After pulling both George and Yanni Karlaftis out of West Lafayette High School the past few years, Purdue will again look to the Red Devil defense for a potential recruiting target, as defensive tackle Mariere Omonode has drawn meaningful Boilermaker interest to this point.

The 6-foot-1, 260-pounder made 67 tackles — 23 of them for loss, with 11 sacks — in eight games during his junior season, prior to a spring in which he's landed a slew of mid-major-type scholarship offers and fielded Power 5 interest.