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This Oklahoma cornerback is Kansas State’s first incoming football transfer for 2025

The Kansas State Wildcats football helmet.
The Kansas State Wildcats football helmet.

Chris Klieman and the Kansas State football team are on the board.

The Wildcats have landed their first incoming transfer ahead of the 2025 season after losing more than a dozen players to the transfer portal since the regular season came to an end.

Jordan Rowe, a 6-foot-2 and 221-pound defensive back, committed to K-State this week after spending the past three seasons with the Oklahoma Sooners.

K-State recruited Rowe when he was a four-star football prospect and a talented sprinter coming out of Tulsa. Back then he chose Oklahoma over Arkansas, Baylor, Iowa State, K-State, Oklahoma State and others. The Wildcats are hoping that he can reach his full potential in Manhattan.

That is something he was unable to do at Oklahoma, as he played only sparingly during his time in Norman.

Rowe saw action in three games as a freshman on both defense and special teams. But he didn’t record a single stat in 2023 or 2024 as he missed the vast majority of Oklahoma’s games because of injuries.

He will get a fresh start at K-State.

The Wildcats will give him a shot to help replace departing corner backs Keenan Garber and Jacob Parrish.

Klieman is hoping to add more incoming transfers in the near future. K-State has extended scholarship offers and lined up recruiting visits with several transfers over the past week

This story was originally published December 13, 2024 at 10:17 AM with the headline "This Oklahoma cornerback is Kansas State’s first incoming football transfer for 2025."

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Kellis Robinett
The Wichita Eagle
Kellis Robinett covers Kansas State athletics for The Wichita Eagle and The Kansas City Star. A winner of more than a dozen national writing awards, he lives in Manhattan with his wife and four children.
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