Talent comparison to other SEC teams

[Todd4State]

No. Forbes signed in December 2019 when Joe was the coach. He literally said in the linked article "a lot of it was about coach Moorhead and coach Buckley, that was a reason I wanted to go ahead and sign early."

https://247sports.com/college/missis...bes-140772021/

Cross also signed when Joe was the coach.

How does he get credit for the 2020 class that signed in December 2019 when Joe was the coach?

Dan gets some credit for the 2009 class because he became the coach in December 2008 and signing day wasn't until February 2009.

Fair enough. So let's run through what Leach recruited.

QB- Sawyer Robertson- Heisman candidate that Arnett ran off for Mike Wright.

RB- Seth Davis who has been the surprise of camp at what Matt Wyatt thought was our deepest position and is now running third ahead of Johnnie Daniels.

WR- Makai Polk, Zavion Thomas, Jamal Mosley who is competing for a starting job and will certainly be in the WR rotation, Jamire Calvin, and former bowl MVP Justin Robinson. Creed Whittemore will be a productive receiver in college as well.

TE- Got me here!

OL- Cole Smith and Albert Reese who were both Hull Award winners and to answer your question yes I do think he gets drafted. NFL scouts have a hand in who wins the Hull Trophy after all and almost all of the previous winners were drafted. Then you have Canon Boone who is the leading candidate to start at center for us this year, Percy Lewis who was a four star and starter who moved on to two other SEC schools, Nick Jones, and Stephen LaSoya who moved on to another SEC school and started for Vanderbilt.

DL- Trevion Williams who was our best DL last year, Kalvin Dinkins, Deonte Anderson who all will start or be in the rotation this year and Randy Charlton who made the game saving play to win the 2022 Egg Bowl and started for us. Biggest issue with this group has been injuries.

LB- DeShawn Page who started for us and Zakari Tillman who is competing for a starting role this year.

CB- Kelley Jones who has started and will start and DeCarlos Nicholson who has started at MSU and USC

S- Isaac Smith who will start this year and is probably our best player on defense and likely draft pick, Jackie Matthews, Jalen Green who were both starters, and Marcus Banks who probably should have started and was still very productive.

K/P- Massimo Biscardi and Georgopolous were really good additions after 2021.

And you can say "well he had a lot of Moorhead's players" but Leach was our coach for three years. Of course he was going to play the recruits from the previous staff because he never had time to truly build his team. That said, he wasn't nearly as bad a recruiter as some want you to believe.

The reality is Arnett couldn't coach and was in over his head and hired the worst coaching staff in MSU history on offense and then blamed it on recruiting when their "MSU blue collar" football idea failed miserably.