Kansas' newest wide receiver, Doug Emilien, said Tuesday that he had decided to join the Jayhawks after transferring from Minnesota because of the relationships he had built with the coaching staff over the past month. Emilien committed to play for Kansas on Monday, his 21st birthday. He said his connections with head coach Lance Leipold and wide receivers coach Terrance Samuel played a large role in that ...
Flavio Gonzalez, an offensive lineman who played the last two seasons at Butler Community College in El Dorado, has committed to play football at Kansas. Gonzalez, who graduated from Pueblo High in Tucson, Arizona, was listed by Butler at 6-foot-5 and 310 pounds. He had received more than a dozen scholarship offers in recent weeks and several from FBS programs, but Kansas was the only one from a Power 5 ...
The Kansas football team received a commitment Monday morning from former Minnesota wide receiver Douglas Emilien, whose addition will address a position of need for the Jayhawks. Emilien enrolled at Minnesota in 2020, redshirted his first season and appeared in just two games last season. He has four seasons of eligibility remaining because of the redshirt and the extra year granted by the NCAA to players at ...
It wasn't long after former Kansas guard Aniya Thomas formally entered the transfer portal on March 29 that new Missouri State coach Beth Cunningham reached out to recruit her. Cunningham, who earlier that month took over a team that is a perennial contender in the Missouri Valley Conference, had several scholarships available to give. Thomas, she quickly decided, needed one of them. "She is someone that was ...
Kansas' Kyron Johnson now knows where the next phase of his football career will unfold. The Philadelphia Eagles selected Johnson in the sixth round of the NFL Draft on Saturday after trading up seven spots to No. 181 to acquire him. Johnson became just the third Jayhawks player in the last seven years to be drafted by an NFL team, following Dorance Armstrong in 2018 and Hakeem Adeniji in 2020. "Man, I was so ...
A late surge by the Kansas men's rugby team wasn't enough to overcome an early deficit as it lost 22-17 to Fresno State in the Division 1AA championship game in Arlington, Texas, on Saturday afternoon. The Jayhawks, making their first appearance in the title game, fell behind 14-0 shortly before halftime, cut their deficit to five points with roughly 12 minutes remaining and had a quality scoring chance late ...