Relatively new on Virginia Tech’s offer list is 6-5, 275-pound Salem (Virginia Beach, VA) defensive lineman Chima Okoli . Okoli, a physical specimen who earned first-team all-Beach district and first-team all-Tidewater honors for his senior season performance, has some other options as well.

“Chima has a few offers,” Salem Head Coach Robert Jackson told TechSideline.com. “He just picked one up the other day from Michigan State. Virginia Tech has offered. Clemson has offered. Maryland has said it will offer, but nothing is in writing. Marshall has offered.”

Virginia Tech has offered, but only as a grey-shirt. This means Okoli would enroll at Virginia Tech in January of 2008.

“I think Tech is the only one with a grey-shirt,” Jackson said. “I think there is a good chance that could change due to the fact that Chima has standing offers from other 1A programs.”

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