Iowa State linebacker Jordan Harris will open camp the starter at middle linebacker. File Photo by Nirmalendu Majumdar/Ames Tribune
Iowa State weak-side linebacker Levi Peters, center, missed most of last season due to injury. He starts the season atop the weak-side linebacker depth chart. Ames Tribune file photo
Jordan Harris arrived with designs of being the next star Iowa State middle linebacker in the winter of 2014.
But instead of roaming sideline-to-sideline making plays like former Cyclones A.J. Klein or Jeremiah George, he spent it redshirting.
“It was tough on me, but I knew the coaches had a plan for me,” said Harris this past April.