Nation­al sign­ing day arrived in Col­orado on Wednes­day and brought with it zero dra­ma — as well as a famil­iar theme.

Each of the state’s most cov­et­ed recruits stayed true to ver­bal com­mit­ments made months ago, with every last one of them sign­ing let­ters of intent with schools out­side the Cen­ten­ni­al State.

The state’s top-rat­ed Class of 2024 prep prospect, three-star offen­sive line­man Gage Ginther out of Fos­sil Ridge, was among them. In fact, he’d already joined his new team at Ten­nessee before the ear­ly sign­ing peri­od for senior high school foot­ball recruits began Wednesday.

Ginther’s pledge to the Vol­un­teers marked the sev­enth straight year that Colorado’s top-rat­ed prep recruit signed with a pro­gram out­side state lines. The 6‑foot‑5, 287-pound line­man joins fel­low Fos­sil Ridge grad Trey Zuhn (Class of ’21, Texas A&M) as the sec­ond No. 1 over­all recruit from the Box State to head to the SEC in the last four years. Throw in for­mer Val­or Chris­t­ian run­ning back Gavin Saw­chuk, who signed with SEC-bound Okla­homa as part of its 2022 prep recruit­ing class, and that num­ber ris­es to three.

A year ago, CU Buffs coach Deion Sanders made a late run at Cher­ry Creek’s Blake Pur­chase, but the four-star edge rush­er ulti­mate­ly chose to sign with Ore­gon.

Coach Prime did not have a sin­gle in-state recruit sign with his pro­gram on Wednesday’s ear­ly sign­ing day, a year after sign­ing just one (Cher­ry Creek cen­ter Hank Zilin­skas). While CSU Rams coach Jay Norvell did add three in-state recruits, none were among Colorado’s top 10 recruits on the 247Sports.com com­pos­ite rank­ings. All 10 of those seniors signed with pro­grams out­side state lines.

Here’s a list of Col­orado preps who signed let­ters of intent or are ver­bal­ly com­mit­ted to play for FBS or FCS pro­grams as of Wednes­day, as well as those who have announced com­mit­ments to the Air Force Academy: