Ethan Cooper followed his family to college.
Now, he’s been welcomed to a new family in the NFL.
It’s a journey not many would’ve expected for Cooper coming out Central Dauphin East High School, ten miles outside of Harrisburg. Despite being big on talent, and the size to match, he didn’t qualify for Division One schools. It was IUP, and practically every school in the Division Two PSAC, who came knocking.
“A lot of Division Two schools started hitting me up,” Cooper told me earlier this week. “Both of my older brothers were actually students at IUP so I was already familiar with the school.