'Different feeling' for Indiana football player returning home to Sunny Heights Elementary
Tyrone Burrus Jr. is working hard to make good on a bright future at IU. The Warren Central grad also took time to give back.
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana football edge rusher and Indianapolis native Tyrone Burrus Jr. , returned home to the east side Tuesday for a morning at Sunny Heights Elementary. Burrus started his day reading to a second-grade classroom, before he walked the halls and spent some time playing the noodles toss game and tug-of-war at the school's field day.
"It feels great. I've been around, went back to my old high school, stuff of that nature," Burrus said. He also made note of his impact on younger generations, "It's definitely a different feeling, when even younger people I haven't seen or spoke to knows my name and stuff like that.
So it's just been great, just giving out as much advice as I can. " A Warren Central graduate, Burrus was one of the premier defensive players in the state during his senior season. According to 247Sports , he was the No.
9 player in the state's class of 2025, regardless of position. Burrus originally committed to Jeff Brohm's Louisville Cardinals in June of 2024, before flipping his commitment to Indiana less than five months later. He instantly became the second-highest rated high school recruit of the cycle for Curt Cignetti's Hoosiers.