Michigan State's 2016 football recruiting class held steady at 20 verbal commitments and a national top-10 ranking from July until this week.
Now it's at 18 verbal commitments, a No. 12 Rivals.com ranking and another pledge who is exploring other options. Jonah Morris, a 6-foot-4 defensive back/receiver from Akron, Ohio who picked MSU over Notre Dame and others, told the Free Press in a text message that he wants to look around but that MSU is still "at the top of the list" of schools for him.
He said he wants to visit others – he declined to specify – and compare them to MSU because "I want to feel like the place I pick has something about it no one else has.