<a href="https://www.on3.com/teams/nc-state-wolfpack/">NC State</a> landed the third commit of its 2025 class Friday night from priority defensive lineman <a href="https://www.on3.com/db/colby-cronk-176783/">Colby Cronk</a>. The Wolfpack hosted him twice over the past few months, and he officially joined the class after spending two days on campus this week. 



Cronk is a 6-3, 245-pound edge rusher from Flagler Palm Coast (Fla.) High. He picked the Pack over offers from Wake Forest, Duke, Iowa State and others. 



The lineman traveled to Raleigh this week for a two-day unofficial visit that he punctuated with his commitment. Cronk watched the Wolfpack practice one day and saw the team scrimmage in Carter-Finley Stadium the next. 



“It was great!” Cronk said after the first day of his visit. “Saw the facilities again and got to see the campus, which was awesome.”



The Wolfpack offered the junior commit Nov. 8, steadily building a connection with him from there. NC State traveled to Florida to visit him in January and then hosted him later that month. One day after attending a Wake Forest junior day, he drove down to Raleigh and stopped by on a Sunday as a top priority prospect on campus. 



He spent time with defensive line coach <a href="https://www.on3.com/db/coach/charley-wiles-133830/">Charley Wiles</a> on the visit watching film of the Wolfpack’s 3-3-5 scheme. Cronk can see himself fitting into the three-man front and projects as a defensive end at NC State. 



NC State now holds three commitments in the 2025 class. The defensive lineman is the first junior to join the class since three-star tight end <a href="https://www.on3.com/db/gus-ritchey-150935/">Gus Ritchey</a> did in August, 2023. Three-star quarterback <a href="https://www.on3.com/db/will-wilson-150595/">Will Wilson</a> was the first commit of the 2025 cycle and joined the Pack a couple of months earlier. 



“Their facilities were really nice— their weight room, their locker room, even their training room,” Cronk said after he visited in January. 



Cronk recorded 75 total tackles for his high school squad this season, including 61 solo stops, 12 sacks and 27 tackles for loss. The junior from Florida plans on studying engineering. 



He is currently unranked by On3, but 247Sports considers him a three-star prospect, the No. 51 edge rusher nationally and the No. 90 recruit in Florida’s 2025 class. 



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