Lance Leipold and the Kansas Jayhawks have officially entered the Top 20 for best transfer portal classes this offseason, and on Friday, they kept things rolling.
The Jayhawks landed their second portal commit of the day with the addition of Kentucky defensive end transfer Caleb Redd.
Redd, a 6-foot-3 pass rusher from St. Louis, Missouri, spent his freshman year with Kentucky, where he didn’t see the field much. He recorded just one tackle during his time with the program before entering the transfer portal.
Coming out of DeSmet High School in the Class of 2024, Redd was listed as a three-star prospect by the 247Sports index and the nation’s 849th-ranked player. He also checked in as the 57th-ranked player at his position and the 12th-ranked player in the state of Missouri.
With the addition, Kansas has now added the second-most prospects of any team in the transfer portal, trailing just Texas Tech who has added 16.
The transfer portal officially opened on Monday, December 9, 2024, and will remain open until Saturday, December 28, with an exception for players on teams who play bowl games after the window closes. According to NCAA data, 2,273 FBS football players entered the transfer portal in 2023-24 school year, with 1,558 (68.5%) undergraduates and 715 (31.5%) graduate transfers. Of the entrants, 57% reported that they enrolled in another school, 8% withdrew their names from the portal, and 35% are still active, transferred to a non-NCAA school, or left their sport.
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