The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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2015 RECRUITING ISSUE PERSONAL Jon Daniel Runyan Jr. was born Aug. 8, 1997, in Houston … Has been timed at 5.1 seconds in the 40-yard dash … Bench presses 310 pounds … Squats 480 pounds … Father, Jon, was an All- American offensive lineman at Michi- gan … Will be the first Wolverine from a Philadelphia high school since wide receiver Je'Ron Stokes (2009-10), and the second-ever from St. Joseph's Prep, after linebacker Victor Hobson (1998-02) … Teammate John Reid will play cornerback for Penn State. RANKINGS The consensus rating of the four ma- jor recruiting services: three-star pros- pect, the No. 21 player in Pennsylvania and the No. 86 offensive guard nation- ally … Listed as the No. 119 player in the Northeast by ESPN.com … Rated as the No. 2 offensive guard in Penn- sylvania and the No. 5 offensive guard in the East by Scout.com. STATISTICS Career Totals: Three-year varsity starter on the offensive line for a Phil- adelphia St. Joseph's Prep team that went 34-7 during his career … Won titles as a junior and senior … Added extra point duties to his arsenal as a senior, making 28 of 30 attempts. Senior Season: Started every game at left tackle for a Philadelphia St. Jo- seph's Prep team that went 11-3 and captured its second straight Pennsyl- vania Quad-A (largest division) state championship with a 49-41 victory over Gibsonia Pine-Richland … Also kicked extra points for the Hawks, making 28 of 30 attempts … SJ Prep played a national schedule, with a victory over Chicago Mt. Carmel, but losses to teams from New Jersey and Ohio … Offense averaged 201.5 rush- ing yards and 139.0 passing yards per game … Selected PAFootballNews. com first-team all-state Quad-A, and to the all-divisions Dream Team … Pennsylvania Football Writers Class AAAA first-team all-state … St. Jo- seph's Prep was listed No. 42 nation- ally in the final USA Today high school rankings. Junior Season: Started every game for a Philadelphia St. Joseph's Prep team that went 13-3, winning the Pennsylvania Quad-A state champi- onship with a 35-10 victory over Pitts- burgh Central Catholic … Offense av- eraged more than 200 yards per game both on the ground and through the air … Defeated Cocoa (Fla.) High School and Washington (D.C.) Gon- zaga in the season's first two games … Pennsylvania Football Writers Class AAAA first-team all-state. JON RUNYAN JR. OFFENSIVE LINEMAN 6-4 • 275 ST. JOSEPH'S PREP MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. RANKINGS STARS NAT. POS. STATE ✪ ✪ ✪ — 45 15 ✪ ✪ ✪ — 96 21 ✪ ✪ ✪ — 163 35 ✪ ✪ ✪ — 39 11