Michigan State football the favorite to land 4-star WR Armani Winfield

In the middle of Texas’ Week 13 game against Kansas State, four-star Longhorn wide receiver pledge Armani Winfield announced that he would be reopening his recruitment. That was music to Michigan State football coach Mel Tucker’s ears.

The talented four-star receiver from Texas had been a top target for the Spartans for months and it looked like he was going to stick with the Longhorns for a while.

Fortunately, Tucker’s persistence in this recruitment has seemingly paid off.

There were rumors of Winfield leaning toward the green and white and a potential flip for Tucker that would send shockwaves through the recruiting world, but the decommitment announcement seemed to make those murmurs as loud as screams. Everyone is now believing in Tucker’s ability to land Winfield after a long recruitment.

According to 247Sports, Michigan State holds 85 percent of the crystal ball votes with 10 percent favoring Ohio State (old predictions) and the last five percent for Oklahoma.

Basically, Michigan State is the heavy favorite to land the Lewisville, Texas, native.

Winfield is ranked the No. 174 overall recruit in the 2022 class and the 25th-best receiver, according to the composite, and he would add to an increasingly impressive corps for next season.

What Michigan State football’s receiving corps would look like

Let’s just say Jalen Nailor and Jayden Reed come back next season, Michigan State will have its top three wideouts back, with Tre Mosley also returning, along with budding star Keon Coleman and a solid contributor in Montorie Foster.

A receiving corps with Nailor, Reed, Mosley, Coleman, and a 6-2, 180-pound Winfield along with Foster and Christian Fitzpatrick would make for an elite group. Mix in Jack Nickel, Kameron Allen, and Maliq Carr and Payton Thorne will have some elite targets to spread the ball around to.

Winfield would be a huge flip, the second in Michigan State’s class thus far. He would join Katin Houser as the other flip from Boise State and that follows up Ma’a Gaoteote flipping from USC in the 2021 class.

Tucker is flexing that recruiting muscle.