Former Ball State defensive back Roman Pearson has committed to Kansas, he announced on Thursday morning. Pearson is a 6-foot-2, 198-pound outside corner who played in 12 games and started eight at the position for the Cardinals during the 2025 season. He finished with a Pro Football Focus grade of 62.6 and played 504 defensive snaps on the year. He is the first cornerback KU has acquired this offseason after ...
The Kansas football team has added an offensive lineman with a familiar name. Trezelle Jenkins Jr. announced on Thursday morning that he has committed to KU as a transfer from Wayne State, a Division II school in his hometown of Detroit. Jenkins is the son of the original Trezelle Jenkins, a former first-round pick of the Kansas City Chiefs’ at offensive tackle in the 1995 NFL Draft who had a brief ...
Kansas will have a new long snapper next season. The under-the-radar special-teams position has long been defined by continuity for the Jayhawks, who had plenty of consistency over the years with Luke Hosford and Emory Duggar. In 2026, though, they have a new veteran option at their disposal: Rino Monteforte. Monteforte, a transfer from Cal who started his career at Notre Dame, confirmed to the Journal-World ...
Kansas bolstered its secondary with two more young players on Thursday evening, as it added former Iowa State safety Khijohnn Cummings-Coleman and Mississippi State cornerback Elijah Cannon, both of whom announced their commitment decisions on social media. The Jayhawks are now up to two corners in the portal (Cannon and Ball State’s Roman Pearson) and three safeties (Cummings-Coleman, Jaden Harris of Georgia ...
Darryn Peterson scored a season-high 32 points and hit three free throws to force overtime on Tuesday night, Melvin Council Jr. carried the Jayhawks through the extra period, Tre White poured in a workmanlike 26 points, Jamari McDowell hit one of the biggest shots of the game when KU trailed TCU by nine points with just over a minute remaining and a previously quiet Flory Bidunga grabbed some pivotal offensive ...
The Kansas backfield added another key piece on Wednesday morning. Former Syracuse running back Yasin Willis, the Orange’s leading rusher in 2025, will join KU next season. He shared the news as part of a pair of collaborative posts on his Instagram page. The addition of Willis gives KU a bruising, big-bodied rusher to pair with the already-acquired Jalen Dupree from Colorado State, as the Jayhawks continue ...