Kansas Jayhawks · S RoomS

#3 Corey Gordon

Class  RS SR/TRFrom  Louisville (transfer)Ht / Wt  6'2" · 197 lbHometown  Oklahoma City, OK · Putnam City West HS

Depth-chart placement

Current role

SS1

Placement

Starter

Room

Safety

Experience

5-SR

Last change

Updated 2026-07-29

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S room context

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Corey Gordon holds the SS · Starter spot in Kansas Jayhawks’s safety room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

SS · StarterCorey GordonStarter

FS · StarterTaylor DavisStarter

NB · StarterSyeed GibbsStarter

SS · BackupKhijohnn Cummings-ColemanBackup

FS · BackupJaden HarrisBackup

NB · BackupMason EllisBackup

Transfer history

2026Louisville→Kansas Jayhawks

Background & career

Corey Gordon is a safety from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who prepped at Putnam City West High School. A three-star recruit, Gordon played at Baylor from 2022 to 2024 before transferring to Louisville for the 2025 season. At Louisville, he appeared in all 13 games with 12 starts, recording 53 tackles and 3.0 tackles for loss. He posted a career-high nine tackles at SMU and eight tackles in the Boca Raton Bowl against Toledo. Gordon now plays for Kansas as a redshirt senior/transfer.

Baylorthrough 2024

Louisville2025

Kansas2026 — present

Previous schoolLouisvilleRecruiting3-star · No. 735 nationalOriginOklahoma City, OK · Putnam City West HS