Any given spring brings a flurry of number changes to the Kansas football roster, some more meaningful than others. In the case of junior cornerback Jalen Todd, who wore No. 26 throughout his first two seasons in Lawrence, switching to No. 1 was an intentional tribute to one of his ...
After a pair of Jayhawks were selected in the later rounds of the 2026 NFL Draft, plenty more hoped to sign deals as undrafted free agents in the hours and days that followed. A handful of former Kansas players inked deals with teams in the wake of the draft: quarterback Jalon Daniels, ...
The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks made Emmanuel Henderson Jr. the first Kansas wide receiver selected in the NFL Draft since 2010 by picking him in the sixth round at No. 199 overall on Saturday afternoon. It's the second straight year in which Seattle has picked a Jayhawk in ...
The San Francisco 49ers made offensive lineman Enrique Cruz Jr. the first Kansas football player selected in the 2026 NFL Draft on Saturday afternoon. San Francisco picked Cruz at No. 179 overall with the third-to-last pick of the fifth round. In doing so, the 49ers went back to the well for ...
Jaden Nickens announced on Thursday night that he is leaving Kansas and switching to playing exclusively basketball. His departure brings to an end a tenure at the university in which Nickens arrived as a two-sport athlete but never appeared in a game for either KU’s football or men’s ...
The NFL Draft can be exceptionally difficult to predict. In the days leading up to last year’s draft, after Kansas had graduated a memorable and extremely talented senior class, it appeared a virtual certainty that four KU players would get selected, matching the program’s high-water mark ...
Michigan State transfer David Santiago still thinks highly of his defensive coordinator with the Spartans, Joe Rossi. Santiago said he thought he became a lot smarter as a player and as a student of the game during his year in East Lansing, Michigan. But during his time at the school, he also ...
It’s been a long time since Kansas fielded a group of defensive tackles that didn’t include both Tommy Dunn Jr. and D.J. Withers — so long that it predates Jim Panagos’ arrival as a member of Lance Leipold’s coaching staff. Kenean Caldwell, for his part, had been around so long as to ...
