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Marshall linebacker Jibreel Al-Amin is pictured during a game against Georgia Southern on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025, in Huntington, W.Va.

The run on linebackers for the Kansas football team continued on Friday morning, as Marshall transfer Jibreel Al-Amin committed to KU, his agent Hutton Reed confirmed to the Journal-World.

Listed at 6-foot-3 and 205 pounds, Al-Amin played the first three years of his career with Jacksonville State and the fourth with the Thundering Herd before entering the portal a second time and moving to the power-conference level with the Jayhawks.

He becomes the fifth overall linebacker KU has acquired in the transfer portal, following Daveon “Bam” Crouch (Boston College), Quincy Davis (New Mexico State), Landyn Watson (Kentucky) and Jaron Willis (South Carolina). The Jayhawks correspondingly had previously had five players at the position announce plans to transfer out: Logan Brantley (transferred to Boise State), Jon Jon Kamara (Wisconsin), Trey Lathan, Joseph Sipp Jr. and JaCorey Stewart (Florida International).

Al-Amin is from Woodbridge, Virginia, and attended Freedom High School. In his first year with Jacksonville State, playing for now-West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez, he appeared in two games and redshirted; as a redshirt freshman, he played in every game on a mixture of defense and special teams and recorded 16 tackles with a sack.

Al-Amin’s final season with the Gamecocks came in 2024, and he saw time in nine games overall with starts in the conference championship and a bowl game. With 197 defensive snaps, according to Pro Football Focus, he slightly improved his productivity with 23 tackles, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery.

For his fourth of a possible five seasons, Al-Amin moved on to Marshall, a school that had once recruited him out of high school. This time around, he got 517 snaps on defense and 577 overall with starts in seven of the Thundering Herd’s 12 games and 56 tackles, including 5.5 for loss, with two passes defensed and a forced fumble.

He will now have the opportunity to attempt to carve out a role in a newly crowded group of linebackers in Lawrence.