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Ohio safety makes verbal pledge to Cyclones on bye week

Iowa State didn’t play a game on Saturday but the Cyclones did score a significant win on the recruiting trail.

Malik Verdon, a 6-foot-3 athlete out of Ohio, chose Iowa State over the likes of Iowa, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Pitt, Vanderbilt, West Virginia and a handful of Group of 5 teams.

Verdon, who hails from Hamilton, Ohio, projects to be a safety at the next level.

Verdon previously committed to Miami (Ohio) and reopened his recruiting process last week.

247Sports ranks Verdon as the 48th best prospect in the state of Ohio’s class of 2021. He is a three-star prospect according to the recruiting service.

Iowa State currently has 20 known commitments in the class of 2021.

Chris Williams

Chris was hired as Cyclone Fanatic’s publisher in the fall of 2009. He is Iowa State football's postgame show host on the Cyclone Radio Network and can be heard daily from 4-7 on Des Moines' top-rated sports station, 1460 KXnO. Williams, a 2007 graduate of Iowa State’s Greenlee School of Journalism, is the former publisher of the old CycloneNation.com (Scout.com). He has also written for the Des Moines Register, the Ames Tribune, CycloneReport.com and is the former sports director at KMA Radio. When Williams isn’t working, you can usually find him doing something outdoors with his wife Ashley, daughter Camryn, and Golden Retriever Dierks. He enjoys golfing, boating, country music, the Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Braves and is passionate about any and all motor sports so finding Williams at a local dirt track is very common.

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