Last week I put up an attempt at re-grading all the Michigan players dating back to whenever recruiting information can be divined. Somebody asked if I could show the constituent STAR ratings of Michigan's commits and targets.
Answer is here you go. Michigan's 2016 class so far, organized by STAR rating.
Again, this is a bit more precise ranking system than saying a guy is a 4-star to one site and a 5-star to another—it attempts to standardize the actual ratings so, for example a 5.7 (high 3-star) and a 70 (low 3-star) on ESPN won't look like the same thing. More details at this post.
| Name | Pos | Hgt. | Wgt. | State | STARs | Rivals | Scout | Espn | 247 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Bredeson | OT | 6'4 | 280 | WI | 4.38 | 4.50 | 4.50 | 4.00 | 4.50 |
| Brandon Peters | QB | 6'4 | 195 | IN | 4.25 | 4.25 | 4.25 | 4.00 | 4.50 |
| Kareem Walker | RB | 6'0 | 208 | NJ | 4.19 | 4.00 | 4.75 | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| David Long | CB | 6'0 | 170 | CA | 4.19 | 4.25 | 4.25 | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Michael Onwenu | OG | 6'3 | 367 | MI | 4.13 | 4.25 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 4.25 |
| Dylan Crawford | WR | 6'1 | 175 | CA | 4.06 | 4.25 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Ahmir Mitchell | FS | 6'3 | 203 | NJ | 4.06 | 4.25 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Devin Bush | MLB | 5'11 | 224 | FL | 3.88 | 4.00 | 3.75 | 4.00 | 3.75 |
| Brad Hawkins | SS | 6'2 | 195 | NJ | 3.81 | 3.75 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 3.50 |
| Carlo Kemp | SDE | 6'3 | 250 | CO | 3.75 | 4.00 | 3.75 | 3.50 | 3.75 |
| Ron Johnson | WDE | 6'3 | 221 | NJ | 3.75 | 3.75 | 3.25 | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Chris Evans | RB | 5'11 | 181 | IN | 3.63 | 3.50 | 4.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 |
| Eddie McDoom | SL | 6'1 | 170 | FL | 3.63 | 3.50 | 3.25 | 4.00 | 3.75 |
| Nick Eubanks | TE | 6'6 | 208 | FL | 3.63 | 3.75 | 3.00 | 3.75 | 4.00 |
| Elysee Mbem-Bosse | MLB | 6'2 | 228 | GA | 3.50 | 3.75 | 3.25 | 3.50 | 3.50 |
| Khaleke Hudson | Nk | 5'11 | 204 | PA | 3.44 | 3.25 | 3.50 | 3.00 | 4.00 |
| Stephen Spanellis | OG | 6'5 | 330 | MD | 3.19 | 3.50 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.25 |
| Joshua Uche | WDE | 6'1 | 217 | FL | 3.19 | 3.50 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.25 |
| Josh Metellus | SS | 6'0 | 187 | FL | 3.19 | 3.25 | 2.75 | 3.50 | 3.25 |
| Kingston Davis | FB | 6'0 | 242 | AL | 3.13 | 3.50 | 2.75 | 3.00 | 3.25 |
| Sean McKeon | TE | 6'4 | 230 | MA | 3.13 | 3.25 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.25 |
| Mike Dwumfour | NT | 6'2 | 282 | NJ | 3.13 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.25 | 3.25 |
| Devin Gil | WLB | 6'0 | 204 | FL | 3.06 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.25 | 3.00 |
| Dytarious Johnson | MLB | 5'11 | 215 | AL | 3.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 2.75 | 3.25 |
And here's the guys on the board, plus Nate Johnson since he still technically has a signing day announcement:
| Name | Pos | Hgt. | Wgt. | State | STARs | Rivals | Scout | Espn | 247* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rashan Gary | DL | 6'5 | 290 | NJ | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 | 5.00 |
| Devin Asiasi | TE | 6'5 | 253 | CA | 4.31 | 4.75 | 4.50 | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| Boss Tagaloa | NT | 6'3 | 303 | CA | 4.13 | 4.25 | 4.25 | 4.00 | 4.00 |
| LaVert Hill | CB | 5'11 | 173 | MI | 4.00 | 4.00 | 4.25 | 3.50 | 4.25 |
| Connor Murphy | SDE | 6'7 | 255 | AZ | 3.81 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 3.25 | 4.00 |
| Vic Viramontes | QB | 6'0 | 214 | CA | 3.56 | 3.50 | 3.50 | 3.25 | 4.00 |
| Isaiah Simmons | FS | 6'3 | 212 | KS | 3.56 | 3.50 | 3.25 | 3.50 | 4.00 |
| Nate Johnson | SL | 5'11 | 174 | TN | 3.31 | 3.25 | 3.25 | 2.75 | 4.00 |
| Alaric Jackson | OT | 6'7 | 285 | MI | 3.25 | 3.00 | 3.25 | 3.00 | 3.75 |
| Quinn Nordin | K | 6'2 | 200 | MI | 3.19 | 3.00 | 3.75 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
I highlighted a handful that appeared to disagree with the consensus. Since a lot of those were ESPN I'm taking another look at how I weighted ESPN.
Anything odd other than ESPN rankings? Let's go over the disagreements that were >.5 off the consensus.
Kareem Walker on Scout: Thanks helpful reader. Walker was a 5-star for a long time but his camp outings showed some of the finding a hole problems that plagued past Michigan 5-star running backs. He didn't take a tumble, but most sites dropped him from the low 5-star and #1 back to something closer to where De'Veon Smith wound up. Scout dropped him to the 3rd RB but let him keep his 5th star.
Khaleke Hudson on 247: Did you watch his highlight film? I think this is a classic example of a late-riser. If Penn State was telling him not to commit last summer then I can see why sites had him a low 3-star. Once you're out of the Top 300 or 250 or whatever that site is ranking, I think there's less chance for movement. There's a lot of players to rank and forget. Rivals had him a middling 3-star until their final rankings last week.
Kingston Davis on Scout: They're ranking him as a running back, placing him 95th among them. The rest of the sites appear to have ranked him as a fullback.
Devin Asiasi: At first glance it looks like Rivals is the outlier, but I think that's a fault of my ESPN problem. Really the outlier is 247 as you can see on their own composite score: 
Everyone else thinks he's a Top 50-ish and the 3rd or 4th TE in the country. 247 has him behind both of the OSU commits and the rare NJ player Michigan didn't get.
Quinn Nordin to Scout: Scout is the only site that doesn't keep kicker recruits artificially in the low-3's because they're kickers. I guess because #collegekickers.