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DEANGELO YANCEY DAVID YANCEY Wide Receiver ��� 6-2, 200 Running Back ��� 5-10, 205 T he early commitment and midyear enrollee considers himself an extremely versatile running back. His new coaches agree. ���He has so many positives,��� Williams, the running backs coach, said. ���He has great speed and runs extremely physical. But he���s extremely smart and understands the game, which helps a lot when it comes to pass protection; it will pay dividends for him down the road. He���s kind of a jack of all trades.��� The Rivals.com three-star running back was a dominant player as a senior at Lake Central in Northwest Indiana before his senior season was ended prematurely by a knee injury. Most of that damage ��� he ran for 17 touchdowns and almost 1,200 yards when healthy ��� was done at running back. But as a junior, and in certain situations as a senior, he played quarterback. He thinks that experience might help him from a leadership perspective. ���I���ve actually played quarterback for the majority of my life,��� Yancey said. ���I was always a quarterback who gets the ball and just runs all the time. In high school, I was looking forward to playing running back all four years, but I ended up going back to quarterback because one of our quarterbacks didn���t play his senior year, so I stepped up at quarterback for my junior and senior year. It went pretty well for me. But Purdue recruited me as a running back, so I���m at running back now.��� For more on Yancey, see Page 27. T he Atlanta Mays High School receiver was committed to Kentucky through its coaching change. Once he opened up, Purdue was right there waiting, getting him on campus and scoring a commitment quickly. In the 6-2, 200-pound receiver, Purdue feels it has a big-play-type threat. ���This kid has a lot, a lot of upside,��� Sherman said. ���I really like what he���s all about. He has some big hands on him. He���s another guy who can take it a long way, with good explosion. He has good size and I like his physical presence. He can pluck the ball out of the sky and make something happen.��� DeAngelo Yancey said his strength as a receiver is his ability to ���go up and get it.��� The Rivals.com three-star recruit scored eight touchdowns off just 29 catches as a senior. ���They said they wanted a bigger receiver, for one thing, and they said they thought I could come in and be a playmaker,��� he said. ���They told me I���m coming in with a good shot to play early, and it���ll be up to me whether I do or not.��� He chose Purdue over Missouri, North Carolina State and Wake Forest, among others, after de-committing from Kentucky. j Ziccarelli Builders, Inc. Construction Planners and Contractors Commercial & Industrial General Contractor LEED Certified Projects Bob Strempka David Yancey played multiple positions on offense for Lake Central in Northwest Indiana, but did most of his damage running the ball, gaining more than 1,200 yards. GBIprint.com GoldandBlack.com Augie Ziccarelli, CEM 1981 One Overlook Point, Lincolnshire, IL 60069 zicbuilders.com Phone: 847.913.1000 Gold & Black IllustrateD ��� volume 23, issue 4 ������ 23