'09 OH OL Chris Freeman (Official Offer)

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5/7

Alabama, Texas Tech and West Virginia have offered. Talks about his Florida Spring Game visit.

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5/15

Chris says he is excited to prove the hype is true. He will take more visits this summer then narrow his list for the fall and official visits.

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5/15

Chris says he is excited to prove the hype is true. He will take more visits this summer then narrow his list for the fall and official visits.

I wish he was excited enough to fax me a copy of this offer he supposedly got from PSU.

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5/28

By Kimbre...among west coast schools, Chris' coach says he is interested in Oregon, UCLA and USC. His coach talks about his unlimited potential and why he is such a great prospect.

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June 2, 2008
WVU on offensive lineman's list
By Mike Casazza
Daily Mail sportswriter

MORGANTOWN - There is something mysterious and borderline mythical about Chris Freeman, who quite suddenly has become one of the nation's most coveted offensive tackle prospects.

He has received no less than 20 scholarship offers, including one from West Virginia University he holds in high regard.

Jump on the Internet and search for facts about the mammoth lineman from Trotwood, Ohio, and it won't take long to learn there aren't too many tangible truths out there.

The list of colleges that reportedly have offered scholarships to the rising senior at Trotwood-Madison seems too good to be true, especially for a kid who doesn't have a traceable history in the sport.

His height ranges from 6 feet, 3 inches to a full six inches taller and his weight is listed anywhere from 290 pounds all the way to 350.

"There are a lot of articles I've read that say he's 6-7," said Freeman's father, Mike, who was a standout basketball player in Charleston in the early 1980s. "He was 6-6 in the eighth grade and he's grown since then."

Whether Chris would be a star never really was a concern. His mother, Mia, was a winner on the track at Charleston High.

Charleston Daily Mail - WVU Sports - WVU on offensive lineman's list?

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7/3

From CaneSport....Will be visiting Wisconsin, Illinois, Miami, Florida State, Florida & Tennessee. Does not have any leaders at this point, but plans on cutting his list to a top 5 by the start of his senior season.

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7/24

From TheWolverine...has a top 5 in his mind but won't say who it is. Plans to see Tennessee, Florida and Wisconsin before he finalizes his top 5. Says Michigan is one of his favorites and talks about his contact with Coach Rodriguez and the staff.

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8/10

From the Oklahoma site. Freeman says that he is still wide open. Darrell Scott and Doug Rippy have been recruiting him for Colorado, a shool he says he has serious interest in. He would like to make a tip to Norman to see the Sooners as well.

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Trotwood-Madison's Freeman a big surprise
By Mark Gokavi
Staff Writer
Friday, August 29, 2008

TROTWOOD ? Chris Freeman wasn't little even when he was little.

As a seventh-grader, he said he was 6-foot-5 and weighed 250 pounds. What he wasn't was a football player.

"I was just a basketball player," said Freeman, now a 6-9, 340-pound Trotwood-Madison senior left tackle. "My parents didn't want me to play football because they thought I'd get hurt."

Freeman and his parents, Michael and Tishia, did have a nerve-wracking medical scare this week. On Tuesday, Aug. 26, Freeman collapsed while at practice. He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, had his football helmet and pads cut away and was held overnight for tests.

Late Wednesday afternoon, Freeman was released and cleared to play in Trotwood's football game in Irving, Texas, on Saturday night.

The death of Trotwood freshman Lamar Davis while he played pick-up basketball on Oct. 6, 2007, was on Michael Freeman's mind. Davis had an enlarged heart, something doctors tested for with Freeman.

"That's the first thing I thought when I got the call at work," Michael said. "I couldn't help but think about Lamar Davis."

Freeman's father said doctors found out that Chris has asthma. That limited the amount of oxygen in his lungs and put pressure on one side of his heart. With some temporary breathing treatments and an inhaler, Freeman should be fine. His father said Chris had never passed out before.

"It (had been) tough, because of the unknown, just not knowing," Michael said. "I told him, if it comes down to it, it's just one game. ... That's my kid. I want to make sure he'll be able to lead a normal life."

"He's still the biggest unknown commodity in the state," recruiting analyst Duane Long said of Freeman. "He has physical tools that you can't coach.

"The offers are just on the physical tools he brings to the table. How hard (schools) push him to commit depends on how he does this fall."

Ohio State has not offered, probably preferring to see more video. Plus, Long said offensive linemen take a while to develop, and some schools may be concerned about someone who started so late.

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But with a current top five of Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia, Florida and Tennessee, Freeman is happy and bewildered about his recruitment.

"How?" he wondered. "I knew a lot of people said I'd get something off of my size. I guess a lot of coaches like my footwork and everything.

"It just shocked me. I guess it kind of came easy to me at first, but then it makes me want to start working harder and harder."

That includes in the classroom, where poor grades kept him ineligible last season. He now says school work is under control.

"I was just being a little bit childish in a couple classes," Freeman said. "Being a knucklehead."

Trotwood-Madison's Freeman a big surprise