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Get to Know Your Orange Man: #21 LB Lee Kpogba

Name: Lee Kpogba

Position: Linebacker

Year: Freshman

Height: 6’1”

Weight: 220

Hometown: Winston-Salem, NC

High School: Parkland

2018 stats: Arrived on campus in January

2019 projections: Kpogba wasn’t on the two-deep released this week but he’s in line to see immediate playing time this year.

How’d he get here?: He had numerous P5 offers including Florida State, Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee but after a verbal commitment to the West Virginia Mountaineers Lee chose to instead suit up for the Syracuse Orange

Money quote: After reopening his commitment Lee felt that his relationship with Syracuse coach Steve Stanard helped him decide to head to New York

“Coach Stanard had seen that (Kpogba decommitted) and texted me,” Kpogba said.