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The Process: Detroit Four-Star Safety Jaylen Kelly-Powell Talks About the Things That Really Matter

If you were a highly-touted, heavily-recruited, future Division One athlete, how would you decide what school – and football program – you'd attend?

There are so many things that go into that decision that, at times, it almost seems impossible for the country's top players to separate what's important from what's just fluff. Social media has spotlighted every move the elite prospects make and brought attention to every thing they think, say and do.

Wins, losses, coaching continuity, academic prestige – and heck even uniforms for some – can get jumbled into a confusing mess capable of paralyzing even the most analytical mind.