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Name: Ky Thomas (Double Transfer from Kansas/Minnesota)
College: Kent State
Number: 3
School Bio/Stats Link: HERE
Height: 5-11 Weight: 200
Position: Pos2:
Class/Draft Year: rSr/2025
40 Low: 4.52 40 Time: 4.62 40 High: 4.70
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Data Scout Notes: 2022 Co-Backup 2023: NAC...01-05-23 Transfer from Kansas...2022: NAC...2021: Transfer from Minnesota...NAC...2020: NAC
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Ky Thomas, Kent State, Player News
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The Kansas football team will be without transfer running back Ky Thomas next season. Thomas, a native of Topeka who played sparingly during the 2022 season because of injuries but held a key role in KU's Liberty Bowl appearance last month, announced Tue sday night that he was entering the transfer portal. Wherever the redshirt sophomore running back lands in the coming weeks will be his third school since graduating from Topeka High in 2020. Because of his COVID year, he will have three years of eligibi lity remaining at his new destination. He redshirted the 2020 season at Minnesota before playing for the Gophers in 2021 and playing at Kansas this season.Thomas' slow start was due in large part to the strong play of fellow-KU backs Devin Neal an d Daniel Hishaw. Thomas carried the ball just 11 times for 25 yards in the first three weeks and then missed two weeks with injury before returning in Week 6 and receiving 42 carries the rest of the way. That included 11 touches and two touchdowns in KU' s wild, triple-overtime loss to Arkansas in Memphis in late-December. What initially looked like an important pick-up at a position of need quickly turned into a situation where Thomas was fighting for playing time in a crowded running back room. - Lawre nce Journal World
(DS#132 RB) rSr/2025  RB Ky Thomas, Kent State
News Source: Lawrence Journal World
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Poised for a 2022 standout season: Minnesota transfer Ky Thomas and Nebraska transfer Sevion Morrison join Devin Neal in giving the Jayhawks one of the better running back groups in the Big 12 next season. They'll need all three of them to contribute, to o, given the mediocre play of the Kansas offensive line in recent years and lingering questions at quarterback. - AP College Football
(DS#132 RB) rSr/2025 RB Ky Thomas, Kent State
News Source: AP College Football
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While watching "Breaking Bad" for the first time last year, a particular scene caught P.J. Fleck's attention. The Minnesota coach had used television shows and movies - "Elf," "Full House" and "Family Matters" among them - as motivation in the past and t his one seemed a perfect fit for his defense. In it, Walter White rises in anger during a discussion with his wife, Skyler, explaining no one was going to come knocking on their door and shoot them. "I'm the one who knocks!" he shouts. So does Minnesota' s defense. Ky Thomas ran for 144 yards and a touchdown, Mar'Kiese Irving added 129 yards rushing and Minnesota shut down West Virginia to win the Guaranteed Rate Bowl 18-6 on Tuesday night. "We wanted to be the defense that knocks and I thought we did th at," Fleck said. "It was just kind of a theme our guys rallied around." Thomas and Irving became the Gophers' 1-2 punch after Mohamed Ibrahim and Trey Potts sustained season-ending injuries. The two running backs carried most of the load offensively agai nst West Virginia (6-7), accounting for 273 of Minnesota's 358 total yards. They were good, but Minnesota's defense was flat-out dominating. - Minnesota/AP College Football
(DS#132 RB) rSr/2025 RB Ky Thomas, Kent State
News Source: Minnesota/AP College Football
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Ky Thomas ran for 105 yards and a career-high two scores, Tanner Morgan threw two touchdown passes and Minnesota scored 14 points the final 46 seconds of the first half Saturday to pull away from Indiana 35-14. Minnesota (7-4, 5-3 Big Ten) ended a two-ga me losing streak. The Hoosiers (2-9, 0-7) have lost seven straight. Indiana started fast, capping an impressive opening drive with quarterback Donaven McCulley scooping up a fumbled snap and scoring from 11 yards out.Thomas' 2-yard TD run tied the score midway through the second quarter and his 1-yard run with 46 seconds left in the half gave Minnesota a 14-7 lead. The Gophers took control after Tyler Nubin picked off McCulley, a true freshman, and returned it to the Hoosiers 31-yard line. Three plays later, Tanner Morgan found Chris Autman-Bell for a 14-yard TD pass with 9 seconds left. Indiana never recovered and Morgan closed it out with a 9-yard TD pass to Autman-Bell in the third quarter. - Minnesota/AP College Football
(DS#132 RB) rSr/2025 RB Ky Thomas, Kent State
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Freshmen Ky Thomas and Mar'Keise Irving became the fourth and fifth different 100-yard rushers for Minnesota this season, as the Gophers gained 326 yards on the ground in a 34-16 trampling of Maryland on Saturday for their third straight victory. Thomas (21 carries, 139 yards) and Irving (15 carries, 105 yards) each had one of four rushing touchdowns for Minnesota (5-2, 3-1), which moved into a first-place tie with Iowa in the Big Ten West Division. Purdue and Wisconsin are one game back. Taulia Tagovai loa lost a fumble on the opening drive and completed 17 of 27 passes for 189 yards and a late touchdown to Marcus Fleming for the Terrapins (4-3, 1-3), who have lost three straight games by a combined score of 151-49.Thomas, Irving and Bryce Willi ams, who rushed for 48 yards and a score, are the only healthy scholarship running backs left on the roster for the Gophers, who lost star Mohamed Ibrahim in the opener and backup Trey Potts three weeks ago to season-ending injuries. Williams took the le ad last week in a win over Nebraska, becoming the third player to top the 100-yard rushing mark this year. Thomas and Irving gave the Gophers the first pair of 100-yard rushers in the same games since Rodney Smith and Shannon Brooks on Oct. 5, 2019, agai nst Illinois. Tanner Morgan went 8 for 12 for 125 yards passing, and backup quarterback Cole Kramer rushed for 30 yards and a touchdown. The Gophers didn't punt until 5:09 remained in the game. In three losses to the Terrapins since coach P.J. Fleck arri ved in 2017, the Gophers allowed an average of 39 points and 286 rushing yards. They beat the Terrapins handily in 2019 when they had six eventual NFL draft picks on their defense. There was no lower moment for Minnesota in the virus-altered 2020 season than the 45-44 overtime loss at Maryland, when the Terrapins stacked up 675 total yards. - Minnesota/AP College Football
(DS#132 RB) rSr/2025 RB Ky Thomas, Kent State
News Source: Minnesota/AP College Football
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