Brandon White entered the Vanier Family Football Complex on Tuesday. The 5-foot-7, 168-pound fifth-year senior transfer from Hawaii, who previously spent three seasons at Kentucky, and who set track records while at Archbishop Moeller High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, probably didn't know it. Or maybe he did. On a Kansas State roster full of new faces and exciting talents and featuring players from the east coast to Hawaii, White is one of the guys.
It's a bitterly cold evening in Manhattan on January 26 and a snowstorm will blanket the Flint Hills later in the night, as Wendell Gregory, who moved into his new home less than two weeks prior, begins to talk. For the next 20 minutes, the 6-foot-3, 265-pound sophomore transfer from Oklahoma State, opens the door to his world, his life and his goals, as one of the most highly sought-after transfers for the 2026 football season, and as top candidate to become the next great pass rusher at Kansas State.
He's the seventh-fastest player in Kansas State history to reach 1,000 career rushing yards and his 5.37 yards per attempt ranks seventh as well. At a time when junior running back Joe Jackson is eager to flourish even more for the Wildcats, new head coach Collin Klein and his dangerous offensive attack that features a strong running game seems to have arrived just in time.
The attention is everywhere as Avery Johnson in his bright suit and lavender tie journeys underneath the lights from radio station to podcast to radio station to podcast, station to station, slapping on headphones and moments peeling them off his head, at Big 12 Football Media Days at the Ford Center in Frisco, Texas.
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