How Kansas State football upgraded its 2024 roster through the transfer portal

MANHATTAN — For the most part, Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman and his staff have pivoted to assembling its 2025 recruiting class.

Before that, much of their energy was focused on bolstering the 2024 roster via the transfer portal, and for the most part they accomplished that goal at the positions of greatest need.

After the portal claimed 15 players between the end of last regular season and the end of spring practice, there were immediate holes to fill. Since then, the Wildcats have added 11 new players from Division I programs and headed into summer conditioning in much better shape.

“We’re just continuing to evaluate kids that are in the portal and maybe could help us,” Klieman said last month during a Catbacker Tour stop in Salina. “We already have a really solid roster. It’s not any position that I’d say we have to find right now, but we still have a couple of spots because of some attrition from December that if we find the right guy, we’ll take him.”

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Kansas State coach Chris Klieman and his staff have added much needed depth to the Wildcats’ 2024 roster through the transfer portal.

Since that time, the Wildcats added former Connecticut quarterback Ta’Quan Roberson as a graduate transfer, Rice cornerback Jordan Dunbar as a redshirt junior, and on Sunday Chattanooga graduate offensive lineman Colin Truett.

Assistant head coach Van Malone, who also is in charge of the Wildcats’ cornerbacks, is pleased with the staff’s work in the portal so far. Not that they see that as a cure-all at the expense of developing younger players within the program.

“I think that’s what is so cool about the portal is that you’re able to immediately address needs,” Malone said. “And yeah, we were able to do that.

“But I’m glad that…

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Author : The Topeka Capital-Journal

Publish date : 2024-06-14 08:01:15

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