Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman talks about roster limits
Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman talks about his frustration with a lack of clarity over roster limits for the 2025 season.
MANHATTAN — What should go down as a productive month of June for Kansas State football’s 2026 recruiting cycle will more likely be defined in the short term by the one that got away.
The Wildcats added 12 commitments for their 2026 class in June and now sit at 16 overall, but they whiffed on the biggest prize of all when Great Bend four-star tight end Ian Premer — the No. 1-ranked player in the state — chose Notre Dame over K-State and Kansas last week.
The good news for K-State is that if there is one position group that can absorb such a loss, it is tight end. The Wildcats return four tight ends that combined for 49 catches for 489 yards and led the nation with 13 touchdowns, and only one of them is a senior.
Throw in true freshman Linkon Cure of Goodland, the state’s top-ranked freshman from 2025, and the Wildcats are in decent shape for the near future.
But while losing Premer is disappointing, a greater concern is K-State’s lack of success overall in the state of Kansas. The Wildcats have excelled at keeping the state’s top prospects at home of late under seventh-year coach Chris Klieman, but that has not been the case in this cycle.
Of the top 15 Kansas prospects according to 247 Sports, the Wildcats landed only No. 8-ranked Lawson McGraw and No. 15 Lamarcus Barber. McGraw, a gifted athlete from Blue Valley West who could play either…
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Publish date : 2025-07-03 08:01:00
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