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or be a true 5-technique defensive end. That���s what I���m used to playing in high school. He said he gives his defensive linemen a lot of freedom and that it���s a very basic defense more than anything that just allows you to really fly around and make some big plays on the ball. That���s what I like doing. ���I have a real good motor and I think I���m a good pass-rusher. I think I did well with run defense this year and I���m starting to put on some weight, getting up to 240 right now. It���s coming along. I���m starting to fill in my frame. ��� It���s starting to come along. But I���m definitely a pass-rusher and my run defense is coming along.��� DEZWAN POLK-CAMPBELL Linebacker ��� 6-4, 215 M uch like Panfil, Polk-Campbell is tall, long and fast. Only he���ll play linebacker, manning an outside position, at least initially in his career. ���He���s everything you want in an athletic linebacker,��� linebackers coach Marcus Freeman said. ���He���s a kid that in two years, we���re going to look back and say, ���Wow, this kid has done some great things.��� He���s a smart kid, just a raw, athletic kid who can make things happen.��� Polk-Campbell���s receiver-like speed helped him rack up 93 tackles as a senior at Whetstone High School in Columbus, where Hazell and Freeman first recruited him at Kent State before the move to Purdue gave them the selling points to actually get him. A sprinter for Whetstone���s track team, Polk-Campbell claims 4.6-type 40yard speed. He also played receiver for Whetstone in important situations. ���It is his strength and not just up and down,��� Whetstone coach Don Puff said of Polk���s speed. ���He has good football speed, good lateral movement, as well as going up and down the field. He finds the ball fast, has a very good eye for it.��� Bill Tijerina Dezwan Polk-Campbell played both ways in high school, but he is projected to be a linebacker for the Boilermaker defense. Maybe into a defensive tackle, a position that would suit Replogle���s high-intensity style well, Ullery said. ���He���s a really blue-collar player, which I think is a huge compliment to any player,��� said Ullery, who���s been at Centerville since 1977. ���He���s an old-school, physical, passionate football player. He could have played in any era for us. I���ve been here a long time and he could have played 35 years ago for us and fit right in. He���s just a football player from a football family. ���I think he���s going to end up growing into an inside (lineman) on defense, Supporting Our Local Community Since 1965 JAKE REPLOGLE Defensive End ��� 6-4, 240 T here���s no telling what Purdue might have in time with the 6-4, 240-pound defensive line recruit from Ohio power Centerville High School. As a junior at Centerville, Replogle was just 6-2, just a little more than 200 pounds, and played linebacker. The following winter, he went through a growth spurt and played his senior season ��� again mostly at linebacker ��� at closer to his current size. He���ll get even bigger, Centerville coach Ron Ullery said, of Replogle, who���ll come to Purdue as a defensive end. ���Jake���s a really good player now, but he���s going to be way better in the future,��� Ullery said. ������ Right now, he���s probably 6-4-anda-half and probably close to 250. And he���s still got peach fuzz on his face and he���s wearing braces. He���s going to get way bigger. He���s got enormous room to grow.��� The Area���s Premier Orthopaedic and Sportsmedicine Center Robert J. Hagen, M.D. Peter J. Torok, M.D. Michael E. Highhouse, M.D. Daniel J. Daluga, M.D. Mark C. Page, M.D. John T. Bauman, M.D. Michael D. Krauss, M.D. 765.447.4165 | www.lafayetteortho.com GBIprint.com GoldandBlack.com Gold & Black IllustrateD ��� volume 23, issue 4 ������ 21 GB_2012-2.indd 1 6/12/12 10:05 AM