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Wake Forest head coach Jake Dickert announced the signing of 30 future Demon Deacons on Wednesday as a part of 2025 National Signing Day.
30!!!! All signed to be the next great Deac!! Thank you to our Recruiting team, Scouting, Coaches, professors, and the Winston-Salem community for helping us land the BEST class in Wake Forest History!!! pic.twitter.com/UUh65azQo0
— Jake Dickert (@CoachDickert) December 3, 2025
“It was an exciting day for all Demon Deacons out there,” head coach Jake Dickert said at the start of his press conference on Wednesday afternoon. “I want to start quickly by saying how appreciative Candace and I and our family are, since the moment we got here 11 months ago, of the support of the Board of Trustees, our broader administration, President Wente, and all of our alumni and supporters. Bob McCreary is a special man, and he made all this possible. This is the place that we want to be. We love Winston-Salem, and we love Wake Forest. We’re excited about being here and excited about what it means for our program. The investment Wake Forest wants to make in our players, our support staff, and the vision that we’ve created going forward has been special. That partnership has been really key, and it’s just an honor to represent Wake Forest moving forward. Our family is really appreciative of that.
A great day to be a Demon Deacon ✍️
🎩⬆️ pic.twitter.com/DQH4mxtVur
— Wake Forest Football (@WakeFB) December 3, 2025
“Fast forward another 12 hours to this morning. We added 30 members of the Demon Deacon family from all over the country and all over the world. I think you saw Sweden and Ghana in there. I want to give a bunch of thanks to Rob Schlaeger, our general manager. He is the best in the business. I also want to give thanks to Katie Bason, our director of player personnel; all of our scouts and our scouting department; and our recruiting department with Ty Gatson, Maggie Mullen and Joel Diaz-Romero. They are just incredible with the amount of work that they’ve done to put this group together. I also want to thank our coaching staff, our support staff, and our coaches’ wives who are involved in recruiting all these guys. I also want to thank the restaurants and the faculty and staff who spend their time with these young men. I think it’s a really impressive class. I don’t get into all the rankings. It’s about their character, it’s about their toughness, and it’s about everything they’ve done throughout the course of this recruiting process to earn this opportunity to sit in these seats. I think that’s a really, really big deal.
Signed 🖊️
@AjMarks_1 | #WakeUp26 pic.twitter.com/1pkpkhMhOK— Wake Forest Football (@WakeFB) December 3, 2025
“Obviously, this is the biggest class in Wake Forest history. I think that was big to really reset the foundation of Wake Forest football. There are no shortcuts to success, and having the ability to sign these guys has been really special. These guys have a 78.0 winning percentage in high school. We love winners. We love guys who know how to win and that want to win. I think that’s big. They have an average GPA of 3.49. They want to be challenged in everything that they do—from the classroom to the field, to the workouts. That’s something really important for us. Obviously, we just signed the highest-rated recruit in Wake Forest history, five players from North Carolina and 18 multisport athletes. Biomechanics and anthropometrics are important to us and the functional movements of these guys. We have 10 guys over 6-foot-4. There are just a lot of things that bring a lot of excitement to me for the future. I’m so proud of our staff and all the work that goes into signing these guys, and I’m excited now about having a full 365 days for our next class.
WHAT. A. MORNING.#WakeUp26 pic.twitter.com/Yf9kUAP1Yd
— Wake Forest Football (@WakeFB) December 3, 2025
“The excitement of the season was felt in this group. In the summer, we were selling hope and optimism. Obviously, as the season unfolded, we were selling an opportunity and something special that we’re building here. It just takes everybody. I know I’m up here talking about these 30 guys, but what a special class. I’m really proud of everyone that we brought in here—where they’re from, who they are, their potential ceiling, the vision that we have created for them, and their belief in that. I told every one of them this morning that I have one goal, and that’s that in five years, they walk out of here saying that this was the best decision they ever made. That’s really important to us, and that’s the love and passion and accountability that we’re going to have for all these guys, and we’re going to do great things together. We’re excited about these guys and what they have for Demon Deacon Nation.”
Welcome to DEACTOWN, Cade 🎩
@CadeHolles | #WakeUp26 pic.twitter.com/8EHLfYyXx2
— Wake Forest Football (@WakeFB) December 3, 2025
2026 Wake Forest National Signing Day Class
Player Pos HT WT Hometown High School
Gannon Jones QB 5-11 185 Cary, NC Cardinal Gibbons High School
Grant Lawless QB 6-4 195 Denver, NC East Lincoln High School
Christian “Deuce” Lawrence RB 5-8 190 Tallahassee, FL Thomas County Central High School
Kyndall McCaleb RB 6-0 205 Painesville, OH Riverside High School
Kobe Adeleke-Hokes WR 5-11 185 Atlanta, GA Peachtree Ridge High School
Devin Goldston WR 6-2 185 Raleigh, NC Leesville Road High School
Elijah Otieno WR 5-9 160 Forney, TX North Forney High School
Walker Bryson WR 6-0 185 Waynesville, NC Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School
Dominick Barry TE 6-3 240 Greenwood, IN Center Grove High School
Maximilian “Max” Tillfeldt Retsler TE 6-7 240 Stockholm, SWE RIG Academy
Brady Shust TE 6-6 250 Sparta, NJ St. Joseph Regional High School
Dalton DeBoer OL 6-6 350 Lakeville, IA Northwest High School
Fletcher Turk OL 6-6 290 Cumming, GA Hebron Christian Academy
Dylan Durbin OL 6-6 260 Corpus Christi, TX Veterans Memorial High School
Langston Hogg OL 6-2 280 Kennesaw, GA Cartersville High School
Ryan Harrington DL 6-4 220 Commerce Township, MI St. Mary’s Preparatory School
Christian Harris DL 6-0 300 Cincinnati, OH Archbishop Moeller High School
Lucas Smalls-Allen DL 6-3 270 Roswell, GA Blessed Trinity Catholic High School
Cooper Long DL 6-4 275 Fall River, MA Salisbury School
Cade Holles DL 6-6 240 Centennial, CO Cherry Creek High School
Sefa Sackey DL 6-5 210 Accra, Ghana Deer Park High School
Isaac Nelson LB 6-2 215 Indianapolis, IN Carmel High School
Monroe Partin LB 6-3 225 Daphne, AL Bayside Academy
Richard “Deuce” Dyce LB 6-0 215 Hamden, CT Douglas County High School
Somad Eaddy DB 6-0 150 New Bern, NC Riverside High School
Alton “AJ” Marks DB 5-11 165 Detroit, MI IMG Academy
Mahamadou Siby DB 5-10 165 Justin, TX Byron Nelson High School
Micah Bright DB 5-11 185 Concord, NC William A. Hough High School
Micheal Ahoua DB 6-4 190 Torrington, CT Avon Old Farms School
Larry “Trey” Warren III DB 5-11 185 Pahokee, FL Armwood High School
Credit: godeacs.com
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