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Kansas State new head football coach Collin Klein smiles as he makes remarks at his introduction ceremony at Morgan Family Arena on Dec. 5, 2025. | Evert Nelson/The Capital-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
Cooper Ohnmacht a composite 4* recruit out of Great Bend, Kansas, and Great Bend High School, committed to Kansas State’s 2027 recruiting class on June 7th.
Ohnmacht, listed at 6’0″, 185 pounds, is currently ranked as the 303rd best player in the 2027 class, the 11th best athlete, and the best high school player in the state of Kansas.
Cooper chose Kansas State over multiple high level offers Penn State, Vanderbilt, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Kansas also offered.
Bio
Position: Athlete
Height: 6’0″
Weight: 185
Hometown: Great Bend, Kansas
High School: Great Bend High School
Recruiting Class: 2027
Recruiting Industry Consensus: Rating: 4*(89.9) – National Rank: 303 – Position Rank: 11
High School
- Junior Stats
- Offense – Wide Receiver
- Receptions – 52
- Receiving Yards – 755
- Receiving Touchdowns – 8
- Defense – Safety
- Tackles – 56
- Interceptions – 5
- Interception Returned for Touchdowns – 2
- Special Teams
- 1 kick return touchdown
- 1 punt return toucdown
- Awards
- 1st Team All State
- 1st Team All WAC (defense)
- 1st Teams All WAC (offense)
- Big Classes Defensive Player of the Year
- Great Bend Offensive Player of the Year
High School Highlights
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This isn’t brain surgery. Ohnmacht is the best player in Kansas for the 2027 class, and K-State should always try to bring in elite in-state talent. He’s a versatile, explosive athlete who does it all for Great Bend on the gridiron. That’s the type of player Coach Klein covets. He’s obviously an elite athlete (he also stars on the Great Bend basketball and track team), but beyond that, the dude is solid, versatile football player.
You can tell that he sees the field and has an innate feel for angles. He outruns angles on offense and uses them to track down opponents on defense. When he has the ball in his hands on kick returns, all he needs is a small crease to take it to the house. Great Bend’s opposition has to game plan against him in every phase of the game.
It sounds like he’ll spend his first season in Manhattan on defense, and that’s where I think he’ll stick. I want him in the defensive backfield, reading the quarterback and looking to force a turnover into a pick-6. I think he would be a solid wide out, but he has NFL potential as play making defense back.
With the new redshirt rule coming into effect, I would not be surprised if he made an immediate impact on special teams while he perfects his technique as a defensive back.
Landing Cooper was a huge flex from Coach Klein and staff. This is the type of recruiting that moves the needle both in the Big 12 and on the national stage.
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