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Meet Rutgers LB CJ Onyechi, 'a jack of all trades' who can't be defined by a uniform number

While some New Jersey public high school football programs are known to churn out a few FBS prospects every year, West Orange isn't the type to draw much of out-of-state recruiting attention.

That's how an in-state school like Rutgers gets an advantage with a prospect like CJ Onyechi.

Onyechi played at a NJISAA Group IV school that went 6-4 and made the state playoffs, but he played the game like it is played at Group I schools, where the best athletes where never leave the field.

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Oneychi committed to Rutgers on June 15, 2016, over offers from all three FBS service academies -- Army, Navy and Air Force -- as well as Temple and Buffalo.