Baylor linebacker Colton Jumper is the latest Chattanooga-area football player to be invited to the U.S. Army’s national junior combine.
The combine, to be held Jan. 5-7 in San Antonio, Texas, in conjunction with the U.S. Army High School All-American game, brings 500 of the best 11th-grade players in the country together.
Also invited to the combine are two area quarterbacks: Signal Mountain’s Reese Phillips and Cleveland’s Austin Herink. Boyd-Buchanan lineman Malik Brewer is set for the Marine Corps Semper Fidelis combine Jan. 1-4 in Phoenix.
“I’m very excited. I’ve been working out at D1 [Sports] and I feel like I’m ready,” said the 6-foot-2, 212-pound Jumper.
His invitation makes it three straight years that Baylor has had a player invited to the combine. Linebacker David Helton, who started as a freshman at Duke this past season, went two years ago and Vanderbilt-committed offensive lineman Barrett Gouger attended the combine last year.