Hindsight being 20-20, it’s easy to ask, “How in the heck did so many college football coaches miss on this prospect or that prospect?”
In the college sports world, and especially in football, it’s easy to overlook late bloomers or diamonds in the rough.
A number of relatively under-the-radar prospects have landed at Michigan colleges and flourished at the collegiate and/or professional levels. Michigan State, Western Michigan and Central Michigan have been particularly adept at identifying those types of players.
MLive takes a look at some of the more recent players who fit that description. We list them in descending order from most overlooked prospect to least overlooked (least overlooked among this group of players, that is).