Last Chance U: Top 5 stars from EMCC in Season 2
By Phil Poling
Ezekiel Rose, Defensive End | West Virginia University
Ezekiel Rose is a Clarksdale, Mississippi native, but wasn’t a big star in the hit series on Netflix. Regardless of camera time, Rose displayed a consistency on the football field that garnered attention from West Virginia University – a place that accepts JuCo transfers and molds them into stars: Bruce Irvin, Rasul Douglas, Justin Crawford to name a few.
Rose tallied 35 tackles and 6.5 sacks for EMCC in 2016, but strung together an impressive four-game streak where he sacked the quarterback in each contest. Rose joined a handful of other JuCo players in Morgantown in January.
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For the Mountaineers, Rose could see immediate time on the field this fall. Two defensive lineman graduated, leaving gaping holes up front. With his 6-foot-3 frame he could see time at any position along Tony Gibson‘s defensive line in Morgantown. In his debut to Mountaineer Nation in the spring game, Rose contributed three tackles.