Indiana TE Jordan Fuchs joining basketball team
Indiana's Jordan Fuchs is adding a second college sport to his resumé on Wednesday night.
Fuchs, a freshman tight end on the football team, is set to be on Indiana's basketball roster when Hoosiers play Maryland on Wednesday. He played both sports in high school and his high school basketball coach told the Indianapolis Star that Fuchs was the best forward he's ever coached.
"He was part of two city championship teams in one of the hardest leagues in America," Christ the King High School basketball coach Joe Arbitello told the Star. "He's probably the best forward I've ever coached.
"He's talented, man. I'm not gonna lie to you."
Last season Fuchs had three catches for 31 yards. He's listed at 6-6, 230.
If you're an NFL fan, you know that San Diego Chargers TE Antonio Gates and New Orleans Saints TE Jimmy Graham were college basketball players before their football careers took off. While Fuchs' college experience sports is experience differs from both of them, his original sport was basketball (Graham played a season of football after playing basketball at Miami while Gates didn't play football at Kent State).
Additionally, retired TE Tony Gonzalez double-dipped at Cal and so did Green Bay Packers DE Julius Peppers at North Carolina. More recently, South Carolina WR Bruce Ellington was also the Gamecocks' point guard.
According to the Star, Fuchs was initially recruited to play basketball in college. He started playing football as a way to increase his athleticism and then played a year at a prep school in the northeast before enrolling at Indiana.
"Jordan is someone we've been aware of for some time now and had he not gotten injured in the Purdue game and had to recover from that we would have brought over to evaluate earlier," Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean said. "We worked with him since last week and with Coach Wilson's blessing we are adding Jordan at this time. He has considerable basketball experience and brings size, athleticism, toughness and a tremendous competitive attitude."
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