Dorris planning Purdue visit

After competing against the best at the Under Armour Junior Combine in Florida earlier this month, Shadyside (Ohio) 2015 tight end Austin Dorris is set to make college visits, and his first stop will be to a Big Ten school.

"I am going to Purdue Feb. 1," Dorris reported. "I have talked with [assistant coach Marcus Freeman], but when they invited me to come up to that junior day, it was just through a letter. There's a kid that went to [a nearby school], Dan Monteroso, who is at Purdue. I am going to get ahold of him and talk to him about it."

The 6-foot-5, 220-pound Dorris holds a pair of Mid-American Conference offers from Ohio and Toledo. He has several more schools showing interest.

"I have been to games at WVU and talked to their coaches a bunch," Dorris said. "I went down to a camp over the summer. You don't really hear that much about tight ends at West Virginia because they don't really use that many, but I was talking to Coach Slaughter and the head coach and they said they are going to start using tight ends.

"When I went down to see them play Texas A&M I got to talk to them face-to-face and they said they loved what they saw out of my film and they'd be in touch."

Ohio State has also been in touch with Dorris. His latest offer, from Toledo, came through just last week.

"They said that they recently got to watch film on the best players in the class of 2015 from Ohio and Michigan and even though I do play quarterback, that actually helps with them because they know that is where the best athletes play," Dorris said. "They liked what they saw and feel they can use me a bunch of different ways up there."

Dorris did play quarterback for his school as a junior, but is projected as a tight end in college and was able to use the Under Armour Combine as a chance to test himself against some of the best tight ends in the country.

"I had a good time down there… it was a lot warmer than it was in Ohio," Dorris said. "I competed with all the other tight ends who have all the big offers. Of course everybody had a couple drops that they should have caught, but not everyone was at the top of their game. I felt I held my own in the one-on-ones and 7-on-7s."