With new defensive coordinator Charlton Warren in charge, the Hoosiers are doing something different this year. After each practice, they’re tallying the havoc plays — the tackles for loss, forced fumbles, sacks, pass breakups, picks, etc. — and spotlighting a daily leader.
Across two of the first four practices, the havoc leader was a defensive lineman. Both times, it was C.J. Person.
Entering his third year with the program, Person is being counted on to help fill the void left at three-technique by the departures of Jerome Johnson and Jovan Swann. Person, IU’s Defensive Newcomer of the Year in 2020, demonstrated in bursts last fall that he has the potential to be a difference maker up front.