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Linebacker Mark Gooden commits to Northwestern

Northwestern has added another member to its 2016 recruiting class in linebacker Mark Gooden from Reynoldsburg High School (Reynoldsburg, Ohio). Gooden himself took to Twitter to announce the news.

— Mark Gooden (@Next_up_89) July 8, 2015

Gooden stands 6'1" and weighs in at 221 pounds. He is officially listed as a weak-side linebacker and defensive end by 247 sports, who rated him with a .8033 composite score

His offer list was impressive. Northwestern beat out several other Power 5 schools, including Iowa, Boston College, Indiana, Purdue, Vanderbilt and Wake Forest. He had also received interest from Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State and West Virginia.