{"id":269805,"date":"2026-06-17T17:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269805\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T17:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T17:45:07","slug":"louisville-wr-commit-brooklyn-maxey-flipped-to-kansas-state-after-official-visit-to-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269805\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisville WR commit Brooklyn Maxey flipped to Kansas State after official visit to Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn Maxey<\/a> committed to Louisville<\/a> before he truly got to know Kansas State<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once he did, everything changed.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-2, 205-pound wide receiver from Tampa (Fla.) Carrollwood Day<\/a> has flipped his commitment to Kansas State following his official visit to Manhattan, ending a recruitment that steadily shifted in the Wildcats\u2019 favor over the past few months.<\/p>\n

Maxey was already silently committed to Louisville when he first visited Kansas State in April. Even then, the Wildcats made an immediate impression.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a school that surprised me,\u201d Maxey told Rivals. \u201cEvery coach on that staff is super cool and super knowledgeable. Coach Klein is a real players\u2019 coach, and Coach Ward is a genuine coach. Every time I\u2019ve been up there, it just gets better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most programs backed off after Maxey publicly committed to Louisville.<\/p>\n

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Kansas State did the opposite.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told me straight up they didn\u2019t care that I was committed. They told me for two or three months they were going to flip me. I was on the phone with them every day, sometimes multiple times a day, and I developed a really strong relationship with the coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time he returned for his official visit, the Wildcats had quietly become his top choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d say they had been my No. 1 school for a few weeks,\u201d Maxey admitted. \u201cI just wanted to come back for my official visit and spend more time there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The weekend only reinforced what he already felt.<\/p>\n

The family loved Kansas State as well<\/p>\n

His mother played a significant role in the process, and after experiencing the program firsthand, she quickly shared her opinion.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe told me, \u2018This is where you need to be,\u2019\u201d Maxey said. \u201cThe first visit was amazing, and somehow the official visit was even better. Being one-on-one with the coaches, talking football and life, I just knew that was the coaching staff I wanted to play for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kansas State\u2019s coaching staff and offensive philosophy ultimately separated the Wildcats from the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re the most genuine and coolest coaches I\u2019ve been around. I think Coach Klein is the best play-caller in college football, and Coach Ward is one of the best receiver coaches in the country. Getting developed by them is going to be huge.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also fell in love with the atmosphere in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you play football at K-State, you\u2019re the biggest thing in the city,\u201d he said. \u201cThe whole town revolves around it, and every game is packed. That place is jumping.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike his previous pledge, Maxey says this commitment comes with finality.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter this, I\u2019m shutting my recruitment down, and I\u2019m locked in here at K-State,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Maxey committed to Louisville before he truly got to know Kansas State. Once he did, everything changed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[80745,80746,1579,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-269805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-brooklyn-maxey-27-carrollwood-day","tag-carrollwood-day-patriots-tampa","tag-fl","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}