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Complete camp coverage: 2017 football primer

Allen Daniels is still trying to soak in his surroundings.

It all feels a bit surreal, the fact that he’s at a Power 5 program as he goes through his first training camp at Purdue. Maybe his teammates sense that too, because they’ve tried to boost the freshman’s confidence as much as possible in an effort to make him believe, you do belong.

That’s a work in progress.