BUTLER TWP — Jake Kradel knows where he will be playing his college football.

He just doesn’t know what position.

The Butler junior verbally committed to the University of Pittsburgh on Tuesday, the 6-foot-4, 285-pound Golden Tornado lineman ending a long recruiting odyssey.

“He wound up with 25 offers from major schools,” Butler coach Rob Densmore said. “This was all about Jake. He earned this for himself. It was all him.”

The Panthers like Kradel as a center or guard on offense, and as a tackle on defense.

“I think they’re going to try me on defense first,” Kradel said. “It’s easier to move from defense over to offense than the other way around.

“I’ll play wherever I can help the team, whatever gets me on the field first. I just want to play football.”

Densmore said Kradel “doesn’t have the length college teams like” to play offensive tackle.

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