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MANHATTAN — After four years with the Kansas State football team, Cody Stufflebean was ready to move on.
Yes, after redshirting as a true freshman in 2020, he had at least one season of eligibility left, but he also had his degree in industrial engineering, with a 4.0 grade point average no less.
But as the time came for a final decision, Stufflebean had a change of heart. He not only thought about his own career, most of it spent as a backup defensive end, but also on the veteran players that helped him along the way.
K-State has a wealth of young talent at defensive end, but not much experience. That is until Stufflebean and super-senior starter Brendan Mott both opted back in.
“Just all the people that poured into me from the past from the past between like Eli Huggins and Tim Horn and people like that,” Stufflebean said of his decision. “And I want to be able to do that for some of the younger guys, because I know that I had that.
“And then, just leaving, I felt like my time wasn’t quite done here.”
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Kansas State defensive end Cody Stufflebean (47) puts pressure on Baylor quarterback Blake Shapen during last year’s game at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.
That was music to defensive end coach Buddy Wyatt’s ears. As a junior last year, Stufflebean became a regular in a four-man defensive end rotation along with Mott, Khalid Duke and Nate Matlack.
“We were not expecting those two to come back,” Wyatt said of Stufflebean and Mott. “Cody talked to me right before the bowl game, and he had told me before we left to go to the bowl game that he thought he was going to go ahead and (leave). He had already graduated.
“I was glad, because I know what I’m getting our of Cody. I know what type of leadership he brings to our football team. I know what kind of person…
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Author : The Topeka Capital-Journal
Publish date : 2024-08-16 08:06:07
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