When Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold and his staff finally got to start evaluating players during practices in August, Leipold figured the Jayhawks would find a way to use Torry Locklin. He just wasn’t sure how. “It was kind of like trying to find him a home,” Leipold said of Locklin, a redshirt sophomore who came to KU as a quarterback in 2019 and was at receiver earlier this year, when the head ...
A starting tight end for the Kansas football team once upon a time, back when he was a true freshman in 2017, redshirt senior offensive lineman Earl Bostick Jr. has played for three different head coaches since he got to Lawrence. A starter up front on the O-line beginning in last season (initially at right tackle), Bostick settled in at left tackle late in 2020, and that’s where the 6-foot-6, 290-pounder ...
Kansas football coach Lance Leipold has had some fiery reactions to officials’ calls in Kansas’ first games of the season — and his players are taking notice. Take Saturday’s game against Baylor, when starting quarterback Jason Bean got tripped up by a defender out of bounds. Leipold animatedly argued that a flag should’ve been thrown for a late hit. And Bean said that after the game, when he saw a ...
The first high school recruit to publicly commit to Kansas football after Lance Leipold took over the program, Texas prep cornerback Jalon Peoples backed out of that decision on Tuesday. Peoples, rated a three-star prospect in the Class of 2022 by Rivals, announced on Twitter his decision to decommit from KU and reopen his recruitment. The standout defensive back from Cedar Hill, Texas, picked up several ...
Though the abrupt departure of Velton Gardner caught the Kansas football staff by surprise this week, head coach Lance Leipold explained Tuesday how the Jayhawks plan to quickly move forward and ask more of true freshman Devin Neal at running back. Leipold said Gardner, KU’s starting running back the first three games of the season, had officially left the program. “I guess the best way to say it is he ...
Three games into his junior season, running back Velton Gardner is ready to move on from the Kansas football program. According to various reports Monday, including from Rivals and 247 Sports, Gardner, the Jayhawks’ starting running back each of the past three weeks, entered his name in the NCAA’s transfer portal. Though Gardner came into the season as KU’s No. 1 running back, the junior from Dallas had ...