David Ellis: Dynamic Weapon Ready to be Deployed in 2020

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David Ellis: Dynamic Weapon Ready to be Deployed in 2020

Written by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)

Heading into the 2019 season, the Indiana Hoosiers had a running back room filled with talent, potential and depth. Ivory Winters left before his freshman season began, Cole Gest exited stage left and then after the season, Ronnie Walker transferred out. The attrition left IU with only two scholarship running backs with any type of experience and one scholarship true freshman. Stevie Scott and Sampson James are a formidable one-two punch and newcomer Tim Baldwin Jr. should be a nice addition but having only three scholarship running backs is a scary situation for an offense that wants to emphasize running the ball. Indiana’s coaches scoured the graduate transfer market and even looked at adding another running back to the freshman recruiting class. Ultimately though, they feel the best answer was already on campus. The decision was made to switch sophomore wide receiver and all-purpose athlete David Ellis to running back.

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2019 Indiana Football Positional Preview: Running Backs

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2019 Indiana Football Positional Preview: Running Backs

Written by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)

The Indiana Hoosiers have done a terrific job of recruiting at the running back position. After Tevin Coleman and Jordan Howard succeeded in Cream and Crimson and have shined in the NFL, running backs coach Mike Hart has some good selling points and the Hoosiers have reeled in some depth at the position.

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Countdown to 2019 IUFB Kickoff: 27 Days (Ivory Winters)

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Countdown to 2019 IUFB Kickoff: 27 Days (Ivory Winters)

Written by Amanda Pavelka

COUNTDOWN TO KICKOFF: 27 DAYS (#20 IVORY WINTERS)

Height: 6’0’’

Weight: 215 pounds

Hometown: Hayti, Missouri

Class: Freshman

Position: Running Back

Only 27 days remain until the long-awaited 2019 Indiana football season. The Hoosiers will make their season debut at Lucas Oil Stadium where they will take on the Ball State Cardinals on August 31st in a noon game. Today we will introduce a freshman running back who will wear the No. 20 jersey— Ivory Winters. 

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2018 Early Signing Period Signee Profile: RB Ivory Winters

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2018 Early Signing Period Signee Profile: RB Ivory Winters

Written by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)

Ivory Winters, 5’11”, 206 pounds, Hayti, MO (Hayti High School), RB, 247Sports Composite Ranking: 3-star (85.61) 

The Indiana Hoosiers know the kind of an impact an “under the radar” true freshman running back can have. After Stevie Scott burst onto the scene in 2018, IU’s backfield will add a pair of true freshman to the mix and will be hoping for more major contributions in the pair’s first year on campus. Sampson James is a four-star in-state player that everyone knows about. The player fans will need to get to know, and potentially very quickly, is Ivory Winters.

The all-purpose back from

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Indiana Football Will Be Hosting Major Prospects on a Huge IU Sports Weekend

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Indiana Football Will Be Hosting Major Prospects on a Huge IU Sports Weekend

Written by Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle) 

A big weekend in Indiana sports is upon us. The men’s soccer team is out on the west coast trying to complete their “Quest for Nine” in the College Cup. The men’s basketball team is hosting Louisville Saturday afternoon and the undefeated women’s basketball team will go for 9-0 on Sunday against Missouri State in Bloomington on Sunday. While these programs are looking for success on the pitch and the hardwood, the Hoosier football team will be trying to improve their future off the field by hosting 15 prospects that could help Tom Allen and his staff improve upon back-to-back five-win seasons. Here is the breakdown of prospects that will be in Bloomington this weekend from the list given to us by Matt Weaver of Peegs.com (Thanks, Matt): 

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Get to Know ’19 Target: Ivory Winters

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Get to Know ’19 Target: Ivory Winters

Written By: Kris Shankle (@Hoosierkris)

It all started when Ivory Winters was just a kid trying to have fun with his friends in the Clevelands apartment complex. They created a game called “killer”, where someone would take the football and throw it up as high as they could. Now whoever caught the ball was by himself against all the other kids, which at times ended up being as many as fifteen kids. The object then was to take on all these kids and find a way to score a touchdown before the other kids tackled you and had to start all over. “Killer” became the reason he fell in love with the game of football. It also taught him life lessons he never knew would end up helping him in the moment.

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