15 ATH Maxx Crosby (Colleyville Heritage)

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Coach Creighton and his Eastern Michigan staff continued to bolster its 2015 recruiting class by adding three more verbal commits over the weekend.

Two of the three athletes play on the defensive side of the ball while all of the recruits are from out of state high schools.

Colleyville Heritage's Maxx Crosby announced he was verbally committing to EMU on Saturday. Crosby is Creighton's second recruit out of Texas.

Despite missing his team's first four games with an injury, Crosby had 40-plus tackles and a strip sack along with Second Team All-District honors.

The 6-foot-4, 240-pounder played middle linebacker as a junior, but is going to start at defensive end this season. Eastern Michigan had Crosby on the line during his camp visit, and is looking at him as either a defensive end or outside linebacker in its new 3-4 defense.

"I was a lot smaller last year, and slower," Crosby said. "We also have a new coaching staff at my high school, and when they came in we talked about my spot since they noticed I got a lot bigger, and was moving a lot better."

Crosby improved his 40-yard dash time from a 5.2 to a 4.8.

Maxx Crosby marks the second EMU recruit out of Texas this summer for coach Chris Creighton. Courtesy

Southern Methodist University, where Crosby's brother Miles is a redshirt freshman, and North Texas also recruited Maxx, but he said his decision wasn't all that difficult.

"I still could get offers from them, but I had a gut feeling about EMU," Crosby said. "They went out of their way to recruit me, and even visited one of my spring practices. I feel like there is already a connection there."

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