Super Bowl 2026 rosters: How Patriots, Seahawks starters rated as high school recruits before NFL

Super Bowl LX will pit the New England Patriots against the Seattle Seahawks, but these rosters tell a story that starts long before the NFL. Looking back at how these players were rated coming out of high school gives some perspective on the different paths that lead to the biggest game of the year. Not every starter in Sunday's game was a five-star recruit. In fact, there are more zero-star recruits (seven) -- players who weren't ranked at all -- than five-stars (four). But recruiting rankings are far from a guarantee of NFL success. They're designed to approximate potential, much like the NFL Draft, with roughly 32 industry five-star prospects identified in each class. That leaves the...