IRVING, Texas -- The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced Wednesday that Kansas is represented by 22 individuals selected to the 2025 NFF Hampshire Honor Society, the most in FBS.
Kansas is represented in the 2025 NFF Hampshire Society by Grayden Addison, Tabor Allen, JB Brown, Logan Brown, Cobee Bryant, Shane Bumgardner, OJ Burroughs, Jared Casey, Jalon Daniels, Dylan Downing, Emory Duggar, Devin Dye, Michael Ford Jr., Jayson Gilliom, Luke Hosford, Trevor Kardell, Torry Locklin, Landon Nelson, Cole Petrus, Quentin Skinner, Trevor Wilson and Dylan Wudke.
Under head coach Lance Leipold, Kansas football has set GPA program records in both the fall and spring semesters and been above a 3.0 GPA for six consecutive semesters. The Jayhawks have also had five players named College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America since 2022.
The NFF Hampshire Honor Society is comprised of college football student-athletes from all divisions of play who maintained an undergraduate cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or better and were either starters or significant contributors throughout the 2024 season. Selections must have been either a senior player in 2024 who will graduate during the spring or summer of 2025 and just completed his final year of playing eligibility in 2024; or a graduated player who has been out of high school at least three years.
Kansas’ 22 selections are among a record 2,532 players from 339 schools qualified for membership in 2025, marking the largest class in the program’s 19-year history. Since its inception, the initiative has honored 20,946 student-athletes. This year’s members represented six divisions: 689 from the FBS, 549 from the FCS, 212 from Division II, 978 from Division III, 58 from the NAIA, and 46 sprint football players. They hailed from schools in every state and the District of Columbia—except Alaska, which does not sponsor an eligible college football program. The FBS cohort came from 120 schools, reflecting a 90 percent participation rate.
The NFF Hampshire Honor Society capitalizes on the NFF’s National Scholar-Athlete program by greatly expanding the number of scholar-athletes the NFF can recognize each year. The program further strengthens the organization’s leadership role in encouraging academic performance by the student-athletes at the 774 colleges and universities with football programs nationwide.