Rival Views: Who will make us regret not giving them fifth star?

Rivals.com National Recruiting Director Mike Farrell and National Recruiting Analyst Adam Gorney don’t always see eye to eye. In this edition of Rival Views, the two debate about which player just missing that fifth star could make us regret it.

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I’m going with some history here by taking D’Andre Swift, who will head off to Georgia. Why history? Back in 2012 I loved Todd Gurley at the Shrine Bowl. He never played in a national all-star game, so we ranked him No. 42 in the country overall, ahead of everyone else in the industry, but I wondered at the time if I should have been more aggressive. Of course, he played like a five-star at Georgia.

Then in 2014, Nick Chubb was just shy of a fifth star after much debate and was a superstar his freshman year and has been one of the best running backs in college football despite battling injury. And now here’s Swift, the highest-ranked non five-star in our Rivals100 and we could see something similar happen.

Swift isn’t as sudden as Najee Harris or Cam Akers and not as elusive as Khalan Laborn, but he has a powerful lower body, runs behind his pads and is patient with good vision. Maybe he will continue the trend of falling slightly short on UGA running back commitments.

I could also see guys like Ohio State quarterback commitment Tate Martell, FSU slot receiver D.J. Matthews or USC running back Stephen Carr also making us look a bit off, but I’ll go with Swift.

Jay Tufele finished three spots away from being a five-star prospect and I’m concerned I might regret not bumping him up to that highest ranking because Tufele could be an outstanding defensive tackle for many years to come.

I was actually surprised at the Army All-American Bowl that the South Jordan (Utah) Bingham prospect wasn’t more barrel-chested and broader. For 300-plus pounds, he carried it really well. It looks like he could even add more good weight to his frame to make him even more powerful. Tufele has an excellent mix of speed, power, technique and athleticism up the middle. He’s not just a guy who can bull rush his way into the backfield but he can shoot the gaps, get small to make it hard to block him and, yes, he can also use that power to dominate the line of scrimmage.

I get the sense that wherever Tufele ends up – whether it is Utah, BYU, Ohio State, USC or wherever – he’s going to have a great chance to be an outstanding defensive tackle and he’s exactly what NFL teams look for up the middle.

Is he a five-star? That is certainly debatable. Like Georgia RB commit D’Andre Swift, Florida State WR pledge D.J. Matthews, USC RB commit Stephen Carr and others, the line between five-star and really highly-ranked four-star is very thin.

I know this: Tufele has a great opportunity in college to dominate and be special. I just saw him do just that against the nation’s best at the Army Bowl.