CU Buffs Make Four-Star Devin Kirkwood's Top Five
The Colorado Buffaloes are in Devin Kirkwood's top five schools.
He released them via Twitter on Tuesday morning.
The other four schools are California, Arizona State, UCLA and Notre Dame.
Kirkwood is rated as a four-star recruit on 247Sports and a three-star on Rivals. The analysts from both sides have predicted Kirkwood will choose Arizona State.
The 6-foot-4, 185-pounder has been in contact with CU cornerbacks coach Demetrice Martin. They started building that relationship while Martin was at Arizona and kept building it when Martin made the switch to Colorado.
“Coach 'Meat' is a cool coach,” the four-star defensive back said. “He really likes to get to know me a lot. He calls me on a regular basis, talks to me on a regular basis to see how I'm doing, checks on my mom to see how she's doing. And he always talks to me on situations going on throughout the day, asking me what am I doing to get myself better and telling me to challenge myself every day. I really like how he challenges me to be better and is telling me what he sees that I need to do and what I need to work on.”
He was one of Martin's first offers since taking the job at Colorado.
Kirkwood has the ability to play either safety or cornerback at the next level and he doesn’t have a preference between the two positions.
“No, not really,” Kirkwood said when asked if he has a preference. “Because I want to be able to show that I can play both because sometimes they might need a corner to play safety. Sometimes they might need a safety to play corner.”