As Kansas coach Lance Leipold noted on Friday, it’s nothing new for the Jayhawks to make “late- or mid-to-late-camp adjustments” to their offensive line in service of putting the best possible group on the field by the time the season opener rolls around. A year ago, Amir Herring emerged ...
Kansas defensive tackle Eamon Smalls has garnered his fair share of nicknames over the years, and he’s certainly gotten accustomed to having “The Sandlot” quoted in his direction: ”You’re killing me, Smalls!” But nicknaming him after the Notorious B.I.G.’s second stage name ...
A host of Kansas football players tried their hand at saying “Rock Chalk” in British accents in a social media video KU posted in the spring, but only one actually called up an English parent to do it on his behalf. That was KU kicker Martin Connington, whose father’s side of the family ...
Twelve snaps on special teams were a valuable part of Kansas linebacker Malachi Curvey’s first year of college football. “It was good to get a feel for the game speed,” the redshirt freshman said. Like so many other freshmen in recent years, however, Curvey was limited to four games — ...
As a Cleveland native, Kansas passing game coordinator Jim Zebrowski has stuck with the Browns through thick and thin. That included the 2015 season in which John DeFilippo — by that point a veteran NFL quarterbacks coach whom Zebrowski had met through a mutual friend — served as their ...
Targeting penalties assessed in the second half of a game will no longer require the offending player to sit out the first half of his team's next game, offensive pass interference will become a 10-yard penalty and the little-used fair catch kick will be introduced to college football. Those ...