Dawand Jones OT from Ben Davis

[Bullwhip Griffith]

Anyone seen him play? Went from MAC offers to Miss St and USC in two weeks.

Doesn’t seem to fit the mold of an OL Purdue wants, but he must have some talent to get those offers

 

[PrintersRowBoiler]

The guy is a monster, 6-8 / 360 and may end up playing basketball as he has several mid-major offers. He showed tremendous improvement his senior year. His coach has pushed for Purdue to take another look at him and he did visit Purdue in March. IU has offered as well, but agree he does not seem to fit our mold. You can't coach that kind of size though! I have not seen him play, but it does not matter as I am not a scout and couldn't give you an evaluation!

 

[Dandelion1972]

I met this kid at one of the spring indoor practices last year.

HUGE. Soft-spoken and seemed like a pretty nice kid. At the time, Purdue was not recruiting him, but he came up with a busload of kids from Indy.

With his athleticism (basketball videos) it seems we ought to at least give him a look.

 

[chaspark]

His size sounds good so why does he not fit our mold? If he is athletic enough, I’d say offer him.

 

[Wolegib]

It appears Purdue already gave him one look.

 

[bled1720]

I've only seen him twice, and he is HUGE! But that's about it. Very raw as a football player. I'm certainly not an expert but I don't think he could play at Purdue.

USC and Miss State have offered?? Wow! Great for him but I don't think we'll offer

 

[PaBoiler78]

I've only seen him twice, and he is HUGE! But that's about it. Very raw as a football player. I'm certainly not an expert but I don't think he could play at Purdue.

USC and Miss State have offered?? Wow! Great for him but I don't think we'll offer

if Moorhead thinks he'd work in their system, then I'm all for it for our system.

 

[pboiler18]

I think Brohm wants his tackles more like Hermanns - 6'7" 295 than as "big" as Jones. I think the knock on him was that he wasn't really athletic at all.

 

[Bullwhip Griffith]

Got an FSU offer...kid is blowing up right now

 

[chaspark]

After what happened at Minnesota, I'd say offer him. They had a tackle sized at 6'9", 400 lb, who had manhandled our line. At worst we use his redshirt year to make him B1G worthy.

 

[Knights2715]

Obviously Brohm isn't offering him because he's trying to sabotage Purdue on his way out (TIC, in case it wasn't obvious enough)