25 DAYS TO KICKOFF: Dalton Schoen

In which BracketCat counts down the 25th day until kickoff with a profile of wide receiver Dalton Schoen.

Projection: Redshirt

Status: Preferred Walk-On

Dalton Schoen is a preferred walk-on wide receiver from Blue Valley High School Northwest who's likely to redshirt.

He played three sports in high school — baseball, basketball and football — while maintaining a 4.0 grade-point average throughout high school and was named The Kansas City Star's male Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

Schoen, who got his start as a kid by repairing lawn mowers, plans to major in mechanical engineering. He had numerous Division II and Division III scholarship offers, and even took a visit to Harvard, but elected instead…