BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana football has to replace eight starters on defense heading into 2018.
And no particular unit is more profoundly affected than the linebackers. Both starters last fall, Chris Covington and All-American Tegray Scales, are currently in NFL camps.
That is why IU head coach Tom Allen was especially gratified to see a certain number pop up on his cell phone a month ago.
Dameon Willis Jr. was calling.
"I graduated May 5 and it was about a week after that," Willis recalled Tuesday about the call he placed to Allen.