Goodland (Kans.) tight end Linkon Cure was the newest junior to be added to the Top247 in the 2025 class this week.
Cure is an athletic 6-foot-6, 215-pound prospect who has made college coaches find out where Goodland is. It is on the western side of the state, closer to Denver than it is Kansas City. There have been a handful of other Goodland grads who have gone on to play college ball, but Cure’s level of recruitment is new for the program.
“There have been some,” says head coach Jordan Moshier. “The most well known is Brooks Berringer who was a quarterback with Tommie Frazier at Nebraska, and there have been some others, but I wouldn’t say at this level.”
It doesn’t take long looking at Cure’s frame, film, and an athletic background that includes running hurdles in track to see what schools are thinking.
“Well I think when he first came out, he had some means to be able to go to some camps this past summer like Kansas State, Kansas, Iowa State, and I’ve told other coaches this, he goes to K-State and runs 4.52 laser in the forty at 6-foot-6, 210 pounds — you’re going to get a lot of attention,” Moshier says. “K-State offered there, then KU offered, then he went to Ames and they offered and it took on a life of it’s own.”
Since the second week of September, these are the schools that have offered Cure: Penn State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Vanderbilt, Nebraska, Michigan, Florida, Texas A&M, Auburn, Oklahoma State, Iowa, Oregon, Tennessee, Notre Dame and Oklahoma.
“Initially it was kind of shocking,” Moshier admits. “I knew he wanted to be recruited at this level but I definitely didn’t think it would happen this quickly. The first few offers came and then a lot of others started coming in and we had to adjust, but with all that have come on board his year, it’s been on a different level.”
Cure goes about his business the same way he always has and handles the attention exceptionally well according to Moshier.
That has been a great example to the younger players in the program and it helps shine a light on other players with college aspirations.
“It’s huge. This is great for Linkon, but it’s good for the rest of the kids on the team too. We don’t have a ton of D1 talent, but all coaches have connections and I look at it as, maybe this kid isn’t going D1, but I have a friend that coaches D2 somewhere and we can get him some looks,” Moshier said. “So it’s really exciting to potentially able to give more kids a chance to get looked at by colleges.”
Cure has steadily added weight to his frame, going from just above 200 pounds to around 215 pounds in roughly half a year. That type of trajectory is what the schools see and what 247Sports saw in projecting him as a high-end national recruit.
“Oh, he can get a lot better,” Moshier says. “He has a lot of talent right now, but it’s very much raw talent, and that’s very exciting. Coaches turn on the film and see he’s super talented but not even close to his peak yet. He can get a lot bigger, a lot stronger, and be a really good, dynamic weapon wherever he chooses to go.”
Cure is viewed as a top five junior in Kansas and a top 15 tight end nationally.
