Coveted football recruit Julian Elzey picks Kansas State over six SEC schools
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- Julian Elzey, three-star safety from Snellville, Georgia, commits to K-State for 2027.
- Elzey chose K‑State over several big offers, including six SEC schools, Indiana, Miami.
- K‑State adds Elzey to a 2027 class that already included three commits.
Kansas State defeated notable competition to land its latest football pledge.
Julian Elzey, a 6-foot-1 and 190-pound defensive back from Brookwood High School in Georgia, has announced his plans to play for Collin Klein and the Wildcats next season. He chose K-State over more than a dozen other scholarship offers, including six SEC schools plus Indiana and Miami.
His reported offer list is long and impressive. It includes the following schools: Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Indiana, Wisconsin, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Wake Forest, UCF and Miami.
Elzey was expected to visit several of those schools and then announce a college destination in the summer. But he sped up his timeline after he made an unofficial campus visit to Manhattan.
Elzey is a three-star recruit from Snellville, Georgia. His main position is safety.
He will be expected to help the K-State secondary as a member of the 2027 recruiting class.
K-State has four commitments lined up in that cycle. Elzey joins defensive lineman Dawayne Jones, cornerback Nazier Pitchford and offensive lineman Canaan Smith.