The conclusion of the 2024 NFL Draft left a slew of former Kansas football players undrafted and looking for opportunities to continue their football careers. The San Francisco 49ers took offensive lineman Dominick Puni in the third round and the Chicago Bears selected Austin Booker in the fifth, but that meant that more than a dozen KU products who participated in the Big 12 Conference Pro Day back in March ...
Updated 1:40 p.m. Friday: The Kansas men’s basketball team continues to bolster its roster with big-name transfers, cultivating levels of depth far beyond anything it had during the 2023-24 campaign, and on Friday former Alabama wing Rylan Griffen signed to join the Jayhawks next season. Griffen, who will have two years of eligibility left to play, was a key part of the Crimson Tide’s run to its first-ever ...
Updated 1:42 p.m. Friday: Kansas will get its second-team All-American back for a second season. Center Hunter Dickinson announced in a social media post Friday that he will use his fifth and final year of eligibility and return to KU for the 2024-25 season. The announcement was prompted in rather lighthearted fashion by a post on X from head coach Bill Self — “Hey @H_Dickinson24, have you made a decision ...
Former Kansas offensive lineman Dominick Puni became the highest-drafted Jayhawk since 2008 when he went in the third round to the San Francisco 49ers at No. 86 overall. Puni came to KU from NCAA Division II Central Missouri in 2022 and ended up starting all 25 possible games for the Jayhawks before he opted out of the Guaranteed Rate Bowl. In 2023 he served as the Jayhawks’ left tackle and earned ...
By the end of Friday, Kansas will almost certainly have a new highest-drafted football player since 2008. Offensive lineman Dominick Puni is expected to go by the end of the third round Friday night, and defensive end Austin Booker could follow soon after or even jump his teammate. KU has not produced an athlete selected in the top three rounds of the NFL Draft since Aqib Talib went 20th overall to the Tampa ...
Kansas will travel to Omaha to face Creighton in this year's edition of the Big 12-Big East Battle men's basketball game. The Jayhawks will face the Bluejays on Dec. 4, according to a Big 12 Conference press release distributed Thursday morning. KU is 11-6 in its history against Creighton and has not lost in the series since 1949; this is also the first time the two teams will play in Omaha since 1951. Their ...