McSorley's 2018 ranking is a 26-spot improvement from the same poll last year.
Hackenberg was waived by the Raiders Tuesday only a few weeks -- 21 days, to be exact -- after he was traded to Oakland by the New York Jets.
Bobby Engram, Steve Wisniewski, and Jeff Hartings are three of 76 players on the ballot for the 2019 College Football Hall of Fame.
Oakland will send a conditional seventh-round pick to the Jets in exchange for Hackenberg, who never saw the field in a regular season game during two seasons as a Jet.
The Mineral, VA, native committed to Penn State over Ohio State, Alabama, and Michigan, among others, and will join Brent Pry's defense in 2019.
Ford becomes the fifth member of Penn State's 2019 recruiting class.