Emmanuel Henderson Jr. entered the 2025 season with five career catches and six career kickoff returns over the course of three years at Alabama. Given the chance at Kansas to show what he could do on both offense and special teams during his senior season, Henderson rewarded the Jayhawks with 45 catches for 766 yards and five touchdowns through the air, plus an average of 23.9 yards per kick return with one ...
Kansas running back Johnny Thompson Jr. announced on Thursday afternoon that he intends to enter the transfer portal. Thompson, who spent three years at KU and is originally from Canoga Park, California, will have two seasons left to play. He carried the ball 24 times for 107 yards during his career as a Jayhawk, receiving some significant action in mop-up duty in a trio of blowout wins for KU early in the 2025 ...
Updated at 11:11 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2025. Kansas coach Lance Leipold and his counterpart at Kansas State, Chris Klieman, have often spoken over the years about their friendship. They share common roots as former Division III head coaches — Leipold at Wisconsin-Whitewater, Klieman at Loras — who worked their way up through the college football ranks to take over the premier programs in the Sunflower ...
Updated 4:19 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025: The Kansas football team made things official on Wednesday by signing 17 committed players for the 2026 class, including six Kansans, on the first day of the early signing period. In-state prospects linebacker Josh Galbreath (Lawrence), defensive end Hunter Higgins (Maize South), quarterback Jaylen Mason, wide receivers Tyren Parker (Shawnee Heights) and Nate Sims ...
To hear UConn coach Dan Hurley tell it, the driving force behind the Huskies’ second-half rebounding surge against Kansas on Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse was pain. Pain stemming from a realization that the Huskies’ lone previous loss on the year — a 71-67 defeat at home against Arizona on Nov. 19 — was largely a result of getting brutally outrebounded 43-23, and that UConn might be in for a similar fate ...
Kansas will be without star guard Darryn Peterson for the seventh straight game when it faces UConn on Tuesday night, KU coach Bill Self announced. Peterson has been dealing with a hamstring injury throughout the season and has not played since the Jayhawks traveled to North Carolina on Nov. 7. Self told reporters on Monday that Peterson had returned to practice, but that he would need "to test out medically ...