It’s not often that the University of Kansas football program can boast it had players selected in back-to-back NFL drafts. By the end of this weekend, though, the Jayhawks should be able to make that claim. A year after defensive end Dorance Armstrong ended the team’s two-year drought at the draft when Dallas chose him in the fourth round, his former KU teammate on the defensive line, Daniel Wise, ...
Since its inception in 2018, college football’s transfer portal has yet to lure any of the University of Kansas football program’s prominent players away from Lawrence with the idea of playing somewhere else, where the grass or artificial turf is greener. Even so, the Jayhawks’ head coach, Les Miles, didn’t come across as a supporter of the portal’s existence during his appearance on the Big 12 ...
With so many rotation players from the Kansas basketball team transferring, declaring for the draft or testing the NBA waters it seemed a safe bet that Udoka Azubuike, who dipped his sizable toes into the pre-draft process a year ago, might not be around for the 2019-20 season, either. Unfortunately for the center from Delta, Nigeria, his still mending right wrist led him to stick around. This is, of course, ...
A defensive back whose path through the college football ranks began at the junior college level, Davon Ferguson arrived at the University of Kansas in the spring of 2018 confident that his playmaking ability would get him on the field sooner rather than later. At the time, the Jayhawks had depth issues at safety, making it seem all the more likely Ferguson, a three-star juco prospect after one season at ...
On the same afternoon that Kansas basketball coaches and players learned center Udoka Azubuike will be back for his senior season, the Jayhawks missed out on a highly regarded prep guard who could have complemented the 7-footer inside. Graded as a four-star shooting guard in the Class of 2019, Cassius Stanley announced Monday his decision to play college basketball at Duke. Rated the No. 33 prospect in the ...
On the job at the University of Kansas for a little more than five months, head football coach Les Miles repeatedly has made clear his plan to win over as many local prospects as possible while rebuilding the program. Miles’ first recruiting class included three signees from the Sunflower State. Though the 2020 class is in its early stages, three out of the five prospects who have already committed to KU ...