College Football Recruiting 2012: Scout and Rivals Most Overrated and Underrated

For this I'm just going to give you a quick run down of a couple of recruits on the Scout.com and Rivals' lists that I think are overrated or underrated. Like any other person with an opinion, I have some differences in my lists from theirs.

So I'm going to give you both the most overrated and most underrated recruit on the overall rankings lists of players from both Scout.com and Rivals.com.

Let's get it on.

Scout.com Most Overrated: Jarron Jones, DT

I like Jones very much. But even Rivals has this guy all the way down in the 60s. Scout has him inside their top 25, and he's a 5-star recruit.

Jones will be a starter in college and has many different offers, but having him as an elite player at the 5-star rating is iffy for me.

I need to see what kind of year Jones has this year and get a bit more film studied on him.

Scout.com Most Underrated: Jabari Ruffin, OLB

Ruffin is a 6'4", 235 pound monster. He's got size, length, athleticism and toughness.

Per Rivals, he's the 46th overall ranked recruit in the country, and even ESPNU has him very high on their list.

But he's not even in the Scout.com top 100, so he easily makes this list at this specific slot. Not sure what Scout.com is missing or not seeing, but a big, mobile and athletic LB that can man the SAM spot or even play TE is welcome on my team any day of the week.

Rivals.com Most Overrated: Zach Banner, OT

Banner, in my opinion, is a right tackle. He struggles with speed and quickness as a pass protector, and you just can't have that as a left tackle prospect in your scouting report and evaluation.

He needs to short-set mostly to be able to latch his big and heavy hands on a defender and win with strength. He's very athletic for his size, but I'm not sure he's a LT.

Having him as the 31st best player in the nation is rich for my blood by Rivals, I think he belongs in the 50s or 60s.

Rivals.com Most Underrated: Keith Marshall, RB

So ESPNU and Scout.com have Marshall as the No.1 RB in the country and an elite and highly ranked recruit, while Rivals has him as the No.55 overall player? That's fishy.

Marshall easily takes the cake here as the most underrated player on the Rivals 100, as the 5'11", 190 pound speedy RB prospect is a hot commodity in recruiting.

Rivals is wrong on this one.