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Written By Lauralys Shallow
Height: 6’3”
Weight: 307 pounds
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN (Ben Davis High School)
Class/Position: Sophomore/Defensive Tackle
Read MoreWritten By: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)
Our next position preview as look ahead to the 2018 season focuses on the defensive line. Position coach and co-defensive coordinator Mark Hagen is a wizard and a real asset to the program and it’s hard to imagine the Hoosiers having anything other than a solid line with Hagen in charge. This personnel group has the chance to be more than just solid but there are certainly some question marks as IU must replace steady Nate Hoff and a pair vastly improved players in Greg Gooch and Robert McCray. We’ll split this into four different sections: tackle starters, tackle contributors/rising talent, defensive end starters, defensive end contributors.
Read MoreBy David Sugarman (@David_Sugarman2)
As Indiana has geared up for its first full season under Tom Allen, there have been a number of coaching changes, but the core of the defensive staff has stayed intact. Back for his second year as the defensive line coach, Mark Hagen will look to continue the progress his group made in 2016.
Last season Indiana gave up 35 less yards per game on the ground than they did in 2015. The team’s crowning achievement may have been when they held likely the Big Ten’s and nation’s best running back in Penn State’s Saquon Barkley to 58 yards on 33 carries, less than two yards per touch.
Now headed into year two with Hagen, Indiana will look to replace Ralph Green III due to graduation and Nile Sykes, undisclosed season ending injury. Those two combined for nearly 50 tackles and six sacks in 2016. If Indiana wants to take another step in the right direction and achieve their goal of becoming a top 25 defense, it starts with the big boys in the trenches.
Read MoreWritten By Sammy Jacobs (@Hoosier_Huddle)
We are now a quarter of the way through Hoosier Huddle’s countdown to kickoff. We’ll offer a reset on the first 25 days at the end of this write-up, but today we take a look at another one of Indianapolis’s finest, defensive lineman LeShuan Minor.
Read MoreWritten by: TJ Inman (@TJHoosierHuddle)
The Indiana Hoosiers continued to beef up the defensive line with the addition of LeShaun Minor, yet another nearly 300-pound prospect that adds depth in the trenches. Minor is a three-star prospect from Indianapolis-area power Ben Davis High School. Indiana fans are hoping Minor’s addition is the beginning of a pipeline from Ben Davis to Bloomington as former Giants coach Tom Allen is now leading the Hoosiers.
Read MoreWritten By Alex Compton
The postseason is just 19 days away, but the coaching staff is still in midseason form. With Tom Allen now in control of Indiana Football, some of his top targets now come to Bloomington for official visits about two months away from signing day. After landing his first recruit as head coach in Australian punter Hayden Whitehead, Allen now shifts his attention to the impressive group of players visiting this weekend to round out the 2017 class. Big thanks to Matt Weaver at Peegs.com (Scout) for the list of visitors. Follow him on Twitter (@MB_Weaver) for all the latest IUFB recruiting information
Read MoreThe defensive front needs to be a priority in the 2017 class for the Indiana Hoosiers and they took a big step in solidifying that area of need as Ben Davis High School prospect LeShaun Minor committed to IU. Minor, a 6’3”, 255-pound 3-star prospect from new defensive coordinator Tom Allen’s former school, is rated by 247Sports as the ninth-best prospect in the state of Indiana. Minor chose IU over offers from Iowa State, Minnesota, Illinois and Cincinnati and he’ll line up on the defensive front for new position coach Mark Hagen.
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