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Two of the UNT football team's best players of the past few seasons are going to get a chance to show what they can do for an NFL team. Defensive end Jeremiah Chapman will have a free agent tryout with the Minnesota Vikings in the next few days, while wide receiver Brandon Jackson has signed a free agent contract with the San Diego Chargers. Chapman was a rock on UNT's defensive front throughout his career with the Mean Green and led the team in tackles (78), tackles for loss (17) and sacks (five) as a senior. Jackson caught 79 passes for 784 yards as a senior and was the Mean Green's second-leading receiver in each of his last three seasons. On the basketball front, several blog readers pointed out that prep school point guard Cardell McFarland committed to Missouri State. I have said the last few days that UNT has one scholarship left to give and since former Davidson commit Alex Voyoukas had not heard from UNT and Caleb Patterson, who is transferring from Colorado, is not visiting Denton, threw out there that the Mean Green might be targeting Dallas Kimball guard Darian Thibodeaux. It now appears more likely that UNT will pocket that last scholarship and wait to see if it can land a Division I transfer who would sit out a season or save it for a player in the Class of 2009. That wouldn't be an entirely bad deal for the Mean Green, which has already addressed its needs by lining up a class that will include: JC All-American power forward Eric Tramiel, Arlington Grace Prep forward Ben Knox and Arkansas-Fort Smith point guard Dominique Johnson. |
