East Lansing — How does he rank, this amazingly skilled passer and winner known as Connor Cook, when placed against earlier Michigan State quarterbacks?
Some of his forerunners proved not only at East Lansing but in the NFL that they had prize-winning talent: Earl Morrall, Kirk Cousins, Jim Miller, Drew Stanton, Tony Banks, Jim Ninowski, and even Brian Hoyer, who has been more of a story with four NFL teams than he was during his MSU days.
But it seems during these past 60 years — a reasonable time frame for comparisons — that none had as many overall physical tools, or as much skill, strength, accuracy and dynamism as Cook has been showing during his senior year with the Spartans.