Kansas Jayhawks football recruiting updates 2014

Committed to Kansas since May of 2013, Watson took an official visit to Syracuse last week and had a planned trip to Illinois upcoming, but the journey to see the Orange wasn’t enough to get him to flip his commitment and the 6-1, 225-pounder has cancelled the visit to Illinois.

A consensus three-star prospect, Watson is ranked as the No. 31 inside linebacker nationally, the No. 15 player in the state of Illinois, and the No. 380 player in the country by the 247Sports Composite rankings. He holds offers from Cincinnati, Indiana, Iowa State, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Missouri, Purdue, and TCU. The pledge to Kansas was considered an upset at the time by the industry, as he was widely expected to chose Michigan.