Johnny Adams
5-foot-11, 170-pound cornerback
5-foot-11, 170-pound cornerback
Hometown Akron, Ohio (Buchtel High School)
Rivals.com and Scout.com rating (out of 5) 3/3
Dantonio’s dig “The thing that sort of impresses me is the guy must have some toughness, because when we went and watched him play in person (his high school coach) came back and said he’s playing middle linebacker. He also played some defensive end.”
6-foot-1, 207-pound safety
Hometown Detroit (Southeastern High School)
Ratings 3/2
Dantonio’s dig “He’s a big body strong safety — a thumper. He covers a lot of ground and should be an immediate contributor for us.”
6-foot-6, 265 pound offensive lineman
Hometown Battle Creek (Gull Lake High School)
Ratings 2/2
6-foot-1, 210-pound linebacker
Hometown Dublin, Ohio (Coffman High School)
Ratings 3/3
Dantonio’s dig “He reminds me a lot of A.J. Hawk, in terms of what he brought to Ohio State. A.J. was not the fastest linebacker coming in or the big best linebacker coming in.”
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6-foot-7, 273-pound defensive end
Hometown Novi, Mich. (Novi High School)
Ratings 3/3
Dantonio’s dig “We went through our first winter conditioning program (Wednesday) at 5:30 in the morning and that young man performed as well as anybody on our entire team.”
6-foot-7, 295-pound offensive lineman
Hometown Columbiaville, Mich. (North Branch High School)
Ratings 2/2
6-foot-3, 235-pound defensive lineman
Hometown Chesterfield, Va.(Manchester High School)
Ratings 2/1
6-feet, 185-pound athlete
Hometown Inkster, Mich. (John Glenn High School)
Ratings 3/2
Dantonio’s dig “He’s a guy that’s phenomenal. I think he fits the bill as far as playing the position that was vacated recently by (Devin Thomas).”
6-foot-5, 271-pound tight end/defensive end
Hometown Sterling Heights, Mich. (Henry Ford II High School)
Ratings 3/2
5-foot-9, 197-pound running back
Hometown Southfield, Mich. (Brother Rice High School)
Ratings 3/3
Dantonio’s dig “He came to camp with some highly touted running backs and at the end when we really looked at films and looked at all this stuff we said ‘That guy right there is as good as anybody in the state’.”
5-foot-10, 180-pound cornerback
Hometown Bay City, Mich. (Bay City Central High School)
Ratings 2/2
6-foot-3, 225-pound linebacker
Hometown Piqua, Ohio (Piqua High School)
Ratings 3/2
6-foot-6, 270-pound offensive lineman
Hometown Lake Orion, Mich. (Lake Orion High School)
Ratings 3/3
Dantonio’s dig “This guy’s an outstanding football player. He played defensive end, defensive tackle and also offensive tackle. Whenever (we) watched him … he showed up over and over and over again.”
6-foot-2, 207-pound wide receiver
Hometown Detroit (Southeastern High School)
Ratings 4/4
Dantonio’s dig “Tremendous athlete showing … gets off the line of scrimmage very well, has great han,600 yard plus last season and is a young man who could have played anywhere in this country.”
6-foot-4, 220-pound athlete
Hometown Delaware, Ohio (Olentangy High School)
Ratings 2/2
6-foot-3, 218-pound safety
Hometown Marietta, Ga. (Sprayberry High School)
Ratings 3/3
Dantonio’s dig “When it comes down to what type of safeties we want to recruit, we want thumpers. We want guys who can blitz and play the ball in the deep part of the field and Brynden is that type of individual.”
6-foot-1, 160-pound wide receiver
Hometown Livonia, Mich. (Stevenson High School)
Ratings 2/2
6-foot-3, 230-pound linebacker
Hometown Lima, Ohio (Trotwood-Madison High School)
Ratings 2/2
Dantonio’s dig “He’s an outstanding linebacker. He’s able to shed blockers, he’s a big bodied guy (and a) very good athlete.”
6-foot-1, 215-pound running back
Hometown Detroit (Denby Tech)
Ratings 3/3
6-foot-3, 305-pound offensive lineman
Hometown Melvindale, Mich. (Melvindale High School)
Ratings 3/2
6-foot-3, 290-pound defensive tackle
Hometown Huber Heights, Ohio (Wayne High School)
Ratings 3/2
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