Responding to reports that Kansas University running back Carmon Boyd-Anderson will transfer from KU as early as Tuesday of this week, Edna Boyd told the Journal-World on Sunday that her son had reached no such decision.

"He hasn't made any decision exactly yet," said Edna Boyd, when reached at her home in Jacksonville, Texas. "But he said he's going to know something by Wednesday for sure."

As a true freshman last season, Boyd-Anderson played in four games, rushing 24 times for 91 yards and a touchdown before sitting out the team's final nine games.

Entering the 2008 season, however, the outlook appeared grim for the former three-star recruit out of Jacksonville High. Boyd-Anderson began the team's August training camp buried behind juniors Jake Sharp and Angus Quigley on the depth chart, with transfer Jocques Crawford, the national junior college offensive player of the year in 2007, expected to eventually garner at least a share of the carries this season.

Another Jayhawks running back, meanwhile, will miss the 2008 season due to eligibility issues, coach Mark Mangino said Friday.

Freshman Sean Ransburg, a 6-foot-1, 195-pound graduate of Harrisonville (Mo.) High School, hasn't been cleared to play by the NCAA's Clearinghouse, although coaches are hopeful that he will be able to join the program in January.

As a high school senior in 2007, Ransburg threw for 2,556 yards and 29 touchdowns while compiling 1,677 yards and 29 touchdowns on the ground, picking up all-state and Class 3A player of the year honors.

He also led Harrisonville to four straight state title games - three of which resulted in Class 3A championships - and was the first player from the Class of 2008 to commit to Kansas.

Ransburg's absence leaves the Jayhawks with six players at the running back position. In addition to Crawford, Sharp, Quigley and Boyd-Anderson, Donte Bean and the recently-repositioned Rell Lewis make up the remainder of the team's running back corps.