2024 Football Roster
Roster
Tabor Allen
- Position:
- Kicker
- Height:
- 6-1
- Weight:
- 200
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Mansfield Lakeridge HS
- Hometown:
- Mansfield, Texas
Get to Know Tabor ...
At what age did you start playing football and how did you get into football?
- I started playing at 13. I enjoyed playing at school with my friends so I decided to sign up for the team.
- My grandpa. He was a great role model and put his family first.
- My favorite football player growing up was, and still is, Dak Prescott. I am a big Cowboys fan.
Career Honors: 2021: Academic All-Big 12 Football First Team.
2024: Served as Kansas' primary place kicker, converting 40-of-42 (95.2 percent) on extra points and 12-of-15 (80%) on field goals... Lindenwood: Kicked off seven times for 455 yards and seven touchbacks ... Went 6-of-7 (85.7 percent) on extra point attempts... at Illinois: Converted on a 29-yard field goal ... Kicked off four times for 260 yards and three touchbacks ... Went 2-for-2 on extra point attempts ... UNLV: Went 2-for-2 on FG with 35-yard and 41-yard attempts ... Went 2-for-2 on extra point attempts ... Kicked off five times, all resulting in a touchback ... at West Virginia: Converted on all four of his XPA ... Kicked off five times for 324 yards and four touchbacks, averaging 64.8 yards a kick ... TCU: Went 2-for-2 on FG, converting from 24 and 41 yards ... Made 3-of-3 extra point attempts ... Kicked off six times for 387 yards and four touchbacks ... at Arizona State: Connected on 1-of-1 on field goals... Houston: Converted on 6-of-6 extra points and 1-of-1 field goals in the win over Houston... at Kansas State: Converted 3-of-4 extra points... Iowa State: Hit 6-of-6 on extra points and 1-of-2 on field goals in the win over Iowa State... at BYU: Connected on 2-of-2 extra points and 1-of-1 FG... Colorado: Was perfect, converting 4-of-4 extra points and 3-of-3 field goals in the win over Colorado... at Baylor: Was 1-of-2 FG and 2-of-2 on extra points.
2023: Was the kickoff man for the Jayhawks where he teed the ball up 77 times for Kansas, totaling 4,776 kick off yards, and 56 touchbacks.
2022: Tennessee Tech: Kicked off for the Jayhawks nine times, seven of them resulting in a touchback … Averaged 62.2 yards a kick … at West Virginia: Kicked off seven times for a total of 440 yards, averaging 62.9 yards with three touchbacks … at Houston: Totaled 561 yards on nine kickoffs against the Cougars … Five kicks resulted in touchbacks … Averaged 62.3 yards per kick … Duke: Logged 383 yards on six kickoffs in win over the Blue Devils … Three kickoffs resulted in a touchback … Averaged 63.8 yards/kick … Iowa State: Kicked off three times for 195 yards and three touchbacks … Averaged 65.0 yards/kick … TCU: Logged 331 yards on six kickoffs … Averaged 55.2 yards/kick against the Horned Frogs … Recorded a tackle (solo) … at Oklahoma: Kicked off 6 times against the Sooners, five resulting in a touchback … Averaged 65.0 yards/kick on 390 yards … at Baylor: Kicked off five times for 247 yards and two touchbacks, averaging 49.4 yards/kick … Oklahoma State: Kicked off eight times for 452 yards and five touchbacks … averaged 56.5 yards/kick … at Texas Tech: Kicked off five times for 325 yards … Averaged 65 yards/kick with four touchbacks … Texas: Kicked off three times for 189 yards, averaging 63 yards/kick with two touchbacks.
2021: Saw action in all 12 games as one of the Jayhawks kickers …Posted 52 kickoffs for 3177 yards, while averaging 61.1 yards per kick … Had 35 touchbacks … Also kicked off five times at Texas, totaling 514 yards.
2020: Saw playing time for the Jayhawks in their last six games of the season … Accumulated 943 yards on 18 kickoffs, good for an average of 52.4 yards … Had six touchbacks on those 18 kickoffs. at West Virginia: Made his debut as a Jayhawk in Morgantown … Kicked off four times for a total of 232 yards, good for an average of 58.0 yards with one touchback against the Mountaineers … at Kansas State: Totaled 169 yards on three kickoffs, good for a 56.3 yard average on the day in Manhattan … Iowa State: Totaled 105 yards on three kickoffs versus Iowa State, a 35.0-yard average on the day … at Oklahoma: Kicked off one time in Norman, which went for 40 yards, in making his fourth appearance of the season … TCU: Accumulated 204 yards on four kickoffs, good for an average of 51.0 yards per kick on the day … at Texas Tech: Averaged 64.3 yards per kickoff by totaling 193 yards on three kicks.
High School: Letterwinner in football and soccer at Mansfield Lakeridge High School, where he played under head coach Kirk Thor … Team was district champions in 2018 … He connected on 8-of-11 field goals while notching 42 touchbacks on kickoffs in 2020 … Was named District 7-6A special teams MVP in 2020 … Also named to Academy All-District all four years and was selected as Academy All-State in 2020 … Was named honorable mention All-District in soccer from 2016-18, and academic All-District from 2017-19.
Personal: Son of David and Jennifer Allen … Has one sibling, Caleb … Plans to major in finance.