KU quarterbacks Jake Heaps (right), Michael Cummings and Blake Jablonski work throwing drills during Friday's practice.

Day 2 of the Kansas University football program’s fall camp has come and gone and I left practice with a couple more early observations.

In keeping with the spirit of yesterday’s season-opening blog, let’s take a quick look at a few more newcomers today as well as a couple of other interesting tidbits that jumped out at me during the 20 minutes we were out there.

• By far the player who jumped out at me the most today that I did catch yesterday was wide receiver Mark Thomas. Listed at 6-foot, 210 pounds, Thomas is every bit of that. The Nassau Community College graduate has thick, powerful legs and looks like he could do some damage both after the catch and in blocking. They were just doing basic drills against no defense so it’s hard to tell how physical Thomas really is. But if he’s even half as physical as he appears, he’ll be a load for opposing defenses.

• Sticking at wide receiver, I got my first look at Nick Harwell today. He’s smaller — at least shorter — than I expected but the roster says 6-1, 193 and we know KU coach Charlie Weis does not fudge on those measurements. Forget physical appearance for a minute, though. Harwell carries himself like the polished and experienced receiver he is. He ran mostly with the second group today — opposite Josh Ford — and he had great bounce, which led me to believe that he’s not going to let the fact that he can’t play this year keep him from getting better and helping the Jayhawks.

• Coach Weis told me on Wednesday not to make a big deal out of the fact that offensive tackle Zach Fondal (again, pronounced Fawn-Doll) would spend some time at left tackle and some time at right tackle throughout camp while the team attempts to build some depth at both positions and waits for the arrival of juco tackle Pearce Slater, who should be in camp tomorrow. So I won’t. But it was worth noting that Fondal ran drills as a right tackl with the No. 1 unit today. Riley Spencer started there yesterday. Not worth making too much out of it. Maybe they’re just alternating every other day. But this much is certain; if Fondal wasn’t at least someone they thought could compete for that spot you can bet they’d have somebody else in there.

• It’ll be interesting to see how long it lasts, but I caught another “Start from the bottom” reference in one of the songs that roared over the speakers at camp today. That’s two days of practice and two musical references to KU’s position as the predicted cellar-dweller in the Big 12.

• Another musical note: There must have been something wrong with the first song on today’s practice playlist because it was all treble and sounded awful. The guy in charge of the music quickly caught in and skipped ahead to the next track, but not before hearing a chorus of boos from the players during stretching.

• I’m always a big fan of checking out who the team leaders are and since captains have not been announced yet the best place to check this out is warm-ups. Which guys go first in sprints or stand in the first line during stretching? The answer? A ton. Ben Heeney, Jake Heaps, Jake Love, Keon Stowers, Ben Goodman, Pat Lewandowski, Cassius Sendish, Justin McCay, Dexter Linton, Taylor Cox, Christian Matthews, Trevor Pardula and Riley Spencer held down the first line. Remember, football fields are pretty wide.

• Finally, I think it’s noteworthy that guys are going all out out there so far in camp, even during the simulated offensive snaps the team runs at the beginning of the positional drills period. It would be real easy to jog out to your position or up to the line of scrimmage, but, for the most part, these guys are sprinting to their spots to get lined up. There’s been a lot of talk about the defense playing faster, but it looks like that may be a focal point for the offense, too.

More tomorrow.

In case you missed my video from Day 1, check it out:

http://playvideo.co/058ddc60-b62f-4e0d-8a6e-60bc5060f5ec