What do pro-style quarterbacks Jeff Driskel, Cody Kessler, Max Wittek, Christian LeMay, Brandon Allen, David Ash, Kyle Boehm, Reilly O’Toole, TonyMcNeal, Chad Jeffries, Gary Nova and Cardale Jones all have in common?
They were all ranked ahead of MSU senior quarterback Connor Cook in the 2011 recruiting cycle.
Cook, who has emerged as one of the top quarterbacks in the country, was unranked nationally and very underrated coming out of Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
“I think Connor kind of started with a little bit of a chip on his shoulder, a little bit of an edge psychologically and competitively, because he wasn’t as highly regarded as these four-star or five-star recruits coming out,” Hall of Fame MSU quarterback Jimmy Raye II said.