'09 KS DB Rashawn Copeland

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I'll let you guys figure out what is going on with this one...

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Highland (KS) Highland C.C.

Height: 6-foot-2
Weight: 190 lbs
Forty: 4.41 secs
Bench max: 260 pounds
Squat max: 325 pounds
Vertical: 37 inches
Shuttle: 4.28 secs

Here's an article I found from last fall:

Rural grad switches to safety | Topeka Capital-Journal, The | Find Articles at BNET.com

By Tony Jimenez

SPECIAL TO THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL

It wasn't long into his job as the head coach at Fort Scott Community College that Rion Rhoades sized up Rashawn Copeland and came to the conclusion that the sophomore wide receiver needed to switch positions.

"We were five or six practices into spring ball and it looked like he wasn't natural at his position," Rhoades said.

"He ran good routes, but he he was in a slump catching the football."

So when this season opened, Copeland, a 6-foot-1, 180-pound Washburn Rural graduate, was honing his skills as a free safety.

Now he is trying to break up a crisp route rather than run it.

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FWIW, he isn't listed on either '07 roster (Fort Scott or Highland CC)...however I have seen come scuttlebutt that he is planning on enrolling at Illinois.

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he told an scout poster that he was enrolling in december...dunno if he plans on walking on or if there will be a schollie....first we gotta see if he gets in

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Told the UandUofI on scout that he will verbal as soon as he gets an offer...not sure if he's expecting one or hoping for one.