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GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 25, EXPRESS 9 • 35 Recruiting Roundup P R E S E N T S R E C R U I T I N G N E W S A N D N OT E S 1600 South Creasy Lane Lafayette, IN 47905 1-866-906-6223 www.BobRohrmanSubaru.com Bob Rohrman Subaru Buy a Subaru and Keep Indiana Driving. BRAND NEW 2015 SuBARu FORESTER PURDUE 2015 FOOTBALL COMMITMENTS Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown/School Markus Bailey LB 6-1 205 Hilliard, Ohio/Davidson Andy Chelf S 6-0 185 Southlake, Texas/Carroll Wyatt Cook LB 6-2 225 Owings Mill, Md./McDonough Sawyer Dawson LB 6-2 200 Plant City, Fla./Plant City Robert Ennis RB 5-10 170 Millville, N.J./Millville Tario Fuller RB 6-0 190 Sugar Hill, Ga./Lanier Markell Jones* RB 5-9 205 Columbus, Ind./East Ben Makowski LS 6-2 250 Mishawaka, Ind./Penn Matt McCann OL 6-6 305 Indianapolis, Ind./Bishop Chatard Joe Schopper P 6-0 190 Indianapolis, Ind./Cathedral Elijah Sindelar QB 6-4 200 Princeton, Ky./Caldwell County Peyton Truitt OL 6-5 297 West Lafayette, Ind./West Lafayette Isaac Warren CB 6-0 190 Tyler, Texas/John Tyler Richard Worship RB 6-1 245 Parma Heights, Ohio/Valley Forge * Anticipated mid-year signee BY BRIAN NEUBERT BNeubert@GoldandBlack.com POINT GUARD COMMITS Purdue picked up its first 2016 com- mitment Tuesday when Indianapolis Ar- senal Tech's C.J. Walker decided to end his recruitment unexpectedly following a morning meeting at his school with Boiler- maker associate head coach Jack Owens. "It was the education — it's a great school — and the basketball side of it, being in the Big Ten, which is a great con- ference," Walker said. "They have a great coaching staff with great coaching stabil- ity. The fans are loyal; they have a lot of fans at all their games and a lot of their games are on (TV) so there's a lot of exposure. I think I'll be able to play pretty early in my career so I won't have to ride the bench for a long time. "I was 100 percent with it, so I went ahead and made my decision." When Purdue decided earlier this fall it was going to recruit a point guard in its 2016 class, Walker was the first player it turned to, offering him a scholarship dur - ing a full-staff visit to his high school in early September. Walker averaged 8.3 points and 3.2 as- sists per game as a sophomore at Tech, playing a key role on a senior-dominated Ti- tan team that ranked as one of the best high school teams in Jon Lopez/Nike Indianapolis Tech point guard C.J. Walker is Purdue's first 2016 commitment.