The job isn’t done yet for Les Miles and his Kansas football staff, but the coaches now have 25 commitments lined up for their 2020 recruiting class. A three-star cornerback from Shreveport, La., Tanner Hooker allowed the Jayhawks to achieve that milestone Wednesday evening, when he made public his plans to join the fray. “I’m excited to announce that I’m committed to the University of Kansas,” ...
A homegrown University of Kansas junior from the small city of Abilene, Sam Burt is no longer a walk-on with the Jayhawks’ football program. Head coach Les Miles informed Burt of that news while meeting with the team Wednesday. In a video of the surprise exchange between the head coach and the defensive lineman posted to the football program’s social media platforms, Miles presented Burt, a 6-foot-4, ...
As the competition for the starting quarterback job continues to unfold during preseason football practices, a young QB is finding ways to make his mark, too, even if that doesn’t vault him into the marquee battle. On a roster that features a mass of quarterbacks beyond the frontrunners for the depth chart’s No. 1 spot, junior Thomas MacVittie and senior Carter Stanley, the only other QB head coach Les ...
It will be a long time before Ben Easters plays college football. But as of Tuesday evening the high school quarterback from Brownsburg, Ind., plans to do so at the University of Kansas. Easters, a pro-style QB in the Class of 2021, announced his commitment to Les Miles and the Jayhawks via Twitter, in a post that included a photo of him wearing a blue KU uniform during his recent visit to Lawrence for a summer ...
A three-year starter on the Kansas football team’s offensive line, senior left tackle Hakeem Adeniji earned a spot on the preseason watch list for the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award. Candidates for the award have to be born in Texas, a graduate of a Texas high school or a player for a college football program in the Lone Star State. A graduate of Garland High, in Texas, Adeniji and other candidates for the ...
In between his stops in Stillwater, Okla., first as an assistant coach and later as the man in charge at Oklahoma State, Les Miles spent three seasons working in the NFL. It was then, as a tight ends coach for the Dallas Cowboys from 1998 through 2000, that Miles developed a deeper appreciation for the work that bridges the gap from offense to defense and vice versa. “I have always been a special teams ...