We're more than one week removed from the late national signing period opening up, and the recruiting classes of the Big Sky Conference have come into better focus. The Big Sky is loaded with outstanding incoming high school prospects, and this conference will figure prominently into our national rankings next Wednesday.
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2018 FCS RECRUITING: HERO Sports ranked the Top 25 recruits
2017 FCS RECRUITING: HERO Sports ranked the Top 250 recruits
2017 FCS RECRUITING: HERO Sports ranked the Top 50 teams
Here are a couple of things to know:
- HERO Sports will publish an FCS national Top 50 classes piece and a FCS Top 250 incoming freshmen piece on Feb. 21. Leading up to that, we'll be breaking down each conference — all 13 — from an "top individuals" standpoint.
- How did we come up with our ranking list below? Simple — it's subjective, but all recruiting rankings are that way. We combined 247Sports, Rivals, the players' offer lists and our own thoughts to come up with our version of the FCS recruiting rankings. We provide some of their other top offers in the charts. This is our third year doing this.
- We don't include junior college or 4-year school transfers in any of this work. This is strictly incoming high school graduates.
So below are the rankings for the Big Sky.
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QUICK THOUGHTS ON THE BIG SKY: Montana State and Eastern Washington really hauled in some outstanding recruits in the 2018 cycle, and the Big Sky in general really impressed. Weber State also did well, as did Montana and U.C. Davis — and let us not forget to mention the outstanding class Southern Utah came up with. But the Bobcats and the Eags lead the Big Sky pack, clearly, and will fair very well in the national rankings to be released on Wednesday. MSU edges EWU for the Big Sky recruiting title.
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THE BIG SKY CONFERENCE TOP 40
| 1 | WEBER STATE | WR | Devon Cooley | Bellflower, CA | 6'1" | 160 | UCLA decommit – 7 P5 offers |
| 2 | EASTERN WASHINGTON | LB | Tre Weed | Sumner, WA | 6'0" | 190 | Syracuse, BYU – 14 offers |
| 3 | U.C. DAVIS | OL | Jake Parks | S.J. Capistrano, CA | 6'4" | 300 | Boise State, San Diego St., Fresno St. |
| 4 | MONTANA STATE | RB | Sherod White | Brentwood, CA | 5'8" | 170 | Idaho, New Mexico, Howard |
| 5 | EASTERN WASHINGTON | WR | Anthony Stell | Seattle, WA | 5'10" | 170 | Oregon St., Hawaii, Nevada – 10 offers |
| 6 | MONTANA STATE | OL | Donny Long | Norco, CA | 6'4" | 280 | Arizona State – 5 total offers |
| 7 | MONTANA | OL | Cole Sain | Bellflower, CA | 6'4" | 290 | Air Force – 10 total offers |
| 8 | NORTH DAKOTA | OL | Mike Bruner | Thiensville, WI | 6'3" | 205 | Iowa decommit, Iowa State offer |
| 9 | NORTHERN COLORADO | OL | Ezekiel Creps | Arvada, CO | 6'5" | 270 | Colorado, Colorado St, Hawaii |
| 10 | SOUTHERN UTAH | RB | Draycen Hall | Gilbert, AZ | 5'8" | 170 | Arizona, Navy, Air Force, Army, Columbia |
