WRITER: Henry Greenstein

Offensive portal roundup: KU heavy on receiver, O-line offers

The transfer portal has ballooned to such an epic scale this year that it is nearly impossible to keep track of whom any given school is targeting. But via public posts about scholarship offers, it is at least possible to get a window into the sort of talent the Kansas football team is going after as it looks to replace a monumental senior class. On offense, that mostly means wide receivers and offensive ...

Defensive portal roundup: Linebacker and cornerback key for KU with select exceptions

As much talent as the Kansas football team has to replace on offense, it's hardly in an easy position on the other side of the ball entering the offseason. The Jayhawks have lost almost all of their linebacker production, with JB Brown, Cornell Wheeler and Taiwan Berryhill Jr. out of the picture, and will also move forward without a pair of multi-year consistent contributors at cornerback in Cobee Bryant and ...

Foster will return to KU in 2025

Kansas center Bryce Foster will be back with the Jayhawks for the 2025 season. He posted a picture from one of KU's 2024 games at Arrowhead Stadium on social media Thursday afternoon with the caption, "One more ride." The subject of some NFL Draft buzz after he started all 12 games for the Jayhawks with a team-high 764 snaps, finishing as the highest-graded center in the Big 12 on Pro Football Focus, Foster ...

KU coaches discuss implications of Nickens' multi-sport participation

One of the most intriguing members of Kansas football’s 2025 signing class owes his spot with the Jayhawks to a KU men’s basketball golf outing. Head coach Bill Self and his staff were on the links with 1993 World Series hero Joe Carter in Kansas City when the subject turned to Carter’s alma mater, Millwood High School in Oklahoma City. “He said, ‘Hey, there’s a two-sport guy down there that ...

Lubick back with KU as co-OC and tight ends coach

Updated 2:48 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10: The Kansas football team is headed for a reunion with one of the architects of its offensive renaissance under Lance Leipold. Matt Lubick, the current offensive coordinator at Nevada, will return to the Jayhawks as co-offensive coordinator and tight ends coach, Leipold announced on Tuesday afternoon. A 30-year coaching veteran, Lubick previously served as a senior analyst ...

Gage Keys returns to KU via portal

A year after leaving Kansas for Auburn, defensive tackle Gage Keys is headed back to Lawrence. He made the announcement on Tuesday afternoon, writing in a post on X, “My fault y’all … I was TRIPPIN !” Keys, who will be a redshirt senior in his final year of eligibility, recorded 21 tackles in his previous one-season stint with the Jayhawks in 2023, when he was part of KU’s rotation on the interior ...