Pretty tough for anyone here to make a judgment on a "reach". I generally look at it as a positive when Franklin gets commitments from the players he identifies early in the process. But then again there seem to be times when the staff sends out an offer to a highly publicized recruit early in the process but when that player participates in a camp at PSU or elsewhere that the staff attends his performance or testing causes the staff to back off.
And then on the other hand there are players that are late bloomers or haven't gotten to camps or gotten followed that show up at camps or on the PSU campus that test great, show their skills to the staff and get offered, like what seemed to happen with the PA WR Haynes.
Add in the fact that even some great prospects don't continue to advance their play, or don't adapt to the college game, and from a fans perspective we really don't have much to go on until we actually see players line up in Blue and White and play the game against B10 competition.
Which is why I try to get to every B/W game, the first opportunity to see many of the young players in some sort of action where an opinion on their skill set can be made. Sort of.......