Julius Green Set For January Arrival
by Owen on Dec 30, 2010 9:44 PM CST
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PrintTonight Jon Kirby from Jayhawkslant put out an article discussing incoming freshman Julius Green from the Houston area who will be on campus in January.
Green is a defensive end and those that track/follow recruiting probably remember his name from last year. Long story short, Green ran into a hiccup in qualifying but will be a freshman next fall when Kansas takes the field.
Now here's the part that's hard not to like. In speaking with Kirby, Green said;
Laptad was telling me he weighs 275 pounds and I just weighed in at 269".
If you're keeping score at home that's a 6'7" 270 pound defensive end. As a follow up, I can tell you that Laptad was not checking in at 275 during the football season, try just shy of 260.
Green is a Big 12 ready end. He has the length, he has the size and if all goes well he COULD be a key piece to the Kansas defensive front as a strongside defensive end.
I said it about a week or so ago, and again I don't want to compare him to these players, but the Chicago Bears play Julius Peppers and Corey Wooten. Peppers and Wooten check in at 6'7" 280 and 6'6" 270 respectively. The size is there, sometimes that's been missing for Kansas. Now the player just has to put the rest of the pieces together.
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Really hope this kid is a difference maker!
In his interview he mentions how close he got with coach Wyatt. Let’s hope Wyatt doesn’t make that move to Texas and take Green with him.
Wrong Coach Wyatt . . .
Green said he was close to Buddy Wyatt. Darrell Wyatt is the coach that Texas is supposedly courting.
Darrell Wyatt...
would be the one that flipped JaCorey Shepard from Iowa and Lynn from Iowa State. Those two would be the ones to keep an eye on if Texas offers Wyatt. I don’t think they go to Texas by any means, but they might look elsewhere.
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If Darrell Wyatt went to Texas . . .
Would he make less money? I’m hoping this might be the case, and he’ll end up staying with us.
Unless he is a starter at DE...
I want to see him move inside to DT. He’s got the size. The natural size. He’s a big clog, and if he has any pass rushing moves from his days at DE, that’s a huge plus. Aside from that, if he has a pulse he should at least make the rotation at DT. His size plus our lack of depth and talent means he could see early playing time as a DT.
keep in mind he's 6'7
So his 270 is not as big as as 6’3 kid’s 270. Not that he isn’t huge, but I don’t think he’ll have a DT frame by next season even if that is where they want him.
by PenguinHawk on Dec 31, 2010 4:13 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
all indications...
have been that they want him and guys like him at end.
My hunch for the starters next year are Toben and either Sellers or Green.
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Nah I'd keep him at end
If he succeeds it’ll help us recruit good ends in the future, and we’ve already plugged in like three ends at DT. I’d rather have a game-changer at end and worry about DT later.
Shit happens when you win championships
by Andrew Clark on Dec 31, 2010 6:31 PM CST up reply actions
He's just beginning to fill out a BB frame
I don’t have a problem with him staying at DE, but we are geting lots of speed capable of coming off the end. If he can put on another 20 – 30 lbs, he could be an absolute terror in the middle (Suh?) which would open up all kinds of opps for the rest of the DL, and an ocassional blitzing LB.
Mostly, I’m excited to see how a few of these guys develop in the next year or so.
reminds me
of george selvie from usf a few years back. don’t know if he’ll have the same affect on every passing down, but the size is quite similar
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27 lbs in a semester!
and that’s not even in a D1 weight program.
“Coach Wyatt is cool and he stayed in touch with me the whole time,” Green said. “We got closer the more we talked. I understood what he expects out of me. Coach Gill came by my house and him and my mom really connected. He really respected my mom and she appreciated that.”
Gill is the LR closer.
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