Top 10 highest-rated Michigan HS football players since 2000
4. Kelly Baraka, RB, Portage Northern – 0.9944
Baraka is one of a couple of guys on this list whose football career didn鈥檛 live up to its potential, but that doesn鈥檛 take away the tremendous years he had at Portage Northern, where he became a five-star recruit and All-American. Baraka was rated as the No. 12 player overall in the Class of 2001, and is 226th highest-rated recruit nationally all time.
A speedster who was also a state champion sprinter at Portage Northern, Baraka committed to join the Michigan Wolverines where he was poised to become the program鈥檚 next star running back. Instead, he was arrested twice for marijuana possession before he ever took the field at Michigan Stadium. He was suspended by head coach Lloyd Carr, and eventually dismissed from the team.