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GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 25, EXPRESS 10 • 37 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 Position Height Weight 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 Twazanga Mugala DE 6-3 215 Charlotte, N.C./Ardrey Kell 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 New commitment in bold BY BRIAN NEUBERT BNeubert@GoldandBlack.com DEFENSIVE END COMMITS Purdue landed its first defensive line commitment for 2015 Thursday night when North Carolina's Twazanga Mugala committed to the Boilermakers a little more than a week after receiving a schol- arship offer. The 6-foot-3, 215-pound pass-rusher from Ardrey Kell High School in Charlotte was a late find for the Boilermaker staff, earning an offer while coaches were on the road last week for bye-week recruiting travel. "Academics were the No. 1 thing for me," Mugala said, "and with it being Big Ten football, it's the best of both worlds. It just stuck out to me. "I had other places I could have gone but they weren't in one of the most pres- tigious conferences in college football and they weren't as academically renowned as Purdue. I had family call me from (all over) and they all knew about Purdue. That was the prestige I was looking for." Mugala, who was born in Zambia but grew up in Sweden before moving to the U.S. in sixth grade, chose Purdue over of- fers from Connecticut, Navy and a host of smaller schools along with in- terest from Vanderbilt, Wake Forest and others. He becomes Purdue's 15th verbal commitment, give or take considering there are some fluid situations amongst those who have committed. Defensive end Twazanga Mugala gave Purdue its 15th verbal commitment.