LB Jonathan Walton a Southern sleeper 
August, 19, 2012
8/19/12
12:00
PM ET
By scottkendrick | ESPN.com
Jonathan Walton (Daphne, Ala./Bayside Academy) kneeled down and tied a torn T-shirt around his head. He needed to prepare for his backbreaking summer morning: maybe paint a fence, pour cement or mow a lawn.
The 6-foot-1, 236-pound linebacker took on a part-time landscaping job in June so he could raise enough money for a plane ticket to Happy Valley. So, every weekday for three weeks, he woke up, tied that shirt around his perspiring head and went to work. Then he trained.
"I didn't mind it," said the unranked prospect, who reeled in a Penn State offer shortly before taking that job. "I wanted to get used to the heat for football anyway."
The 6-foot-1, 236-pound linebacker took on a part-time landscaping job in June so he could raise enough money for a plane ticket to Happy Valley. So, every weekday for three weeks, he woke up, tied that shirt around his perspiring head and went to work. Then he trained.
"I didn't mind it," said the unranked prospect, who reeled in a Penn State offer shortly before taking that job. "I wanted to get used to the heat for football anyway."
To continue reading this article you must be an Insider
ABOUT NITTANY NATION
Josh Moyer
Josh Moyer joined ESPN.com in 2012 after covering Penn State football for recruiting website Nittany Network and City Hall for The Citizens' Voice in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Moyer graduated from Penn State and earned his graduate degree at Columbia. Email him at espnjoshmoyer@gmail.com.