When Deion Sanders took over as the head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes, many assumed that he would bring a little bit of juice to the team’s recruiting. While that has happened on some level, especially initially, it looks like Coach Prime has lost some of his steam on the recruiting trail as he lost both of his future quarterbacks this week.
In an absolutely brutal turn of events for Deion Sanders and Colorado, 2025 four-star quarterback Antwann Hill Jr. and 2024 three-star quarterback Danny O’Neil both decommitted from the Colorado football program on back-to-back days with Hill making his decision on Sunday and O’Neil announcing his move on Monday.
“BREAKING: Class of 2024 QB Danny O’Neil tells me he has Decommitted from Colorado. The 6’1 190 QB from Indianapolis, IN had been Committed to the Buffaloes since March. Was an Elite 11 Finalist. Colorado loses their 2025 & 2024 QB in back to back days,” recruiting expert Hayes Fawcett of On3 said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
BREAKING: Class of 2024 QB Danny O’Neil tells me he has Decommitted from Colorado
The 6’1 190 QB from Indianapolis, IN had been Committed to the Buffaloes since March
Was an Elite 11 Finalist
Colorado loses their 2025 & 2024 QB in back to back days https://t.co/KbRF84rcAT pic.twitter.com/rtXhuVusYr
— Hayes Fawcett (@Hayesfawcett3) November 27, 2023
This leaves Sanders and Colorado with no high school quarterback commitments – a brutal turn of events just a few days from college football’s early signing period. As a result, the college football world had a lot to say about it on social media.
Three-star QB Danny O’Neil, the first hand-picked QB by Deion Sanders at Colorado, has decommitted from the Buffaloes 2024 class.
Colorado’s 2024 class ranks outside of the top 60 nationally in the 247Sports Composite just days away from the month of December. https://t.co/ec6A8XaQUP
— Ari Wasserman (@AriWasserman) November 27, 2023
Colorado’s 2024 recruiting class now ranks 65th in the country.
In the new look Big 12, the Buffs’ 2024 class ranks 13th out of 16 schools.
Better find some more Louis in the transfer portal… https://t.co/APJGweHpyW pic.twitter.com/Qwab5mRGRa
— Ben Stevens (@BenScottStevens) November 27, 2023
This will move Colorado's class down to ~68th, basically tied with …….. Colorado State's https://t.co/R46n0JzLtK
— Jason Kirk (buy my novel) (@JasonKirk_fyi) November 27, 2023
Man why is everyone decommitting from
Colorado ? This isn’t the first time https://t.co/t0AkDR0RGZ— Booger (@ESPNBooger) November 27, 2023
Nobody wants to play for Deion anymore 😂 https://t.co/Etmbt6DtoP
— Husker Wave (@HuskerWave) November 27, 2023
Colorado is down to 8 total high school commits in the Class of 2024. Early Signing Day is in three weeks. https://t.co/Fd9SEop7wR
— Shehan Jeyarajah (@ShehanJeyarajah) November 27, 2023
Little rocky out there in Boulder these days. https://t.co/xX8ud1vkMO
— Justin Hopkins (@JHopkinsSD) November 27, 2023
Whatever momentum Colorado had on the recruiting trail seems to be fading fast.
