#30 Joe Hall — Now that big Joe Hall is back as director of player development for K-State, it’s opened the door for his slightly less big son to walk on as a KSU safety.

In which BracketCat counts down the 13th day until the 2024 kickoff with a profile of Kansas State safety Joe Hall III.

Goal No. 13: EXPECT TO WIN. And truly believe we will.

#13 Joe Hall III

Redshirt Sophomore | 6-0 | 208 lbs. | Manhattan, Kansas

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

Joe L. Hall III (b. Nov. 20, 2003) is a preferred walk-on safety-turned-cornerback from Manhattan High School who is majoring in family and consumer sciences.

Hall redshirted but did not play in 2022. He played in five games on special teams in 2023 — seeing time against SEMO, Houston, Baylor, Iowa State and NC State, the latter coming in the Pop-Tarts Bowl — and finished the season as a first-team Academic All-Big 12 performer.

Sometime during the prior offseason, Hall changed positions from safety to cornerback, presumably to rebuild after fellow Manhattan High product Dre Delort elected to transfer.

He prepped under head coach Joe Schartz for Manhattan, where he was a three-year letter-winner and a two-time all-league pick at wide receiver who only started playing defense as a senior, totaling 24 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and two pass breakups in 2021 en route to honorable mention all-state honors from Sports in Kansas and first-team all-league honors.

Hall totaled 607 yards and seven touchdowns on 44 catches during his prep career and led the Indians in receiving yards with 283 yards on 23 catches and three touchdowns.

He also prepped with current Kansas State defensive tackle Damian Ilalio and former Wildcat Sam Shields, and competed in basketball and in track and field for the Indians.

Hall walked on at K-State over offers from Butler Community College, Garden City Community College, Highland Community College, Hutchinson Community College, Independence Community College, Missouri Southern and Washburn, as well as comparable preferred walk-on offers from Kansas and South Dakota.

His father is former Wildcat favorite and current Director of Football Student-Athlete Development Joe L. Hall Jr., who was a running back at K-State in 1999-2001 before playing parts of two seasons in the National Football League (and later publishing a book).

(Joe is not quite the big guy you remember from the Snyder days — he’s dropped weight!)