Donovan Peoples-Jones will Announce this Thursday Night on ESPN

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Ed-Ace: TomVH tweeted out a correction. The announcement will be on ESPN, not ESPNU, on Thursday at 8:30 pm ET.
 
 

MI's top prospect, @dpeoplesjones will announce his college decision Thursday night on @ESPNU from our studio. #Michigan #MSU in final 5

http://michigan.247sports.com/Article/Commitment-date-set-for-Donovan-Peoples-Jones-49744919

"At this point I'd be surprised if Peoples-Jones ended up anywhere but Ann Arbor."

"Heading into his junior season Peoples-Jones erupted as a national recruit after winning The Opening Finals Nike Football Rating championship competing alongside many of the nation's top prospects who were a year older. He ran a 4.42 laser-time 40-yard dash with a 42-inch vertical leap."

http://247sports.com/Player/Donovan-Peoples-Jones-37087

# 11 Overall (247 Composite Rankings)
# 1 WR

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December 12th, 2016 at 11:51 AM ^

FWIW, 24/7 shows 93% of the CBs going to M with none for either OSU or FSU. Their prediction graph thingee shows M with an 80% chance, OSU with about a 15% chance and everybody else <5%.

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JachZackson04

December 12th, 2016 at 11:55 AM ^

He is almost surely going blue (or has already silently committed). If you guys believe "insiders" that say he eliminated Michigan then you're way more gullible than I thought. Every single player in the state of Michigan in the top 7 is going to go to Michigan (Save Antuan Simmons). The opportunity to play with all your friends will be too hard to pass up. This is like the Rashan Gary recruitment, everyone knows where he's going so just chill. The kid is just doing what he should, take all 5 visits and enjoy the process. Don't get too butthurt over the decision of an 18 year old.... but I still think he's blue all the way.

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1201 S. Main St.

December 12th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^

Took a quick look at the OSU blogs, and even if they are the ones that created the rumor, a vast majority of the comments seem to think he's still a Michigan lock.  So...that's not a bad sign.

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1201 S. Main St.

December 12th, 2016 at 12:43 PM ^

Took a quick look at the OSU blogs, and even if they are the ones that created the rumor, a vast majority of the comments seem to think he's still a Michigan lock.  So...that's not a bad sign.

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Don

December 12th, 2016 at 12:52 PM ^

Highly-rated recruit who has a sincere interest in attending medical school, and everybody assumes it's a no-brainer of Michigan over Florida State. Hello, Tallahassee.

I don't think that's going to happen this time, though. Our closest competitor is OSU.

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gopoohgo

December 12th, 2016 at 1:04 PM ^

I really don't know why ANY highly rated football recruit would have the goal of medical school as being a primary determining factor into what school to play football at.   

There are a lot of variables (injury, development, offensive scheme, etc. etc. etc.), but a third round NFL pick last year had a $3.1 million, four year contract with almost $700K in guaranteed money.  

The median income for an orthopaedic surgeon is $500K, but that is AFTER your first three years of practice.  (So 4 years of medical school, 5 years of residency, most likely at least one year of fellowship).  So if you get into med school straight out of undergrad and don't burn out, and the medical system stays the same, you will be in your mid 30s by the time you make $500K.

And there are significant cost-pressures being applied to that specialty (too long to get into, but decreased reimbursement of most commonly used CPTs, bundling of CPTs, reimbursement on implanted devices, more stringent rules on anicllaries, etc etc etc etc etc).  

If DPJ were my cousin, I would tell him to go where he feels comfortable, and where he has the best chance of getting to the NFL.  He can always return to school.

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