After a quiet stretch on the recruiting trail for its 2025 class, the Kansas football team got back in action over the weekend by earning a commitment from Chris McCorkle.
McCorkle, a 6-foot-1, 170-pound cornerback from Sarasota, Florida, announced his decision on Saturday to join KU for the 2025 season.
He had previously been committed to Indiana between late April and mid-June; he has now pledged his future to the Jayhawks, after they had missed out on several cornerback targets earlier in the summer.
A three-star prospect, McCorkle attends Cardinal Mooney High School and had reported a wide-ranging list of scholarship offers that included schools like Florida, Florida State, Iowa, Michigan State (which he visited shortly before decommitting from the Hoosiers), UCF and West Virginia.
The Jayhawks have now added another future piece to go along with the large 2024 cornerback class that included early enrollee Jalen Todd and recently arrived Austin Alexander and Aundre Gibson. All will learn from offseason addition D.K. McDonald, the new co-defensive coordinator and cornerbacks coach.
“They told me I have impressive ball skills and I have a feel for the ball,” McCorkle recently told Jon Kirby of JayhawkSlant.com. “They said if I keep going with it and stick to it, I can take that far and translate it to Saturdays and Sundays.”
Cobee Bryant and Mello Dotson will exhaust their eligibility after the season, leaving onetime LSU transfer Damarius McGhee as the likely top cornerback entering 2025, with KU also having the opportunity next offseason to supplement the group in the portal (especially given that it has just one high school commitment to offset its two losses).
McCorkle is the 15th commitment in the 2025 class and the first since Tate Nagy on June 23. He is also the third overall from Florida after Joeseph Skipworth and Darrion Jones.
