The Kansas football team quietly added a new punter to its fresh group of specialists ahead of the 2025 season.
Efren Jasso, a senior who spent his first three seasons at Prairie View A&M at the FCS level, was added to the KU football team’s online roster in a recent update, ahead of the start of fall camp next Thursday. He made a post on X late on Friday night featuring a screenshot of his online KU bio captioned with a checkmark emoji.
Jasso stands 6-foot-2, weighs 210 pounds and is originally from Houston. His average yards per punt improved year over year each season he was with the Panthers, and most recently, in 2024, he punted 67 times for 2,689 yards (40.1 yards per kick). He had 16 punts downed inside the 20 compared to six touchbacks, and 25 of his punts resulted in fair catches.
He has shown off a big leg at times during his collegiate career. Over his past two seasons Jasso has punted for 50-plus yards on 20 occasions, including a career-long 67-yarder in Prairie View A&M’s season opener against Texas Southern last Aug. 31.
Jasso graduated from Prairie View A&M in May and had posted on social media about offers from FCS schools such as Abilene Christian and Tennessee Tech. Beginning on Wednesday, he uploaded videos of a series of practice kicks at the Murfin Family Practice Fields adjacent to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium.
In the near term, Jasso could provide some competition for McNeese transfer Finn Lappin, whom KU added during the spring after his distinguished lone campaign with the Cowboys. Lappin is listed as a redshirt senior, so unless Jasso were to redshirt, this could potentially be the final year for both players.
Veteran Grayden Addison is the other punter on KU’s 2025 roster. The Jayhawks also have Ben Shipley of Cypress Woods High School committed to join as part of the class of 2026.
KU now has 111 players on its roster. The new limit under the House v. NCAA settlement is 105, but schools are still able to exceed it by designating certain student-athletes who would otherwise have lost their spots.
