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Throwback Thursday: Rutgers Football and Ohio starters as recruits

One of The Knight Report’s weekly game preview pieces is our Throwback Thursday piece, where we compare the projected Rutgers Football starters as recruits to their team’s opponent each week.

Since the first game of the season is on a Thursday, we decided to do this piece a week early. With that being said, let’s compare the Scarlet Knights to the Ohio Bobcats football team to see what they looked like and where they were ranked in high school.

Quarterback

Running Back

Wide Receivers

Tight End

Offensive Line

Looking across the board, Rutgers Football obviously has the higher ranked recruits throughout just about every position across the board. You could argue that the closest position group on offense in terms of the recruit ratings is the offensive line, but when you look a bit closer the Bobcats top ranked OL recruit, Shedrick Rhodes could barely crack the lineup at Rutgers last season.

Overall the Scarlet Knights have a significant advantage here on offense, but don’t count out Ohio’s quarterback Peter Navarro, as he’s one of the better at the Group of Five level.