| 11 | MONTANA STATE | DB | Ty'Rese Gibson | Paramount, CA | 6'0" | 160 | San Jose State, Idaho, Howard |
| 12 | MONTANA STATE | DB | Ty'Rhae Gibson | Paramount, CA | 6'0" | 180 | San Jose State, Idaho, Howard |
| 13 | SOUTHERN UTAH | WR | Lance Lawson | Mesa, AZ | 5'9" | 185 | Arizona, Montana, No.Colo. |
| 14 | CAL POLY | OL | JoJo Falo | San Diego, CA | 6'2" | 270 | Air Force, Utah State |
| 15 | WEBER STATE | WR | A.J. Allen | Buena Park, CA | 6'2" | 170 | Colorado decommit – 4 FBS offers |
| 16 | MONTANA | DB | Nash Fouch | Woodinville, WA | 6'3" | 190 | Idaho, Air Force, EWU, MontSt, UNI, Cornell |
| 17 | MONTANA STATE | RB | Isaiah Ifanse | Bellevue, WA | 5'8" | 180 | Navy, Air Force, Idaho, SacState |
| 18 | SACRAMENTO STATE | WR | Jarrell Anderson | Seattle, WA | 6'4" | 240 | Hawaii, Navy, Idaho, Utah St – 7 total |
| 19 | U.C. DAVIS | WR | Lance Babb | Montebello, CA | 6'0" | 195 | 5 FBS offers, 10 total |
| 20 | SOUTHERN UTAH | DB | Logan Taylor | Harbor City, CA | 5'11" | 180 | Vanderbilt – 5 offers |
| 21 | MONTANA STATE | QB | Casey Bauman | Everson, WA | 6'4" | 215 | Idaho |
| 22 | EASTERN WASHINGTON | ATH | Freddie Roberson | Seattle, WA | 6'2" | 180 | Nevada, Weber State |
| 23 | IDAHO STATE | RB | Tu'u Afu | Sandy, UT | 5'11" | 215 | Air Force, Idaho |
| 24 | SACRAMENTO STATE | LB | Armon Bailey | Fairfield, CA | 6'2" | 215 | Hawaii, Idaho |
| 25 | MONTANA STATE | S | Malik Putney | Sammamish, WA | 6'0" | 195 | Hawaii, academies, Idaho |
| 26 | NORTHERN COLORADO | WR | Jaren Mitchell | Carrollton, TX | 5'9" | 175 | BYU decommitment, Colo. State |
| 27 | EASTERN WASHINGTON | QB | Simon Burkett | Bellingham, WA | 6'3" | 180 | Committed early |
| 28 | MONTANA STATE | WR | Mekhi Metcalf | Seattle, WA | 6'4" | 185 | Idaho – UNI, Weber State |
| 29 | MONTANA STATE | DT | James Williams | Aledo, TX | 5'9" | 205 | Academies |
| 30 | U.C. DAVIS | DE | Cade Peacock | Sammamish, WA | 6'4" | 240 | Utah State, Idaho State, Montana State |
| 31 | WEBER STATE | DB | Beau Tuua | Provo, UT | 6'3" | 210 | Hawaii |
| 32 | U.C. DAVIS | OL | Nico Sarale | Oakdale, CA | 6'4" | 260 | Fresno State, Air Force – 9 offers |
| 33 | EASTERN WASHINGTON | DB | Darrien Sampson | Seattle, WA | 6'1" | 160 | Hawaii, Northern Iowa, Portland State |
| 34 | EASTERN WASHINGTON | RB | Micah Smith | Graham, WA | 6'0" | 190 | Hawaii, Idaho, Montana State |
| 35 | MONTANA | WR | Cole Grossman | Vancouver, WA | 6'4" | 205 | Wyoming, Hawaii, Portland State |
| 36 | NORTHERN COLORADO | ATH | Keion Cross | Colorado Springs, CO | 5'9" | 160 | Hawaii, Air Force |
| 37 | SOUTHERN UTAH | DE | Mikey Petty | Draper, UT | 6'3" | 215 | BYU, Idaho State |
| 38 | SOUTHERN UTAH | OL | Artese Gregory | Plainfield, IL | 6'1" | 275 | Akron, La Tech, |
| 39 | U.C. DAVIS | WR | Justin Kraft | Rocklin, CA | 6'0" | 165 | Hawaii, Air Force – 5 offers |
| 40 | WEBER STATE | OL | Trevor Szilagyi | Littleton, CO | 6'5" | 260 | UTEP, Northern Colorado |
