The Kansas football team has found its second running back in the 2026 recruiting class.
KD Jones, a consensus three-star back from Jenks, Oklahoma, committed to KU on Thursday evening, his agent Ron Slavin confirmed to the Journal-World.
“Let’s go!! Go Jayhawks,” Jones wrote in a post on X.
Jones had previously considered KU as a finalist in his initial recruiting decision in March. But he ended up picking Oklahoma State from a group of schools that also included the likes of Louisville, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.
However, he decommitted from OSU on Sept. 23 after the firing of head coach Mike Gundy, and in the following days received new offers from schools such as Wake Forest and Georgia Tech before selecting the Jayhawks as his new team on Thursday.
The addition of Jones gives KU a second incoming freshman at running back — to replace outgoing sixth-year seniors Daniel Hishaw Jr. and Leshon Williams — to pair with Kory Amachree of Haslett, Michigan, who committed in May. The Jayhawks had not obtained a second commitment over the course of the summer.
Jones has run for more than 3,000 yards in his career at Jenks High School so far and has scored 59 total touchdowns, which currently sits two short of the career record. His father Kejuan Jones, a former OU running back, was also a standout at Jenks.
Jones now becomes the 20th commitment in the class and the first since June 27, when defensive tackle Lucas Smalls-Allen pledged to join the Jayhawks.
While Hishaw and Williams will exhaust their eligibility after 2025, KU has plenty of talent for the future at running back, including Johnny Thompson Jr., Harry Stewart III, John Kelly and Justin Thurman.
