South Dakota National Signing Day 2026 Signees

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The final National Signing Day is a wrap for this 2026 class in South Dakota. We saw <strong>111</strong> (per the releases we could find) athletes from South Dakota sign to play college football next fall. We listed each school in order of how many South Dakota athletes they signed, as that is the only order we have this group in. Lets meet all the names that headed to the next-level!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Dakota State (24)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='825396' first='Alec' last='Austin'], QB, Centerville</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1212284' first='Kaleb' last='Blackmun'], OL, Sioux Falls Washington</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Stephen Anawski, LB, Brookings</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Spencer Bush, LB, Belle Fourche</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2072648' first='Dalton' last='Deffenbaugh'], OL, Kimball-White Lake</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Otto Eidsness, LB, Brookings</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848947' first='Easton' last='Graff'], LB, Rapid City Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1575888' first='Carter' last='Gross'], QB, West Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='670033' first='Bryce' last='Hawkinson'], RB, Britton-Hecla</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='929916' first='Isaak' last='Hunter'], LB/WR, Miller </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1591367' first='Zakariya' last='Ibrahim'], DB, Sioux Falls Jefferson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848982' first='Sully' last='Jost'], RB, Sturgis Brown</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='394734' first='Kyle' last='Kneeland'], LB, Waverly-South Shore</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='670029' first='Lincoln' last='LeBrun'], LB, Dell Rapids St. Mary</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1216144' first='Lawson' last='Lodmel'], DE, Tri-Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1333799' first='Devin' last='Lodmell'], LB, Dell Rapids</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1236465' first='Laythan' last='Lucas'], LB, Spearfish</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1575905' first='Eli' last='Mundahl'], LB, West Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1212283' first='Cayden' last='Patterson'], DE, Kadoka Area</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1274073' first='Nicholas' last='Popkes'], TE, Sioux Falls Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2072647' first='Tate' last='Sorensen'], TE, Freeman</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1568244' first='Kenny' last='Swanson'], LB, Dell Rapids</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Tyan Buus, WR, Mount Marty/Pierre T.F. Riggs</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Cole Ruesink, RB, Northern State/Dell Rapids</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Northern State (18)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>James Behan, WR, Liberty/Aberdeen Roncalli</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1235835' first='Edly' last='Amaro'], EDGE, Yankton</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='670031' first='Jesiah' last='Baum'], RB, Warner</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1113091' first='Jack' last='Bertsch'], DL, Aberdeen Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848945' first='Karson' last='Borge'], WR, Aberdeen Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Joey Dallmann, LB, Aberdeen Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1592136' first='Josh' last='Elder'], LB, Rapid City St. Thomas More</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1475610' first='Colby' last='Flowers'], TE, Wessington Springs</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1592000' first='Kolte' last='Garry'], TE, West Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1983237' first='Drace' last='Gaskins'], OL, Yankton</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1406691' first='Felipe' last='Gonzalez'], DT, Aberdeen Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Alshamon Gunter, DL, Avon</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1575934' first='Landon' last='Hulst'], RB, Huron</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Dreavin Hodge, RB, South Dakota/Sioux Falls Lincoln</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1568254' first='Riley' last='Kerner'], OL, Wall</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2073029' first='Matthew' last='Mount'], LB, Webster Area</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1239664' first='Nolan' last='Pudwill'], DB, Brandon Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='929919' first='Westyn' last='Thorpe'], DB, Leola-Frederick</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Dakota Wesleyan (16)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1276033' first='Kaleb' last='Lounsbury'], QB, Pierre T.F. Riggs</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848854' first='Briggs' last='Knutson'], QB, Brandon Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Tone Ledbetter, DL, Brandon Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Reed Rus, LB, South Dakota/Mount Vernon-Plankinton</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Easton Miller, WR, Canistota</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1593292' first='Cade' last='Leonhardt'], OL, Faulkton Area</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1568261' first='Kadyn' last='Westergren'], RB, Sully Buttes</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1858153' first='Aiden' last='Devine'], RB, Rapid City Stevens</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Milo Sumption, LB, Leola-Frederick</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Isaiah Gunnick, OL, Brandon Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1422321' first='Wyatt' last='Bult'], K/P, Lennox</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Latham Gabriel, RB, Phillip</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1591366' first='Troy' last='Catches'], RB, Dakota Wesleyan</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='825409' first='Ethan' last='Owen'], LB, Milbank</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Nate Wilber, Kicker, Hanson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Tayden Nave, LB, Northern State/Sioux Falls