The NFL Draft can be exceptionally difficult to predict. In the days leading up to last year’s draft, after Kansas had graduated a memorable and extremely talented senior class, it appeared a virtual certainty that four KU players would get selected, matching the program’s high-water mark ...
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Fernando Mendoza and Diego Pavia pulled off an unprecedented double at the Heisman Trophy ceremony in December. It marked the first time in the award's history that two Latino players were finalists. Even more notable: Mendoza, of Indiana, joined Jim Plunkett and Bryce ...
Michigan State transfer David Santiago still thinks highly of his defensive coordinator with the Spartans, Joe Rossi. Santiago said he thought he became a lot smarter as a player and as a student of the game during his year in East Lansing, Michigan. But during his time at the school, he also ...
It’s been a long time since Kansas fielded a group of defensive tackles that didn’t include both Tommy Dunn Jr. and D.J. Withers — so long that it predates Jim Panagos’ arrival as a member of Lance Leipold’s coaching staff. Kenean Caldwell, for his part, had been around so long as to ...
It certainly helped Kansas’ cause in Kory Amachree's recruitment that Amachree grew up around wide receivers coach Terrence Samuel’s family when Samuel was at Michigan State, and that his older sister Kaema was friends with Samuel’s daughter Brooklyn, and that he himself was friends with ...
If you want to get to know new Kansas running back Yasin Willis by watching his Syracuse highlights, you need only watch his very first carry of the 2025 season. Tennessee defensive end Joshua Josephs — 6-foot-3, 240 pounds — works around a block and meets Willis a yard behind the line of ...