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Looks like Jamal is starting to get the recognition he deserves! One of two defensive "stars" listed for the entire MAC: http://athlonsports.com/college-football/five-mac-football-players-know-2016 Found his highlight tape from this past season on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfphqwzoIt4

thanks, ME87...had not seen...release from go, zips http://www.gozips.com/sports/msoc/2016-17/releases/20160511fafgnh

The best Homegrowns MLS ever signed Written by Will Parchman ...Top 5 All Time... 4. Wil Trapp, Columbus Crew I’ll fight push-back on this pick, because I genuinely think Trapp is the best defensive midfielder the Homegrown initiative has ever produced. Trapp is not the Makelele Role midfielder who sits and destroys, which I think is primarily why he’s such an interesting case. In the U.S., we’re plenty used to that figure, but we’ve done a more incomplete job of pushing along Pirlo types who prefer to sit deeper and spread the ball. That’s where Michael Bradley used to be king, before Vanney and Klinsmann had him running all over creation. Thankfully, Gregg Berhalter has allowed Trapp – when he’s healthy – to sit deep and build. Thanks to Opta, we know definitively that Trapp is among the most efficient midfielders in the league. Thanks to our eyeballs, we know he’s one of the best, too. 3. DeAndre Yedlin, Seattle Sounders Yedlin’s struggles to find consistent playing time in England and his continual deployment as a right midfielder in Jurgen Klinsmann’s system has perhaps guided us to forget how good Yedlin can be when, 1.) he’s in a holistic system that’s engineered at least in part around his overlapping, 2.) he’s actually played at right back. The first is important because teams need to plan around Yedlin’s blinking defensive form. The second is important because he is, in fact, a right back. This is what Yedlin’s capable of when he’s hit his stride. That is Eden Hazard. Yedlin might already be robbed of his true fullbacking potential, because he can’t seem to find consistent minutes there since leaving Seattle after the 2014 season. But don’t let that cloud how good Yedlin’s been – and how good he could still be. ...

Stunning!