Two of the least experienced quarterbacks on the Kansas football roster aren’t expected to be needed any time in the final weeks of the season. But that doesn’t mean freshmen Conrad Hawley and Ben Easters are taking an idle approach to their development. The two QBs KU signed in its 2021 recruiting class, both Hawley and Easters are redshirting during their first year with the Jayhawks. Offensive ...
Kansas football coaches don’t expect to know until Saturday whether quarterback Jason Bean will be able to start in the Jayhawks’ road game at Texas. Offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki, while speaking with reporters on a video call after practice Thursday, said Bean, who got hurt in the first half of KU’s loss to Kansas State this past weekend, is still considered “day to day” as he recovers. But ...
As the first season of a new coaching era for the Kansas football program nears its conclusion, head coach Lance Leipold and his longtime coordinators envision brighter Novembers ahead for the Jayhawks. There’s still time this month, KU’s coaches are quick to point out, to make this final stretch of the 2021 season more memorable than the bulk of September and October, which accounted for most of the ...
Three days out from Saturday’s road game at Texas, Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold said Wednesday night he still didn’t know whether starting quarterback Jason Bean will be available. Leipold reiterated his “we’ll have to see” stance on Bean’s status during his weekly radio show, “Hawk Talk,” and described the dual-threat junior QB as “questionable” to play against the ...
The No. 3-ranked Kansas basketball team lived up to its preseason billing in its season debut Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden, where the Jayhawks handled Michigan State, 87-74. A four-point game five minutes into the second half of the Champions Classic matchup in New York, the Jayhawks began to pull away as two of their starting guards led a surge. Senior guard Ochai Agbaji at times was unstoppable, ...
The arm injury that knocked super-senior defensive lineman Sam Burt out of the Kansas football starting lineup minutes into the season opener will actually end up extending the former walk-on’s college career. KU head coach Lance Leipold made it known Tuesday that Burt plans to use this as a redshirt season and return for one more year in 2022. A team captain for the Jayhawks (1-8 overall, 0-6 Big 12), Burt ...