#52 Nick Allen

Redshirt Freshman | 5-11 | 226 lbs. | Overland Park, Kansas

Courtesy Kansas State Athletics

• Position: Linebacker
• Previous College: None
• Projection: Scout Team
• Status: Preferred Walk-On

Nicholas Randall Allen (b. Nov. 5, 1999) is a walk-on linebacker from Blue Valley High School Southwest in Overland Park. He redshirted in 2018 and projects to the scout team.

Allen played at Blue Valley Southwest under head coach Anthony Orrick and was named to the Kansas Football Coaches Association (KFBCA) Top 11 team as one of the best 11 players in the state of Kansas among all classes in 2017.

He earned first-team all-state honors as a senior from KFBCA, The Topeka Capital-Journal and The Wichita Eagle, while he also was an honorable mention pick from the latter two organizations as a junior.

Allen was named the 2017 Eastern Kansas League (EKL) Defensive Player of the Year after totaling 151 tackles, 21 tackles for loss and 3.5 sacks.

He also was named a first-team All-Metro performer by the Star and was a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award as the most outstanding lineman or linebacker among big-class schools in the Kansas City area.

Allen is majoring in biology, with the career aspiration of becoming an orthopedic surgeon.

“It’s been my dream,” he told the Star. “I grew up in Kansas my whole life, and I always loved K-State and the color purple.”

Allen had opportunities to go the community college route on a scholarship, or he could have walked on at Oklahoma State. But the Wildcats gave him a clear picture of the future.

“I just told myself if I were to get a scholarship to anywhere that I would consider it until I got a scholarship or (preferred walk-on offer) from K-State,” he said.