Biggest surprise recruits you landed?

[FreshAppleJews]

In my dynasty for South Florida I had 4/6 of my receivers leaving me due to graduation/draft. My other two were juniors that luckily decided to stay. The best recruit on the boards was one that I created at WR. Somehow we snuck up and beat Texas, Auburn, and Alabama to the punch. I can't redshirt him since he is my starter but hopefully he'll put up big numbers. Also, he is a return man which is amazing since one of my receivers that left had that job. Did you nail any big recruits from a top program? Tell your story.

[Shroom]

I once grabbed a 4 star running back as Washington State who was interested in boise state. This guy was truly a program changer too, he had a 96 speed and could break tackles like it was nothing.

[FreshAppleJews]

Sweet! When I recruit I usually like to get speedy backs. You can pound them through the tackles and break out to the sidelines or you can use the famous pitch.

[AZ9er]

As 1* New Mexico State my first season, I signed a 4* FS that was interested in OSU, UT, USC... It was pretty shocking.

[FreshAppleJews]

Haha nice... I think I'm going to make another franchise to do a small school and be OC...

[ZoeK35]

In my First year at Eastern Michigan I was able to pull a 4* Rb from Texas that helped me build that program. But I left after 2 years and not sure how is career ended without me as the OC..And then at Iowa State as a 2 star school, I went head to head with Texas and Ohio State to snag a 4* TE who I converted to WR..Dude was 6'4 235 and was mid 80's in almost everything..He was straight Beast Mode, it was funny when he caught the ball and watching how much bigger he was than the CB.

[edwvu76]

As 2 star Washington state, about week 5 I noticed nobody was recruiting the #1 HB!! I put everything I had into him and made it to number 1, after that, his number 2 Alabama offered so I was sure I lost him. Ended up landing him in the first week of the off season!! Little did I know I was about to be fired, I still keep track of him, but the new Coach doesn't use him nearly enough!!

[waytofailself]

First year as Wake Forest (**) where I went 7-6. I landed the #6 QB in the country (4 star).

How did I do it? Recruiting was All-American, but for some reason no one had gone after this QB at all by around week 10 of the season. I just happened to see him because I missed out on another QB prospect. He's a scrambler that also has a good arm, and has really stablaized my QB position.

Strangely, it was between me and Western Kentucky to get him until the offseason. Then FSU went after him (who was previously his #1 school) because EJ Manuel went pro. Luckily, I got two timely 2x bonuses during the recruiting process, and I landed him on Week 5 of offseason recruiting.

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3012 yards passing, 26 TD 14 INT, 600 yards rushing, 7 rust TDs.