After wrapping up spring ball last week, Pat Fitzgerald and Michigan State turned their attention toward offseason roster-building as well as the 2027 recruiting class.
Fitzgerald landed a transfer receiver right after the Spring Showcase on Saturday and I’m sure he’ll look to the portal for maybe 1-2 more guys, depending on how much room he anticipates to have for newcomers. He’s already locked up his 2026 recruiting class and now he gets to focus on his first full cycle at Michigan State in 2027.
There have been some big names scheduling official visits over the past month or so, but a potential diamond in the rough just locked in his trip to East Lansing for June.
According to Steele Harris’ Twitter account, the No. 1 recruit from the state of Montana will be in East Lansing on June 19 for a three-day official visit. Harris is a 6-foot-3, 190-pound athlete from Great Falls, Mont., and 247Sports ranks him the No. 721 overall recruit and 47th-best “athlete” in the country.
Steele Harris could be a diamond in the rough
Although he’s listed as an athlete, it looks like Harris is projected to play receiver at the next level just based on the fact that Courtney Hawkins is listed as his primary recruiter.
However, he does a little of everything and put up some impressive numbers during his junior season. He had over 1,200 all-purpose yards and 12 touchdowns and he recorded 52 tackles, nine tackles for loss, five sacks, an interception, and a forced fumble, per his 247Sports page. He’s also a track star, running the 100-meter dash and partaking in the long jump. That’s the kind of versatile athlete that Michigan State has been missing for years.
The term “diamond in the rough” gets used a lot in recruiting, but it feels like the best recruit from an under-recruited state like Montana has to be better than what his national ranking suggests.
The receiving corps could use another impressive athlete to follow the footsteps of guys like Keon Coleman and Nick Marsh who Hawkins was able to land. Harris has seen what Hawkins can do with plus athletes and he probably knows that Michigan State likely gets him to the NFL at receiver.
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