Dasan McCullough, Oklahoma Football News: Draft Scout Player News

08/16/22 - OLB Dasan McCullough, Jr/2026, Oklahoma

He's the highest ranked recruit in program history, and Dasan McCullough might be ready to make a splash in year one. At the very least, McCullough made an impression on the Big Ten Network crew that was in Bloomington on Friday for the team's first scrimmage. The son of former running backs coach Deland McCullough, it wasn't clear where on the field Indiana would try to plug in the Bloomington High School South product. He was originally thought of as a safety, but after he grew to 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds, McCullough could be either a linebacker or a stand-up defensive end in college. Based on what the BTN crew saw on Friday, it sounds like McCullough could be training at least in part for the latter, and a position the IU program calls the "bull" in head coach Tom Allen's 4-2-5 scheme. "There was a player on the defensive line, McCullough, that really caught our eye," BTN's Joshua Perry said.

Indiana struggled to get pressure on the quarterback last year, and McCullough gave the impression on Friday that he may be someone who can change that in 2022. BTN's Howard Griffith broke into the smile of someone who had just witnessed a special player on the football field. "What jumps out immediately is the body type. He's long, can really rush the passer," Griffith said of McCullough. "He's gonna spend some more time in the weight room because he's young. But I think he's going to develop, and when you talk about him being an elite pass rusher, I think he has that skill set in him. He's gonna be one of those guys that they might not have thought was going to be a huge contributor on the defensive line, but it looks like he's going to be a big part of the packages that they run." - The Daily Hoosier

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