Indiana Football: Hoosiers a dark-horse for this 2020 running back?

Indiana football is turning heads in the recruitment of 2020 running back Peny Boone after their recent visit with him.

Mike Hart, who has been instrumental in the recent success of Indiana football on the recruiting trail, may be doing it again.

Already the lead on Stevie Scott and Ronnie Walker in the 2018 class, he did it again for the 2019 class when he got Sampson James, a four-star back, to switch his commitment from Ohio State to the Hoosiers. Now he’s back at it with 2020 running back Peny Boone.

Boone, a borderline three-star/four-star running back, is the 371st ranked player in the entire 2020 class, and the 27th best back.

From Martin Luther King High School in Michigan, Boone had seemingly been all but a lock to Tennessee but there have been a lot of recent developments that may have him going elsewhere.

With distance away from home being a big concern in the recruitment, schools like Michigan and Michigan State have started to gain traction, but so has Indiana.

A recent visit from the Hoosiers has helped Indiana gain ground on some of the other schools who may have been at the top of his list.

Indiana is in a list of schools that have offered including Tennessee, Iowa, Nebraska, Purdue, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Michigan State and Michigan, amongst others.

Taking a step back in his decision process, the 6-foot-3 running back has a lot of options on the table, and with the recent success of Indiana, they may be the program to shake everything up.

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