Kentucky Wildcats · RB RoomRB

#1 CJ Baxter

Class  RS JR/TRFrom  Texas (transfer)Ht / Wt  6'1" · 230 lbHometown  Boynton Beach, FL · Edgewater

Depth-chart placement

Current role

RB1

Placement

Starter

Room

Running Back

Experience

4-JR

Last change

Updated 2026-07-29

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RB room context

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CJ Baxter holds the RB · Starter spot in Kentucky Wildcats’s running back room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

RB · StarterCJ BaxterStarter

RB · BackupJovantae BarnesBackup

Transfer history

2026Texas→Kentucky Wildcats

Background & career

CJ Baxter is a 6'1", 230-pound running back from Boynton Beach, FL, who attended Edgewater High School. A five-star prospect ranked 18th overall in the 2023 recruiting class with a rating of 0.9868, Baxter transferred to Kentucky as a redshirt junior. He wears jersey number 1 for the Wildcats.

Texas2023 – 2025

Kentucky2026 — present

Previous schoolTexasRecruiting5-star · No. 18 nationalOriginBoynton Beach, FL · Edgewater