KJ Henson holds the DT · Starter spot in West Virginia Mountaineers’s defensive tackle room. Where he sits among the room’s front-line roles:

KJ Henson is a defensive tackle for West Virginia from Annapolis, Maryland, where he prepped at Old Mill High School and earned first-team all-county honors. He completed his first two seasons at Hutchinson Community College, redshirting in 2023 before appearing in nine games as a redshirt freshman in 2024 with 20 tackles, six sacks, and seven tackles for loss. In 2025, Henson registered 45 tackles, 5.5 sacks, 10.5 tackles for loss, and five quarterback hurries across 11 games for an 11-1 Hutchinson squad that reached the NJCAA national championship game. He earned All-Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference First Team honors and 2025 NJCAA DI All-American Honorable Mention recognition.