Welcome to Wyoming Football: Kaiden Kimble-Turner
LARAMIE -- Wyoming has welcomed nearly 50 new faces this offseason.
Transfer portal era, am I right?
Jay Sawvel knew a rebuild on defense was in order after losing both starting linebackers and safeties, along with leaders like Jordan Bertagnole and DeVonne Harris. The departures of Wrook Brown, Sabastian Harsh and Keany Parks only magnified things.
The second-year head coach got busy, inking a dozen transfers on that side of the ball on February's traditional signing day and adding three more since the annual spring game.
On offense, the damage was limited.
Yes, running back Harrison Waylee is now at Virginia. Young wideout Justin Stevenson is a Utah Ute now, too. But if you ask Sawvel, he kept the players he wanted on offense, beginning with quarterback Kaden Anderson.
Three of the Cowboys' top linemen -- Jack Walsh, Caden Barnett and Wes King -- are also back. So is tight end John Michael Gyllenborg, wide receivers Chris Durr Jr. and Jaylen Sargent, along with leading rusher Sam Scott.
So, without further ado, let's spent the summer meeting the new players that litter this 2025 roster:
NAME | Kaiden Kimble-Turner
YEAR | Freshman
HT/WT | 5' 10", 185
HOMETOWN | Kuna, Idaho
POSITION | Safety
JERSEY NUMBER | 28
PREVIOUS SCHOOL | Rocky Mountain High School
YEARS OF ELIGIBILITY | Four
NOTABLE | Mountain West foes New Mexico and Nevada offered Kaiden Kimble-Turner out of Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian. So did in-state program Idaho. Army and Eastern Washington came calling, too, according to 247sports.com, the same website that labeled the versatile defensive back a three-star prospect and the No. 4 recruit in the state of Idaho. The All-Conference selection tallied 24 tackles and a sack during his senior season. He also picked off a pass and swatted away three others. Kimble-Turner found the end zone five times on offense, too.
QUOTABLE | "He's a guy that we see as having really a lot of versatility on the back end. We've looked at initially having him play safety, nickel, running back. There's a lot of things he can do. He's done a lot of things for the high school teams that he has played for. He plays for a really good high school team in the Boise area, actually. And, again, just another guy that we saw initially at TCU's camp. We saw him at another camp and he performed consistently really well for us. He's been committed to us for a while," former UW Director of Player Personnel Kirby O'Meara said last December on early signing day.
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