Signing day has become fairly anticlimactic in recent years provided a team is not going through a coaching change, and that was the case on Wednesday morning for IU.
Before 10 a.m. ET, all 21 previously committed members of Indiana’s 2025 class were announced by the IU football program, signifying that they had signed their scholarship paperwork to join the team.
The IU 2025 class includes one 4-star and 20 3-stars. According to the On3 Industry Average, Indiana’s class ranks No. 48 nationally and No. 14 in the Big Ten. Those are fluid numbers that will fluctuate as teams around the country experience flipped and late commitments. Of course most of the legwork for this 2025 group was complete before Indiana went on to have an 11-1 season in Curt Cignetti’s first year at the helm in Bloomington.
Baltimore, Md. safety Byron Baldwin is the headliner of the group. The 4-star is one of the highest-rated signees by Indiana during the rankings era.
But as you’ve likely learned by now, rankings only mean so much.
Indiana had three players named first team All-Big Ten yesterday, and their high school rankings were as follows: Mikail Kamara — 0-star, Aiden Fisher — 0-star, and D’Angelo Ponds — 3-star. Second team All-Big Ten quarterback Kurtis Rourke was a 2-star coming out of high school.
And already, some of Indiana’s less heralded members of its 2024 class were the freshmen to emerge in the program this year, including unranked linebacker Rolijah Hardy, and low-end 3-star defensive lineman Mario Landino.
So we’ll have to wait and see what becomes of Indiana’s 2025 crew.
The 2025 class includes four players from Indiana and Ohio, two from Illinois, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee, and one each from North Carolina, Wisconsin, Virginia, Missouri and Maryland.
14 of the 21 players will enroll at Indiana in January.
(photos/graphics via IU Athletics)
Here are the 21 members of Indiana’s 2025 class, listed roughly in the order of their ratings by the national outlets.
- Byron Baldwin, Baltimore, Maryland, S (4-star) – SIGNED
- Tyrone Burrus, Indianapolis, Indiana, DE (3-star) – SIGNED
- Triston Abram, St. Louis, Missouri, DE (3-star) – SIGNED
- Sean Cuono, Clearwater, Florida, RB (3-star) – SIGNED
- Seaonta Stewart, Cincinnati, Ohio, CB (3-star) – SIGNED
- Davion Chandler, Indianapolis, Indiana, WR (3-star) – SIGNED
- Jaylen Bell, Loganville, Georgia, CB (3-star) – SIGNED
- Jhrevious Hall, Columbia, Tennessee, DL (3-star) – SIGNED
- LeBron Bond, Norfolk, Virginia, WR (3-star) – SIGNED
- Zacharey Smith, Atlanta, Georgia, CB (3-star) – SIGNED
- Paul Nelson, Cincinnati, Ohio, LB (3-star) – SIGNED
- Myles Kendrick, Jacksonville, Florida, WR (3-star) – SIGNED
- Keishaun Calhoun, Groveport, Ohio, DL (3-star) – SIGNED
- Kyler Garcia, Nashville, Tennessee, DL (3-star) – SIGNED
- Blake Thiry, Prairie Du Chien, Wisconsin, TE (3-star) – SIGNED
- Evan Parker, Carmel, Indiana, OL (3-star) – SIGNED
- Baylor Wilkin, Findlay, Ohio, OL (3-star) – SIGNED
- Matt Marek, Orland Park, Illinois, OL (3-star) – SIGNED
- Jamari Farmer, Mooresville, North Carolina, LB (3-star) – SIGNED
- Garrett Reese, Elmhurst, Illinois, DB (3-star) – SIGNED
- Andrew Barker, Kokomo, Indiana, TE (3-star) – SIGNED
Cignetti will meet with the media at Noon ET on Wednesday to talk more about the 2025 class.
The staff will also be focusing on the transfer portal, which opens for everyone next week but is already open for graduate transfers and players from teams with a coaching change.
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