The Kansas football team continues to strengthen its future in the trenches.
Richie Dexter, a 6-foot-7, 303-pound offensive tackle from Chandler, Arizona, announced his commitment to KU on Tuesday night in a post on social media.
“I chose to commit to Kansas because of the great fans they have and the amazing coaching staff that I will have behind me,” Dexter told Jon Kirby of JayhawkSlant.com.
Dexter attends Hamilton High School. He had additional offers from Arizona, Baylor, Colorado, Oklahoma State and SMU, among others — and had recently visited one of those others, UConn, with a trip to OSU on the schedule.
“When I first got offered by Coach (Daryl Agpalsa), I could already feel a connection,” Dexter told Kirby. “The conversations would flow easily and watching him at practice I could tell he really cares about his players.”
He now becomes the third pledge for the Jayhawks along the offensive line in the class of 2027 after Derek Gonzalez (from Nogales High School in La Puente, California) and Nick Vecrumba (from Brownsburg High School in Indiana).
They will provide an infusion of youth for the Jayhawks in 2027, given that KU only has one scholarship offensive lineman set to exhaust his eligibility after the 2026 campaign, that being reserve guard James Livingston.
KU is now up to nine total commitments in its recruiting class as it enters prime official visit season in the month of June.
“June used to be a really good month to be a college football coach,” general manager Rob Ianello said at an event in Topeka on Monday. “Not so much, right? We did it to ourselves, but between official visits and high school camps and all those kinds of things, June’s about as busy a month as we have right now.”
