Michigan State football offers elite 5-star QB in the 2026 class

Michigan State football offered one of the nation’s best quarterbacks in the 2026 class in Brady Smigiel this week.

The Michigan State football staff has been handing out many offers to high school recruits all throughout the country. They recently offered five-star cornerback Brandon Lockhart from California and they are following suit with an extremely talented quarterback from California.

Any quarterback offer is very exciting, but this one is even more considering how talented he is.

Blessed to receive on offer from Michigan State University! @Coach_Lindgren @Coach_Smith pic.twitter.com/77eu6IvVFc

— Brady Smigiel (@BradySmigiel) January 25, 2024

Meet five-star quarterback Brady Smigiel

Brady Smigiel is a five-star quarterback from Newbury Park, Calif. He has extremely impressive height for a quarterback, at 6-foot-5 and 205 pounds. The 247Sports composite rankings have Brady listed as the No. 2 quarterback in the 2026 class and the No. 21 overall player.

As you would likely guess, Brady has a lot of other offers from big schools. He has 25 offers in total, including offers from Georgia, Michigan, Oregon, Washington, Notre Dame, Ole Miss, Miami, and Florida State. Twenty-five offers for a sophomore in high school is a lot, but I only imagine that number will keep rising.

Does MSU even stand a chance?

Typically you think Michigan State doesn’t have a chance in recruitments like this. I tend to feel that way as well. The Spartans haven’t landed a highly-ranked quarterback like Brady since Jeff Smoker back in 2000. He was a five-star and the No. 15 player and No. 2 quarterback in his class but since then, Michigan State hasn’t been able to recruit a high-level quarterback like that.

However, that maybe could change under Jonathan Smith. While at Oregon State, Smith originally recruited Aidan Chiles who was ranked very high as well. Chiles wasn’t as high as Brady or Smoker, but he was still a high four-star and the No. 58 player in his class. Michigan State hasn’t even had a quarterback that high, so maybe Smith can do that in East Lansing.

The next step in Smigiel’s recruitment is to get him on campus for a visit. That honestly would be an impressive feat on its own, but that is what MSU has to do to even have a chance in this recruitment. Crazy things happen in recruiting all the time, so you never know.