{"id":17435,"date":"2024-04-16T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=17435"},"modified":"2024-04-16T15:09:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:09:47","slug":"could-michigan-state-football-kick-off-the-2025-class-with-a-4-star-commit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=17435","title":{"rendered":"Could Michigan State football kick off the 2025 class with a 4-star commit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>With four-star linebacker Dante McClellan committing next week, Michigan State football could kick off its 2025 class with a bang.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-football-projected-to-land-top-10-in-state-recruit\/\">Michigan State football<\/a> has been quiet on the recruiting trail ever since National Signing Day. The Spartans signed a top-40 class for 2024 under Jonathan Smith, but we haven&#8217;t heard much about 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The cycle has been slow, but the staff is still putting in work.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, one of the top linebackers in the Midwest is announcing his commitment next week and Michigan State is one of five finalists.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Announcing my verbal commitment Monday, April 22nd 6pm est<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coachhall330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@coachhall330<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdwinGlick?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EdwinGlick<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bondedits15?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@bondedits15<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Cl1iafZ1XP\">pic.twitter.com\/Cl1iafZ1XP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dante McClellan 4\u2b50\ufe0f (@dante__il) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dante__il\/status\/1780054336380244132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, four-star linebacker Dante McClellan announced that he&#8217;ll be committing on April 22 at 6 p.m. ET and he&#8217;s deciding between Michigan State, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Louisville. That&#8217;s an interesting top five, but all of those programs have improved over the past year or two (Michigan State improved this offseason with the hire of Smith).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not going to be an easy recruitment for Smith to win as Missouri had a huge year, Kentucky has been consistently solid, Tennessee is an SEC contender, and Louisville has become an ACC contender.<\/p>\n<p>So could McClellan really become Michigan State&#8217;s first 2025 commit and kick the Spartans&#8217; class off with a bang?<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t count on it, unfortunately. While there&#8217;s still a chance, Steve Wiltfong of On3 placed a prediction on Tuesday afternoon for the four-star linebacker to pick Eli Drinkwitz and Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>Although just because he commits elsewhere next Monday doesn&#8217;t mean his recruitment is shut down. In fact, Michigan State is one of two programs in his top five that currently has an official visit lined up with him. He&#8217;s expected to visit East Lansing on June 1 before checking out Missouri on June 21.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 class could remain at zero commits after McClellan&#8217;s decision (Wiltfong is very plugged in) but I wouldn&#8217;t rule him out yet. And I would expect a huge boost to the 2025 class in the next week as the spring game will have plenty of visitors.<\/p>\n<p>This summer will be huge for Michigan State football recruiting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best linebackers in the Midwest is committing next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[700,191,189,504],"class_list":["post-17435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fb-recruiting","tag-dante-mcclellan","tag-michigan-state-football","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}