Kansas State is wasting no time building out its recruiting board, and Collin Klein’s latest move reached all the way into the 2030 class.
The Wildcats recently extended a scholarship offer to Noah Gigger, a wide receiver at CarrollWood Day School in Tampa. Gigger is already drawing attention well beyond Manhattan, with offers from Maryland, North Carolina and Syracuse. He has played varsity since he was 14, and Kansas State appears to be getting involved early with a player expected to develop into one of the country’s top prospects.
That offer fits the pattern of what Kansas State has been doing lately: casting a wide net and getting in early on younger talent. Jamison Mobley, an offensive/defensive lineman from Jenks High School in Oklahoma, is already in the class of 2029 and has five Division I offers despite being just 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds, with more growth still expected.
The Wildcats have also targeted Elijah Smith, a defensive back from Allen High School in Texas and a member of the 2028 class. Smith already holds offers from Baylor, Oklahoma State and Louisville.
At receiver, Kansas State has offered Mason Pearsall-Brown of Hough High School in North Carolina. He is a four-star recruit by 247 Sports, part of the 2029 class, and already has offers from Miami and Indiana.
The list keeps growing across the defensive front as well. Quinn Jacobs, a defensive lineman from Blessed Trinity Catholic High School in Georgia, is a three-star prospect by 247 Sports.
Dailon Denkins, a cornerback at Fort Bend High School in Texas, is a 6-foot-1, 185-pound four-star recruit. Julian Dwyer, a defensive end at Cincinnati Moeller High School, is a three-star recruit with offers from Boston College, Cincinnati, Georgia Tech, Illinois and Indiana, and 247 Sports lists him as the 16th-best player in Ohio.
Kansas State has also gone after size on the edge with Jekai Lee, a defensive end from Butler Community College. Lee stands 6-foot-6 and 280 pounds and has offers from Florida International, Georgia State, Southern Mississippi and UTSA.
The Wildcats’ tight end board has picked up too. Brady Reeves, a three-star prospect from Hill-Murray High School in Maplewood, Minnesota, is ranked just outside the top 20 at his position by 247Sports.
He also has offers from Vanderbilt, Iowa State and Miami (OH). Last season, Reeves caught 25 passes for 327 yards and nine touchdowns.
Kansas State offered another tight end Tuesday night in Sloan Blackwell, who attends Waco Midway High School in Waco, Texas. Blackwell also has offers from Arizona, Syracuse and Arizona State, and he posted 18 receptions for 254 yards and two touchdowns last season, according to MaxPreps.
The latest offensive lineman to land an offer from the Wildcats is Jerry Richmond of East St. Louis High School in East St.
Louis, Illinois. Richmond also has offers from Florida Atlantic, North Carolina and South Dakota.
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