The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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MARCH 2017 THE WOLVERINE 59 2017 FOOTBALL RECRUITING ISSUE MEASURABLES • Entering his senior season Jeter could bench press 335 pounds. STATISTICS • Had 76 tackles, including 15 tackles for a loss, 10 sacks, one fumble recovery and three pass breakups, as a senior. • Logged 67 tackles and 12 sacks during his junior cam- paign. • Recorded 87 tackles along with eight sacks on defense and caught eight passes for 161 yards and three touch- downs as a sophomore. HONORS • Helped lead Beaver Falls to the school's first-ever Penn- sylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association 3A state cham- pionship as a senior. • Listed as the 2016 Class 3A Defensive Player of the Year by PAFootballNews.com and named the Mr. PA Football Lineman of the Year for small schools (classes 1-3A) in 2016. • Was a member of the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette Fab 22 foot- ball team as a junior and senior. • Also made the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Terrific 25 as a senior. • Penn Live listed him No. 9 on its listing of the top 17 2017 recruits from the state. • Was a Pennsylvania Sports Writers' All-State pick as a ju- nior (Class AA) and senior (Class AAA). • Named USA Today All-USA Pennsylvania first team as a senior and second team as a junior. ALL-STAR GAMES AND CAMPS • Attended the Rivals Camp Series in Cleveland in 2015. RECRUITMENT • Jeter originally committed to Notre Dame Sept. 19, 2016 but decommitted one month later and just before his official visit to Michigan for the Illinois game (Oct. 22). • Committed to Michigan Oct. 23, 2016, but he did not make it public until the following day. • Jeter held offers from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Michigan State, Ole Miss, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Stanford, Tennessee, UCLA, Wisconsin and many others. • Defensive line coach Greg Mattison headed up Jeter's recruitment. NOTABLE • Born Dec. 7, 1998. • Jeter also played tight end in high school. • His older brother, Sheldon, is a forward for the Pittsburgh basketball team. • His father, Carliss, played college basketball for the Uni- versity of Tennessee-Chattanooga. • Before choosing to focus solely on football, Jeter shined on the basketball court, averaging 17.5 points per game as a sophomore. During his junior season, he averaged slightly less at 16.8 points per game, led his basketball team to a WPIAL state championship and earned Pennsylvania Sports Writers Class AAA All-State third-team honors. • Jeter is an early enrollee at Michigan. 2017 PROJECTION Jeter is not the biggest defensive lineman Michigan is bringing in, but he's as versatile and as athletic as any other member of the class. Because Michigan's defensive line is going to be young and not overly deep, some youngsters might have to play and Jeter could be one of them. THEY SAID IT Rivals.com Mid-Atlantic Recruiting Analyst Adam Fried- man: "6-5, 255 to 265 pounds is the right area for him, and he's really done a good job reshaping his body from his ju- nior year. He cut a lot of bad weight, he's got a much lighter frame now, and I think it's helped him with his endurance and overall potential. "As far as his game goes, I like what he can do across the entire defensive line. He's got a lot of versatility. He can play in a pass-rushing situation on the edge, and he can play in- side as a defensive tackle and stuff the run if you need him to. We have him listed as a defensive tackle, but he has a lot of versatility to him and I really like that. That will pay off for him in college." Jeter's Trainer, Terry Grossetti Jr. of Grossetti Perfor- mance: "Donovan weighed 290 pounds before, and now he's down to 260 — he lost all of that weight, and he got twice as strong. He looks smaller, but he actually looks like an NFL player now. "His body is completely changed. He's benching 335 in high school. I have all of his workouts from when he started and was bench pressing 185 pounds for 10 reps. Back then he was just a sloppy high school kid with a lot of potential." DONOVAN JETER DEFENSIVE END 6-3 • 260 BEAVER FALLS H.S. BEAVER FALLS, PA. RANKINGS STARS NAT. POS. STATE ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ — 13 (DT) 7 ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ — 34 8 ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ 248 11 (SDE) 8 ✪ ✪ ✪ ✪ — 28 9 PAFootballNews.com named Jeter its Class 3A Defensive Player of the Year in 2016. PHOTO COURTESY RIVALS.COM TERRY GROSSETTI JR. OF GROSSETTI PERFORMANCE "He actually looks like an NFL player now. His body is completely changed."