It’s easy to get caught star-gazing when it comes to college football recruiting. If you pay any attention to recruiting at all, you’ve probably read arguments about how stars don’t matter while also reading separate stories about how obtaining five-stars is the barrier to entry into the CFP. As with most things in life, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Michigan has three five-stars on the roster: J.J. McCarthy, Chris Hinton and Daxton Hill. It’s hard to believe those three are the only ones when you see the production on the field out of the likes of Aidan Hutchinson (four-star), David Ojabo (four-star), Brad Hawkins (three-star), Hassan Haskins (three-star), Blake Corum (four-star), Andrew Steuber (three-star) and Erick All (four-star).