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H I S T O R Y football hotbeds that had provided most of the Lions' players over the years. "We brought high school coaches in from all over to help us in the camps, in- cluding Virginia and later South Carolina and Florida," said Dick Anderson, then Penn State's o?ensive line coach. "So we made friends with those guys, and the connections helped us in recruiting. AAer the camps, you'd go into the area, talk to the coaches and get a good idea of what's there." Although Bartek and Campbell were pi- oneers in the in>ux of players emanating from the new approach, they were really outliers. Bartek initiated his own recruit- ment, and Campbell may have done so, too. "I didn't want to play in the South be- cause I didn't like the environment," Bartek recalled in a recent telephone con- versation. "I began looking up North and out West. Because of the quality of our team, we always had [college] coaches coming every day to our practice. I was interested in Penn State because of its reputation for academics as well as foot- ball, and they had a marine science minor that I was interested in. I talked with my high school coach, and he reached out to Penn State for me." The coach at Bethel High was Dennis Kozlowski, and Bartek was actually the second player he steered to Penn State. Two years before, Kozlowski had con- tacted the Lions' coaching sta? about a Thirteen Penn State players from Virginia have been draAed by NFL teams since the =rst one, All-America tailback D. J. Dozier in 1987, and a few have had some degree of success. Michael Robinson played the longest in the league, spending four seasons in San Francisco and four in Seattle, where he was a Pro Bowl selection in 2011. Robinson had been a quarterback at PSU, but he played fullback in the NFL and was also a special teams standout. Dozier (Minnesota, Detroit) is one of =ve players who were in the NFL =ve years or more. The others are defen- sive backs Darren Perry (Pittsburgh, New Orleans), David Macklin (Indi- anapolis, Arizona, Washington) and Bahwoh Jue (Green Bay, San Diego), linebacker Keith Goganious (Bu?alo, Jacksonville, Baltimore) and o?ensive tackle Levi Brown (Arizona, Pitts- burgh). Robinson is the only one of those players to win a Super Bowl, having played on the Seahawks team that defeated Denver, 43-8, in 2014. Three players were on teams that lost the Super Bowl: Goganious (Bu?alo, 1993 and '94), Perry (Pittsburgh, 1995) and Brown (Arizona, 2009). Listed below are the Penn State players from Virginia who have been draAed by NFL teams. –L.P. NAME HOMETOWN POS DRAFTED TEAM ROUND OVERALL PRO CAREER D.J. Dozier Virginia Beach RB 1987 Minnesota 1st 4th 1987-91 Gary Wilkerson Dinwiddie DB 1989 Cleveland 6th 160th 1990-95 (CFL) Keith Goganious Virginia Beach LB 1992 Bu?alo 3rd 83rd 1992-96 Darren Perry Chesapeake DB 1992 Pittsburgh 8th 203rd 1992-2000 Reggie Givens Su?olk LB 1993 Dallas 8th 213th 1998-2000 David Macklin Newport News DB 2000 Indianapolis 3rd 91st 2000-08 Bhawoh Jue Chantilly DB 2001 Green Bay 3rd 71st 2001-07 James Boyd Chesapeake DB 2001 Jacksonville 3rd 94th 2001-02 Michael Robinson Richmond QB/FB 2006 San Francisco 4th 100th 2006-13 Levi Brown Norfolk OT 2007 Arizona 1st 4th 2007-13 Deon Butler Woodbridge WR 2009 Seattle 3rd 91st 2009-12 Evan Royster Chantilly RB 2011 Washington 6th 177th 2011-13 DaeSean Hamilton Fredricksburg WR 2018 Denver 4th 113th 2018- P E N N S T A T E ' S V I R G I N I A D R A F T E E S Robinson headlines PSU's contingent of Virginia draftees

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