WRITER: Benton Smith

3 keys for KU football at Iowa State

— Kansas (1-3 overall, 0-1 Big 12) at Iowa State (2-2, 0-1) • 6 p.m. kickoff, Jack Trice Stadium, in Ames, Iowa • Game-time forecast: 74 degrees, cloudy, 47% chance of rain • TV: FOX Sports 1 • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 Keys for Kansas 1. Don’t get steamrolled by Breece Hall Considered nearly a 35-point underdog by oddsmakers in Las Vegas, the Kansas football team’s chances of competing ...

Jayhawks plan to rotate 3 safeties in 1st half at ISU while Kenny Logan Jr. sits

Anyone within earshot of Kansas football veteran Kenny Logan Jr. Thursday morning found out how much he is not looking forward to missing the first half of the Jayhawks’ Saturday game at Iowa State. That’s when defensive coordinator Brian Borland shared that Logan vowed he will “never get another targeting penalty as long as he lives.” A hit Logan, one of KU’s team leaders and a junior starting ...

Q & A with KU football WR Trevor Wilson

Trevor Wilson gave the Kansas football offense a much-needed boost at Duke this past weekend, with his five receptions and 122 receiving yards. But there was one catch in particular that Wilson and everyone around the program will remember for a long time. On a bomb from quarterback Jason Bean late in the second quarter, a Wilson reception looked unlikely before the redshirt sophomore wideout reached around his ...

KU football defense lagging in sack production

As the Kansas football team moves past its nonconference schedule and into the awaiting Big 12 gauntlet, the defense’s lack of sack production is among the coaching staff’s assorted concerns. The Jayhawks (1-3 overall, 0-1 Big 12) went sackless in each of their last two losses and are averaging only 0.5 sacks per game — ranking them 127th out of 130 FBS teams — through four weeks. “We’ve got to do ...

QB Jason Bean is KU football's leading rusher — for now

A third of the way through the season, quarterback Jason Bean leads the Kansas football team in rushing. But if the Jayhawks’ offense continues making the progress the coaches and players have in mind, a running back will hold that distinction before long. Now in his ninth season working as an offensive coordinator for head coach Lance Leipold, Andy Kotelnicki said he’s not used to having a QB as the ...

3-star Texas prep Jacobe Chester decommits from KU football

The Kansas football program’s 2022 recruiting class lost its second prospect in a week on Tuesday, when Texas prep Jacobe Chester announced he had decommitted from KU. Rated a three-star athlete by Rivals, Chester called his recruitment “100% open” in a tweet announcing his decision to back out with the Jayhawks. Chester gave his nonbinding pledge to KU back in early March, when Les Miles was still the ...