No, the Kansas football team’s three-week nonconference schedule as a whole didn’t play out perfectly. But the Jayhawks’ victories over Central Michigan and Rutgers have allowed them to enter Big 12 play at Baylor on Saturday in a more ideal head space than seemed possible after their Week 1 home loss to Nicholls State. Especially for the players who have suffered through the program’s struggles the ...
Pooka Williams’ skills aren’t only dropping jaws around Lawrence. The freshman’s open-field speed, power, vision and agility, which have played a central role in consecutive victories for the Kansas football team, also are drawing the attention of college football evaluators nationwide. According to Pro Football Focus, the Jayhawks’ young offensive star is the third-best true freshman in all of FBS ...
Not long after the Kansas football team’s defense spent its second straight Saturday repeatedly heisting the ball from a nonconference opponent, someone asked redshirt senior Daniel Wise what’s different about the group this season. The stalwart defensive tackle and captain began his response with two words: “Nothing, really.” How could that be? In 2017, the Jayhawks ranked 100th or worse in the FBS in ...
If the undisclosed eligibility issue that kept Kansas running back Pooka Williams from playing in the football team’s season opener remains unresolved — head coach David Beaty won’t address its status — the matter, Beaty insists, is not one currently causing him grief. Asked during his weekly press conference on Tuesday whether the Jayhawks have been able to put Williams’ case behind them, Beaty first ...
Although he watched the entire second half of the Kansas football team’s home win over Rutgers from the sideline with coaches and reserves, senior quarterback Peyton Bender will keep his spot as the Jayhawks’ starting QB on Saturday at Baylor. Head coach David Beaty stated immediately after KU’s 55-14 romp over Rutgers that he didn’t want to say who would start at QB the following week. He provided an ...
When Daniel Wise hurt an ankle badly enough to limp off the field this past Saturday during the Kansas football team’s home game against Rutgers, the redshirt senior defensive tackle was adamant about checking back in. After some evaluation, halftime rest and a little convincing of his coaches, they caved. “All right, give it a shot,” Wise related of the response he got. The experiment lasted all of one ...