Chubba Purdy and Michael Alaimo were high on Michigan State’s board before they each committed elsewhere which left the coaching staff without a quarterback pledge in its 2020 class.
Just like last cycle, Michigan State has found it tough to land a quarterback. The Spartans ended up with former Western Michigan commit Payton Thorne in 2019, but it took almost the entire cycle to land him after losing Dwan Mathis to Ohio State and then ultimately Georgia.
This time around, Michigan State swung and missed on two priority targets and look to be slipping away with a third in CJ Stroud from California.