The Kansas football team has a chance to send an offensive tackle to the NFL once again, as starting right tackle Logan Brown announced on Wednesday that he is declaring for the 2025 NFL Draft.
“It has been an honor to represent the University of Kansas football program these past two years,” Brown wrote on social media. “I want to thank my teammates for the memories we have made on and off the field and for competing with me day in and day out. I want to thank the coaching, athletic training and support staff for allowing me to grow into the person and player I am today.
“I could not be more excited to declare for the 2025 NFL Draft. Forever Rock Chalk!”
Brown dealt with injury at times during his two-year KU tenure but started 11 of a possible 12 games during the 2024 season as the Jayhawks’ right tackle, after switching places with Bryce Cabeldue during fall camp. Brown’s Pro Football Focus grade of 80.9 was third among qualified Big 12 Conference tackles, just ahead of Cabeldue’s.
Brown had arrived as a transfer from Wisconsin in 2023 but missed all but two games of his first season in Lawrence due to injury. He was a five-star prospect out of East Kentwood High School in Michigan and played in 26 games over his four years with the Badgers but was dismissed from the team midway through 2022.
He could potentially have played in 2025 for KU, which would have been a seventh season of college football, by obtaining a medical waiver based on the events of the 2023 season, a plan that head coach Lance Leipold had previously discussed on multiple occasions. But his decision means he will now have a chance to follow in the footsteps of Dominick Puni, another transfer to KU who became the highest-drafted Jayhawk in 18 years when the San Francisco 49ers picked him in the third round last April.
For KU, the loss of Brown means a significant blow to their prospective 2025 offensive line. Kobe Baynes, Calvin Clements and Bryce Foster are among the key contributors expected to return, although Foster could also potentially choose to go pro (even though he is a two-sport athlete and member of KU’s track and field team).
Leipold’s staff is already making moves to bring in additional talent on the line. Also on Wednesday night, former Tulsa tackle Jack Tanner, who has three years of eligibility remaining, announced that he had received an offer from KU.
Mike Gunnoe/Special to the Journal-World
