NC State hosting Texas Tech transfer EDGE Joseph Adedire for official visit
NC State continues to look to bolster its defensive line through the transfer portal this spring. The Wolfpack has already signed a pair of edge rushers since spring practice ended — Utah State’s Cian Slone and Wyoming’s Sabastian Harsh — and the program is hosting another this week.
Texas Tech transfer EDGE Joseph Adedire will be on campus Monday and Tuesday, his agent told On3’s Pete Nakos.
The 6-foot-3, 265-pound defensive lineman suffered a preseason injury that held him off the field for the 2024 season. He has since recovered and is ready to go for the 2025 season with two years of eligibility remaining.
Adedire has posted 44 career tackles, including 7.5 for a loss, with two sacks and a pass defended in his two healthy seasons of college football. He improved from his freshman to sophomore campaign, going from 19 tackles with 3.5 for a loss in 2022 to 25 stops with four for a loss in 2023. Adedire logged one sack in each season.
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The Mansfield, Texas, native made eight starts at outside linebacker in 2023, which featured 12 total appearances. He was a major contributor as a freshman as well, where he was the only true freshman to play in more than four games for the Red Raiders’ defense, including six starts at EDGE.
Adedire, a former four-star recruit in the 2022 cycle as the No. 230 player nationally, was an All-Big 12 honorable mention selection by the league’s coaches as a freshman.
It’s clear NC State is looking to change the personnel it has on its defensive line to match with new coordinator D.J. Eliot wants to do on the field this fall. Now, the Wolfpack will look to add Adedire to its new stable of edge rushers, a position that NC State didn’t utilize to this extent during Tony Gibson’s run as the play-caller in his 3-3-5 scheme.
