When the Colorado Buffaloes hired Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders as their next head coach, they obviously expected that he would be able to ramp up the team’s recruiting efforts. But unfortunately for Sanders, he got some pretty horrible news on that front this week at the game’s most important positions.
In a horrible turn of events for Deion Sanders and Colorado, the team lost both of its quarterback commits this week as 2025 four-star quarterback Antwann Hill Jr. and 2024 three-star quarterback Danny O’Neil both decommitted from the Colorado football program in back-to-back days with Hill announcing his decision on Sunday and O’Neil announcing on Monday.
“BREAKING: Class of 2024 QB Danny O’Neil tells me he has Decommitted from Colorado. The 6’1 190 QB from Indianapolis, IN had been Committed to the Buffaloes since March. Was an Elite 11 Finalist. Colorado loses their 2025 & 2024 QB in back to back days,” recruiting expert Hayes Fawcett of On3 said in a post on X, the social media website that was formerly known as Twitter.
Obviously, this is pretty horrible news for Sanders and Colorado as players continue to leave their recruiting classes, and the college football world had a lot to say about it on social media as a result.
Three-star QB Danny O’Neil, the first hand-picked QB by Deion Sanders at Colorado, has decommitted from the Buffaloes 2024 class.
Colorado’s 2024 class ranks outside of the top 60 nationally in the 247Sports Composite just days away from the month of December. https://t.co/ec6A8XaQUP
— Ari Wasserman (@AriWasserman) November 27, 2023
Colorado’s 2024 recruiting class now ranks 65th in the country.
In the new look Big 12, the Buffs’ 2024 class ranks 13th out of 16 schools.
Better find some more Louis in the transfer portal… https://t.co/APJGweHpyW pic.twitter.com/Qwab5mRGRa
— Ben Stevens (@BenScottStevens) November 27, 2023
This will move Colorado's class down to ~68th, basically tied with …….. Colorado State's https://t.co/R46n0JzLtK
— Jason Kirk (buy my novel) (@JasonKirk_fyi) November 27, 2023
Man why is everyone decommitting from
Colorado ? This isn’t the first time https://t.co/t0AkDR0RGZ— Booger (@ESPNBooger) November 27, 2023
Nobody wants to play for Deion anymore 😂 https://t.co/Etmbt6DtoP
— Husker Wave (@HuskerWave) November 27, 2023
Colorado is down to 8 total high school commits in the Class of 2024. Early Signing Day is in three weeks. https://t.co/Fd9SEop7wR
— Shehan Jeyarajah (@ShehanJeyarajah) November 27, 2023
Little rocky out there in Boulder these days. https://t.co/xX8ud1vkMO
— Justin Hopkins (@JHopkinsSD) November 27, 2023
To make matters worse, the early signing period is in just a few weeks, so there’s not much time to find a replacement for O’Neil.
