Julian Rose is certainly one of the most unique players in the DSFL, he colors his hair, is eccentric on the field and has a weird style of playing football that can only be described as “Receiver Back”. However none of this is possible without the Purdue Boilermakers football program. Firstly Julian is was a big fish in a small pond. San Juan isn’t exactly known for its football players as American football is the less popular football in Puerto Rico. Most of the big powerhouse schools in the US were chasing the best of the best from the mainland United States. Purdue certainly had talented players but they were not nearly on par with the best schools in the nation and because of the wide open opportunity Julian was able to do a bunch of different things for the Boilermakers allowing him to show his full talent at Running Back and Wide Receiver. At a big name school like Georgia or Alabama he most likely would’ve been buried in the depth chart as a gadget player thus limiting his ability to display his talent which may have effected his stock that DSFL teams would see.
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