Class Autopsy

Michigan State 2023 — what happened to every signee.

Michigan State’s 2023 class brought in 18 signees. 0 reached the NFL.

18
signees, National Signing Day 2023
0
reached the NFL.

The journey stack

One row per signee, ranked by signing-day national rank. Each chit is a stop; the line between them is a transfer. Open a row for the season-by-season record.

Bai Jobe
No.55 national · EDGE
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2 transfersMiami (OH)
Michigan State — 2023: 0.0
Kansas — 2024: 0.0
Miami (OH) — 2025: 22.0
Andrew Depaepe
No.139 national · DL
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1 transferIndiana
Michigan State — 2023: unscored
Indiana — 2024: unscored, 2025: 0.0
Jordan Hall
No.167 national · LB
michigan-stateMSU
StayedNever transferred
Michigan State — 2023: 72.0, 2024: 24.0, 2025: 73.0
Stanton Ramil
No.222 national · OT
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StayedNever transferred
Michigan State — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Jaylen Thompson
No.230 national · DL
michigan-stateMSU
StayedNever transferred
Michigan State — 2023: unscored, 2024: 26.0, 2025: unscored
Sam Leavitt
No.313 national · QB
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1 transferArizona State
Michigan State — 2023: 23.0
Arizona State — 2024: 74.0, 2025: 42.0
Brennan Parachek
No.342 national · TE
michigan-stateMSU
StayedNever transferred
Michigan State — 2023: 24.0, 2024: 31.0, 2025: unscored
Cole Dellinger
No.452 national · IOL
michigan-stateMSU
StayedNever transferred
Michigan State — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
Chance Rucker
No.458 national · CB
michigan-stateMSU
StayedNever transferred
Michigan State — 2023: 40.0, 2024: 0.0, 2025: 11.0
Eddie Pleasant III
No.890 national · CB
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1 transferBuffalo
Michigan State — 2023: unscored
Buffalo — 2024: 27.0, 2025: 3.0
Jaelon Barbarin
No.903 national · ATH
michigan-stateMSU
PortalDestination unresolved
Michigan State — 2023: 29.0
Entered the portal — destination not resolved in the source data; shown as unknown, not guessed.
Rakeem Johnson
No.929 national · ATH
michigan-stateMSU
StayedNever transferred
Michigan State — 2023: unscored, 2024: unscored, 2025: unscored
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The receipts

No recruiting service wrote a word here. The national rank was the promise; what happened next is the whole story.

Never made the league

“The No. 55 player in America.”

signed Michigan State → never drafted

Peak grade of 22 on our 0–100 scale.

The report card

Star power and cohesion are graded against all 297 qualifying classes, 2021–2023. NFL production and on-field value are graded against just the 107 other 2023 classes — a 2023 signee simply hasn’t had as many draft-eligible years as a 2021 signee, so those two dimensions compare like-for-like instead of penalizing recency. Overall GPA still ranks across all 297.

C
Star power
16 recruiting points
C
Cohesion
61% never transferred
B
NFL production
0 drafted, vs. 2023 peers
C
On-field value
mean peak grade 30.9, vs. 2023 peers

The class the draft ignored

NFL production, 2023 signing classes in Michigan State’s conference

Michigan State’s 0 draft picks against every other qualifying class its conference signed the same year.

drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 100%
3
drafted: 33%remaining: 67%
1
drafted: 33%remaining: 67%
1
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
Michigan State
remaining: 100%
0
remaining: 100%
0
Source CFB Index · player_recruiting_profiles + player_nfl_draft

The fine print

Other ways to read the same class.

Star-weighted retention
59%
Of the class’s combined star rating, this much stuck around.
Fed the conference
1
Transfers that landed at another program in Michigan State’s current conference.
Dropped a level
0
Signees whose portal move landed below FBS.
The quiet middle
7
Never transferred, never drafted, 3-star or below. The class nobody writes about.