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6 Days Until Kansas Football: 2019 Recruiting Class Update

The 2019 recruiting class has changed significantly and yet not much at all over the past three months.

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It’s been 92 days since we posted our first check-in on the 2019 Kansas football recruiting class. It’s a good news/bad news kind of deal. The good news is, the class has doubled in size over the past three months. The bad news is twofold: 1) The class went from one player to two players, and 2) the player they had three months has decommitted.

Here are the players KU currently has (non-binding) verbal commitments from:

2019 KU FB Commits

Name LOI Juco Pos Size 247 Rivals Hometown Other Offers
Name LOI Juco Pos Size 247 Rivals Hometown Other Offers
Cole Mueller RB 6'0" 192 lbs *** ** Wentzville, MO
Clay Cundiff TE 6'4" 230 lbs *** *** Wichita, KS Ill St, UNI, SDak, SDakSt

Here are KU’s decommits; so far, it’s just the one player:

2019 KU FB Decommits

Name LOI Juco Pos Size 247 Rivals Hometown Other Offers
Name LOI Juco Pos Size 247 Rivals Hometown Other Offers
Lance LegeGendre QB 6'2" 205 lbs **** **** New Orleans, LA LSU, Bama, FSU, UGA, Tenn, A&M

Obviously, David Beaty has a lot of work to do. Despite his claims to the contrary, it’s pretty obvious that Beaty’s perceived lack of job security has affected Kansas on the recruiting trail. The Jayhawks have the fewest number of verbals so far in the Big 12. K-State is close with six, but every other Big 12 team has 15 or more verbal commits for the 2019 class.

In fact, only four other P5 schools that have fewer than 10 commits at point: Maryland, UCLA, Utah, Washington State.

Per 247Sports, the following are players that have shown reciprocal interest in KU.

2019 KU FB Interest List

Name LOI Juco Pos Size 247 Rank Rivals Hometown Other Offers
Name LOI Juco Pos Size 247 Rank Rivals Hometown Other Offers
Noah Cain RB 5'10" 212 lbs **** **** Bradenton, FL Aub, LSU, OSU, OU, PSU, UT, 21 more
Titus Swen RB 5'10" 205 lbs *** **** Haslet, TX ASU, SMU
John Branham Jr RB 5'10" 218 lbs *** *** Columbus, OH Pitt, BC, Cinci, GT, UK, Tol, EMU
Elijah Higgins WR 6'3" 214 lbs **** **** Austin, TX UF, OSU, Stan, UT, 35 more
Cameron Coleman WR 5'10" 184 lbs **** **** St. Louis, MO Mizz, Neb, Syr, Tenn, 7 more
Tahj Washington WR 5'10" 170 lbs *** ** Marshall, TX ULL, Mem, USM, Tulane, Tulsa, AF
Ira Henry OL 6'5" 320 lbs *** *** St. Louis, MO Illini, Mizz, Ole Miss, 22 more
Marquise Simmons OL 6'4" 310 lbs *** *** St. Louis, MO ISU, Syr, UNM, Tex St
Derrick Hall DE 6'3" 216 lbs **** *** Gulfport, MS Aub, Miss St, FSU, 11 more
Wardalis Ducksworth X DE 6'3" 235 lbs *** Ellisville, MS Ole Miss
Peyton Powell ATH 6'2" 182 lbs **** *** Permian, TX OSU, OU, TCU, Ttech, 18 more
Keontae Burns ATH 6'3" 177 lbs *** *** Pittsburg, TX Ark, Bama, Bay, Minn, Neb, 14 more

Firing Beaty will be much easier despite the buyout if things don’t pick up on the recruiting trail - and pick up quickly.