The Cyclones picked up a commitment from safety Craig McDonald (Minneapolis, Minn.) after a Junior Day visit, earlier this month on the 9th. Iowa State had offered him on April 25th last year and he visited for the Oklahoma game. McDonald is rated as the No. 44 safety and No. 692 overall and is the fourth commit for 2020. He will be an early enrollee for a class currently rated 26th by 247Sports Composite.
BASKETBALL LATEST:
*** Steve Prohm visited 2019 combo guard target Clarence Nadolny (Long Island, N.Y./Paris, France) at the end of February. Nadolny has had contact with the Iowa State for awhile and was recently offered on February 11th. He also holds offers from Georgetown, TCU and West Virginia.
*** Class of 2019 power forward signee Luke Anderson (Lakeland, Fla.) was in Ames for the Texas Tech game.
*** The 247Sports profile of power forward Ben Carlson (St. Paul, Minn.) profile now shows “Warm” to Iowa State, Iowa, Minnesota, Purdue, Stanford, and Xavier. Carlson is the son of former ISU men’s basketball forward Marc Carlson and is rated as the No. 10 PF in the class of 2020.
FOOTBALL LATEST:
*** Outside linebacker Hunter Zenzen (Barnesville, Minn.) made his way to Ames on March 3rd. ISU became his first and only P5 offer on January 29th. He has FCS offers from North Dakota, North Dakota State, and South Dakota.
*** Iowa State hosted six 2020 targets with offers for Junior Day on March 9th. Those targets are offensive guard Hadley Panzer (Lakin, Kan.), defensive end Johnny Wilson (Kansas City, Mo.), and receivers Lawaun Powell (E. St. Louis, Ill.), Blake Nowell (Ardmore, Okla.), Marcus Rogers (Iowa Western CC/Smyrna, Ga.) and Xavier Watts (Omaha, Neb.).
*** Three in-state prospects with offers in the class of 2021 were also in town for Junior Day. Defensive tackle Griffin Liddle (Bettendorf) has held an ISU offer since March 1st of last year, with other offers from Iowa, Michigan State and Nebraska. Wide receiver Brody Brecht (Ankeny) picked up his first and only P5 offer from ISU on February 25th. Linebacker Seth Malcolm (Tabor) was offered during the visit.
*** New high interest targets according to their 247Sports profile include offensive guard Marcus Harper II (Chicago, Ill.), tight end Sam Daugstrup (Cleveland, Ohio), safeties Rickey Hyatt Jr. (Westerville, Ohio) and Todd Bumphis (Toledo, Ohio), and 2021 defensive tackle Solomon Wright (Vian, Okla.).
SUMMARY:
Basketball High Interest:
PF Ben Carlson
Football High Interest:
OG Marcus Harper II
TE Sam Daugstrup
S Rickey Hyatt Jr.
S Todd Bumphis
2021 DT Solomon Wright
Football Visitors (Offer):
OG Hadley Panzer (Lakin, Kan.)
WR Lawaun Powell (E. St. Louis, Ill.)
WR Blake Nowell (Ardmore, Okla.)
WR Marcus Rogers (Iowa Western CC/Smyrna, Ga.)
WR Xavier Watts (Omaha, Neb.)
SDE Johnny Wilson (Kansas City, Mo.)
2021 WR Brody Brecht (Ankeny, Iowa)
2021 ILB Seth Malcolm (Tabor, Iowa)
2021 DT Griffin Liddle (Bettendorf, Iowa)
Football Visitors (No Offer):
OG Cameron Jackson (Milwaukee, Wisc.)
OG Anthony Vacula (Milwaukee, Wisc.)
OT Jake Seidel (Imperial, Mo.)
OT Jackson Stoefen (Eldridge, Iowa)
OT Talor Warner (Gardner, Kan.)
PQB Jaylen DeVries (Clear Lake, Iowa)
QB Hayes Gibson (Ankeny, Iowa)
TE Sloan Hayden (Eudora, Kan.)
SDE Mason Richman (Stilwell, Kan.)
SDE Lukas Van Ness (Barrington, Ill.)
OLB Cade Winkel (Algona, Iowa)
OLB Xander Mueller (Wheaton, Ill.)
S Tyson Gordon (Omaha, Neb.)
ATH Nate Valcarcel (Milwaukee, Wisc.)
