It’s not always about the four- and five-star recruits.
In fact, the modern history of Rutgers football was built on players who were the opposite.
Name one of your all-time favorite Scarlet Knights, and chances are they arrived on campus as a two-star recruit … or lower. Sure, Rutgers has landed some higher-profile recruits who went on to become stars – Kenny Britt, Anthony Davis and Ray Rice, among others – but the bulk of the Scarlet Knights’ success in the Greg Schiano era and beyond has been thanks to an ability to find diamonds in the rough and develop them.