Kansas football’s offensive coaches think they have three perfectly capable running backs , all effective in their own way and all viable threats to break open a drive with a big play. But junior Khalil Herbert just might prove to be the strongest and most complete back in the bunch. With 19 games of experience behind him, including two monster outings as a sophomore, when he combined for 428 rushing yards ...
If you thought leading not only the Big 12 but all of FBS with 7.6 solo tackles per game or setting a Kansas football single-season record with 25.0 tackles for loss in 2017 would be enough to satisfy Joe Dineen, then you just don’t know Joe Dineen. A preseason All-Big 12 first-team selection leading into this, his redshirt senior season with the Jayhawks, Dineen would like to contribute even more to his ...
Easily the skill player most feared by Kansas football opponents, senior receiver Steven Sims Jr. already ranks fifth in program history with 2,049 career receiving yards The dynamic 5-foot-10, 176-pound wideout from Houston also is third all-time at KU with 161 career receptions and tied for sixth in the Jayhawks’ record books with 15 career touchdown catches. Sims’ seven 100-yard receiving games, all in ...
To simply call Daniel Wise a returning starter, redshirt senior defensive tackle and Kansas football leader doesn’t really do him justice. A preseason first-team All-Big 12 choice, the 6-foot-3, 290-pound Wise proved to be a force on the Jayhawks’ D-line in 2017, racking up 53 total tackles, 16.0 tackles for loss, 7.0 sacks and five quarterback hurries. Now, with Dorance Armstrong Jr. playing in the NFL ...
— Kansas vs. Nicholls State • 6 p.m. kickoff at Kansas David Booth Memorial Stadium • Game-time forecast: 90 degrees, mostly sunny, 7 percent chance of rain • TV: Jayhawk TV (KCMI: 38 the Spot, in Lawrence) • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 — Log on to KUsports.com for our live game blog and follow our coverage team on Twitter: @KUSports, @BentonASmith, @TomKeeganLJW and @SJacksonLJW Keys for ...
University of Kansas safety Mike Lee knows too much about football players from his hometown of New Orleans to disregard the Jayhawks’ season-opening opponent, Nicholls State. The Colonels, ranked No. 17 in the FCS preseason coaches poll, have 32 players from The Big Easy and surrounding communities, including two of Lee’s former high school teammates. “Seems like Mike knows everybody,” KU head coach ...