For the past few years the Oregon State Beavers football program has left a scholarship or two available for a prospect that slipped through the cracks after Signing Day.
Still in need of an offensive playmaker in the 2018 recruiting class, coach Jonathan Smith and his staff searched for an unsigned talent that fit their scheme.
Enter 247Sports three-star athlete I'Shawn Stewart, out of Bolingbrook High School (Bolingbrook, Illinois).
Despite scholarship offers from Eastern Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nevada, Syracuse, Toledo and others, the 5-foot-11, 165-pound playmaker slipped through the cracks and remained available into March.