COLUMBUS, Ohio — Defensive lineman Walter Nolen of St. Benedict High School in Tennessee probably isn’t expecting to check his Twitter DMs and find a college coach hanging out there. Especially when that coach is north of 60 years old and quite frankly probably has better avenues of getting in touch with him. To be fair, Ohio State football’s defensive line coach Larry Johnson has been doing this at the college level since 1996 and is pretty good at recruiting. So when Johnson goes the route of social media to offer a kid a scholarship, it can probably catch someone off guard, even if it’s just as exciting. “I was just wondering what did he want,” Nolen told cleveland.com. “But I was excited. I’m not gonna lie.” Nolen fits the billing of the type of players Johnson has spent a career turning into elite pass rushers, and eventual NFL Draft…
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