Given the rehab, this sounds like a good decision for both Tuftee and the program. It also frees up a spot if the staff is still working on someone.
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Almost five months after an ACL injury ended his senior football season, Ethan Tuftee still is recovering.
That didn’t prevent the Davenport Assumption offensive lineman from sealing his commitment to play for Iowa State on Wednesday.
The 6-foot-3, 285-pound Tuftee sent in his national letter of intent to the
Cyclones on Wednesday morning.
“It’s one more thing I don’t have to do,†he said.
What Tuftee does have on his agenda is plenty more physical therapy to rehabilitate his knee. He suffered the injury three games into the football season last September, and Tuftee has only recently begun jogging and jumping again.
“Every day is pretty much something new,†he said. “I wish I could just play right now.â€
He won’t play next fall, either, instead he’ll attend Scott Community College for a semester as an Iowa State grayshirt freshman.
Tuftee will join the
Cyclones for the spring semester.