Roosevelt</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Northwestern (IA) (13)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1112592' first='Josiah' last='Heinz'], RB, Harrisburg</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1568245' first='Tate' last='Connell'], DB, Sioux Falls Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2072611' first='Lyncoln' last='Leo'], OL, Sioux Falls Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848992' first='Carson' last='Maeschen'], DL, Dell Rapids</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Garrett Mellendorf, OL, Rapid City Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1575894' first='Cole' last='Nielsen'], OL, Rapid City St. Thomas More</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='929801' first='Asher' last='Peil'], OL, Spearfish</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2072622' first='Broeden' last='Sales'], WR, Rapid City St. Thomas More</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1422289' first='Rip' last='Siemonsma'], DL, Sioux Falls O'Gorman</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1575922' first='Jack' last='Stocklin'], WR, Sioux Falls O'Gorman</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1568248' first='Dawson' last='Unruh'], K/P/LB, Sioux Falls Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2072586' first='Owen' last='Eidsness'], WR, Yankton</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1610311' first='Cole' last='Hansen'], DB, Watertown</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Black Hills State (7)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Emmit Lipp, OL, Belle Fourche</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1853445' first='Luke' last='Schmitz'], TE/ATH, Elk Point-Jefferson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='825411' first='Henry' last='Telechan'], DB, Rapid City Stevens</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2072579' first='Onzei' last='Weaver'], DB, Rapid City Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2072543' first='Trajan' last='Weaver'], DB, Rapid City Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1224699' first='Landon' last='Wieman'], QB, Parker</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Will Young, WR/DB, Harrisburg</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Chadron State (7)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1235852' first='Younger' last='Amiotte'], LB, Wall</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='929927' first='Dawson' last='Handcock'], WR, Wall</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1575933' first='Kyler' last='Kjerstad'], DL, Wall</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2072692' first='Tyler' last='Martin'], DL, Faith</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1575235' first='Max' last='Speed'], TE, Rapid City St. Thomas More</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1236490' first='Ben' last='Veldkamp'], OL, Dell Rapids</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1592097' first='Owen' last='White'], DL, Hot Springs</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Sioux Falls (6)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Lucas Honner, TE, Sioux Falls Lincoln</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Preston Marty, DB, Sioux Falls Lincoln</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848928' first='Daevion' last='Simonsen'], RB, Sioux Falls Jefferson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1279012' first='Jensen' last='Pixler'], LB, Sioux Falls Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='402519' first='Karsten' last='Sissoko'], WR, Sioux Falls Jefferson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1532671' first='Levi' last='Veskrna'], RB, Brandon Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Southwest Minnesota State (6)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='402520' first='Noah' last='Duran'], DL, Sioux Falls Jefferson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848948' first='Quinton' last='Hall'], DB, Sioux Falls Washington</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848985' first='Malachi' last='James'], WR, Beresford</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Zoan Robinson, WR, Mount Marty/Vermillion</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1557506' first='Nathan' last='Sayler'], OL, Elk Point-Jefferson</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1592043' first='Holden' last='Wollmann'], DB, Bridgewater-Ethan-Emery</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Augustana (5)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1236461' first='Gavin' last='Hammrich'], LB, Sioux Falls O'Gorman</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848974' first='Brenner' last='Konrad'], TE/ATH, Tea Area</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1544709' first='Chase' last='Leary'], DB, Brandon Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='563997' first='Kamden' last='Schimmel'], DB, Harrisburg</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1422284' first='Sam' last='Uhing'], WR, Sioux Falls Washington</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Jamestown (3)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848981' first='Tate' last='Gadbois'], WR, Sioux Falls Christian</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1575880' first='Braylen' last='Bowsher'], DB/QB, Milbank</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Jackson Coauette, LB, Spearfish</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>South Dakota Mines (2)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1422287' first='Henry' last='Hill'], DB, Rapid City Central</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1568241' first='Mekhi' last='Zacher'], DE, Brandon Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>MSU-Mankato (1)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1370672' first='Louison' last='Akossi'], WR, Sioux Falls Lincoln</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Iowa State (1)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='848853' first='Bradley' last='Esser'], LB/DB, Harrisburg</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>MSU-Moorhead (1)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='551462' first='Bryce' last='Bangasser'], OL, Brandon Valley</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"medium"} --> <p class="has-medium-font-size"><strong>Bismarck State (1)</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1397784' first='Pierson' last='Morganfield'], OL, Rapid City St. Thomas More</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->