Football remains a long way away, but rookie minicamp season is in full swing, and two additional Jayhawks have earned recent opportunities to prove their worth to NFL teams. Longtime Kansas running back Daniel Hishaw Jr. has been invited to the Kansas City Chiefs’ rookie minicamp that ...

Any given spring brings a flurry of number changes to the Kansas football roster, some more meaningful than others. In the case of junior cornerback Jalen Todd, who wore No. 26 throughout his first two seasons in Lawrence, switching to No. 1 was an intentional tribute to one of his ...

Wide receiver Nahzae Cox had a lot to learn about the Kansas football program when he got recruited by the Jayhawks in the transfer portal this winter. Sure, he knew about KU basketball, having grown up watching players like Devonte’ Graham and Ben McLemore. And he had even tuned in for a ...

After a pair of Jayhawks were selected in the later rounds of the 2026 NFL Draft, plenty more hoped to sign deals as undrafted free agents in the hours and days that followed. A handful of former Kansas players inked deals with teams in the wake of the draft: quarterback Jalon Daniels, ...

The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks made Emmanuel Henderson Jr. the first Kansas wide receiver selected in the NFL Draft since 2010 by picking him in the sixth round at No. 199 overall on Saturday afternoon. It's the second straight year in which Seattle has picked a Jayhawk in ...

The San Francisco 49ers made offensive lineman Enrique Cruz Jr. the first Kansas football player selected in the 2026 NFL Draft on Saturday afternoon. San Francisco picked Cruz at No. 179 overall with the third-to-last pick of the fifth round. In doing so, the 49ers went back to the well for ...