A couple of notes: This isn’t best player or most important. As a list based on intrigue, it skews a bit toward youth and new players, but there will be plenty of established contributors, too.
The only scholarship player not considered for the list is defensive lineman Jahkeem Green, because at the outset of our countdown he is still in junior college and is only verbally bound to Nebraska.
Fisher said the 5-foot-11, 175-pound Pola-Gates, of Gilbert, Arizona, will begin his college career at safety, where he could immediately compete for playing time behind projected starters Deontai Williams and Marquel Dismuke, a pair of juniors.