When he concluded his high school career at Niles North in Skokie, Illinois, Jailen Butler would have considered himself more of a basketball player than a football player. He didn’t start playing football until his senior year of high school, and his allegiance to basketball persisted well ...

Updated 8:48 a.m. Wednesday, April 8, 2026: The general consensus around the Kansas football program seems to be that working alongside Andy Kotelnicki isn’t all that different the second time around. “You jump right back into it,” passing game coordinator Jim Zebrowski said. But there ...

Jim Zebrowski keeps looking around for former Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels but finding only a freshman quarterback with a homophonous name. “He’s been around so long, I’m like, ‘Where is Daniels?’” Zebrowski said of the four-year team captain. “Oh, Jaylen Mason. OK, got ...

Long snapper Rino Monteforte received his first Division I scholarship offer on July 26, 2019, from the University at Buffalo after he put on a masterful performance at one of the school’s kicking camps. “He was unbelievable,” recalled Taiwo Onatolu, who was the Bulls’ special teams ...

Last July, Matt Gill moved from Sydney to Melbourne to train in a sport he had never previously played at a newly established punting academy that had not yet produced a player. By the end of October, Gill was receiving interest from American colleges, and by January he was signed to play at ...

Leroy Harris III’s performance as a sophomore in 2025 might have come out of the blue for Kansas fans, and perhaps even for his own coaches, after he arrived as an unheralded transfer from Chattanooga. Not so much for Harris himself. “It was never a surprise,” he said. The 6-foot-5 ...