Texas) High School. He signed with the Gophers and became a unanimous All-American in 2019 before winning a Super Bowl and becoming a Pro Bowler with the Tampa Bay Bucs.
College football recruiting has changed with the rise of the transfer portal in recent years. Some Power 4 programs don’t invest as much energy into finding hidden gems as they once did.
But those under-the-radar guys are still out there. And they can make a big impact on very good teams.
I dug through a 10-year window (2015 class through 2024 class) and picked the best recruiting “find” for each school.
There was one parameter: Players had to be ranked outside the top 500 in the 247Sports Composite.
The goal was to find the right mix of an under-recruited player who produced at the college level and, in most cases, developed into an NFL Draft pick.
You get the idea…
Minnesota: Antoine Winfield Jr., S, 3-star, No. 1,392 (2016) — Baylor, Houston, Michigan State and Northwestern offered the undersized defensive back out of The Woodlands (Texas) High School. He signed with the Gophers and became a unanimous All-American in 2019 before winning a Super Bowl and becoming a Pro Bowler with the Tampa Bay Bucs.