2021 QB Zach Yeager (Minneapolis, Minn.)
2021 RB Terrance Kamara (Champlin, Minn.)
2021 DT Carson Petlon (Manchester, Iowa)
2021 OLB Reid Carrico (Ironton, Ohio)
2020 OLB Jaden Harrell (Urbandale, Iowa)
2021 CB Keuan Parker (Tulsa, Okla.)
Football Offers:
OG Hadley Panzer (Lakin, Kan.)
OT Alex Conn (Derby, Kan.)
RB Isaiah Jacobs (Owasso, Okla.)
TE Sam Daugstrup (Cleveland, Ohio)
TE Joe Royer (Cincinnati, Ohio)
WR T.J. Tampa (St. Petersburg, Fla.)
WR Ajou Ajou (Clearwater, Fla.)
WR Devell Washington (Bay City, Mich.)
SDE Ali Gaye (Garden City CC/Edmonds, Wash.)
DT Perrion Winfrey (JC) (Iowa Western CC/Roselle, Ill.)
OLB Ar’Quel Smith (Naples, Fla.)
CB Tyson McWilliams (San Diego, Calif.)
CB Art Green (Hutchinson CC/Chesterfield, Mo.)
S Todd Bumphis (Toledo, Ohio)
2021 ILB Seth Malcolm (Tabor, Iowa)
2022 CB Toriano Pride Jr. (St. Louis, Mo.)
Football Heating (Warmer on 247):
OT Terah Edwards: Michigan State
RB Jayion McCluster: Florida State
TE Tommy Guajardo: Michigan State
Basketball Warming (Warm on 247):
2019 CG Harlond Beverly: Baylor, Michigan State, Indiana
PG Desmond Polk: Iowa
PG Tyler Beard: Purdue
PF Dawson Garcia: Baylor, Marquette
C N’Faly Dante: Oregon
Football Warming:
OG Drake Metcalf: Stanford
OG Marcus Harper II: Illinois, Nebraska
OT Terah Edwards: Northwestern
OT Josh Fryar: Indiana, Ohio State, Purdue
OT Kevin Tyler: Illinois
OT John Young: Louisville
RB De’Andre Bulley: Boston College
RB Reggie Love: Illinois
RB Peny Boone: Kentucky, Michigan, Purdue, Tennessee
RB Jayion McCluster: Auburn, Florida
RB Lawrence Toafili: Michigan
RB Sevion Morrison: Arkansas
TE Tommy Guajardo: Indiana
TE Luke Lachey: Michigan State
WR Daniel Jackson: Kansas, Wisconsin
WR Tommy Christakos: Nebraska
WR Brenden Rice: UCLA
SDE Kevo Wesley: Illinois
SDE Joe Moore III: Iowa
ILB Bryce Austin: Michigan, Purdue
OLB Jamari “Jay” Stewart: Miami, North Carolina State, South Carolina
CB Dontae Manning: Michigan, Notre Dame, Oklahoma
CB Myles Slusher: Texas A&M
CB Kendall Dennis: Florida State
S Rickey Hyatt Jr.: Kentucky, Michigan State, Pittsburgh, West Virginia
ATH Cameron Martinez: Northwestern, Ohio State
2021 PQB JJ McCarthy: Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, Wisconsin
2021 SDE JC Latham: Michigan, Oklahoma, Wisconsin
2021 DT Solomon Wright: Oklahoma State
Basketball Cooling (No Longer Warm):
PG Jalen Suggs: Gonzaga
C N’Faly Dante: Ole Miss
Football Cooling:
OT Josh Fryar: Florida State
RB Jayion McCluster: LSU, Oregon
WR Daniel Jackson: Notre Dame
OLB Jaheim Thomas: Notre Dame
Non-ISU Basketball Commitments:
2019 C Jimmy Bell Jr.: St. Louis
Non-ISU Football Commitments:
OG Josh Volk: Iowa
OT Drake Heismeyer: Missouri
TE Tommy Guajardo: Michigan State
WR Kaevion Mack: Northern Illinois
WDE Matthew Johnson: Northern Illinois
OLB Brynden Walker: Oklahoma State
2021 OLB Dink Jackson: Florida
ISU Football Eliminated:
OT Trey Zimmerman
OT John Young
TE Jonathan Odom
