This article mentions that we only have four bigs and he is not included. http://www.thepostathens.com/article/2016/10/doug-taylor-...

He was sitting with the team at the BGSUCKS Fball game

I asked the writer, Luke O'Rourke, about this via twitter. I wondered what his thoughts were on Ellis since we haven't heard or read much about him.

He said he effectively viewed Ellis' skill set as being a flex player that could play the 3, 4, or 5. Said he see's his skill set and position being similar in ways to Kaminski, and that he feels he has a solid mid-range game. Also said minutes will be hard to come by even with an expanded rotation.

It's going to be very interesting to see how the rotation develops after Campbell, Simmons, Dartis, and Kaminski. There's a lot of talent and experience there, along with two exciting frosh in Carter and Culver.