Kansas State Football inducted four new members into the Ring of Honor during halftime of the season opener Saturday against South Dakota.
This years inductees included former Wildcat greats Michael Bishop, Jordy Nelson, Darren 
Sproles and Clarence Scott.
Bishop was one of the best quarterbacks to put on a Wildcat jersey and played a major role in propelling Kansas State to their first ever No. 1 national ranking in 1998. He was the ’98 Heisman Trophy runner-up and still holds the K-State season passing efficiency record after a 159.6 rating in 1998 (164-of-295 for 2,844 yards and 23 TDs/4 INTs) in addition to the season total offense mark at 3,592 yards.
To see his name permanently affixed to the facing of the east side of Bill Snyder Family Stadium speaks volumes.
“To look over there and see my name, I mean it speaks volumes because during the years coming back you see the other guys names up there and you think ‘You know I wonder when my name is going to get up there.’ So you anticipate and you anticipate and then I finally got the call and they told me it’s going up there, after I got off the phone with Sean Snyder, I set the phone down and I shed a tear,” said Bishop.
Bishop went on to say that it shows that all of his hard work has finally paid off,”and that’s something that can never be taken away from me. As long as the stadium is here, mine name is up there and it’s just a great feeling.”
A former walk-on who started his Wildcat days as a defensive back, Nelson made his mark on the Wildcat program during his final season as he was named a 2007 Consensus All-American and finalist for the Biletnikoff Award. In 2007, Nelson set school records for receptions in a game (15) and season (122), receiving yards in a game (214) and season (1,606) and yards per game in a season (133.8). He was taken 36th overall by Green Bay in the 2008 NFL Draft.
A defensive back from 1968-70, Scott played in the first game at now-Bill Snyder Family Stadium. As a senior in 1970, he earned First Team All-America honors from Sporting News and Look Magazine in addition to being a First Team All-Big Eight honoree. Drafted 14th overall in the 1971 NFL Draft by Cleveland, Scott played 13 seasons in the NFL and helped the Browns earn four playoff appearances, while he was a 1973 Pro Bowler. He also is a member of the K-State Athletics Hall of Fame.
Sproles was one of the most dangerous all-purpose players in college football during his time at K-State (2001-2004) and as a junior helped lead the Wildcats to the 2003 Big 12 Championship and a berth in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl. He finished fifth in the Heisman Trophy race that season, but his career rushing and all-purpose numbers still rank atop the school records. K-State’s all-time leading rusher with 4,979 yards, Sproles currently has three of the school’s top four season rushing marks and totaled 24 100-yard rushing games including a string of 10 straight during the 2002 and 2003 seasons. His 2,735 all-purpose yards in 2003 are the 10th-most in NCAA history, while his career total of 6,812 is also tops in schools history. He was drafted by San Diego in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL Draft.
These four join a class of ten other Wildcat greats Lynn Dickey, Steve Grogan, Jaime Mendez, Sean Snyder, Gary Spani, Veryl Switzer, David Allen, Martin Gramatica, Terence Newman and Mark Simoneau.