A super-senior currently playing his fifth season with the Kansas football program, Kyron Johnson through two games is proving to be one of the Jayhawks’ most important and impactful players. A 6-foot-1, 235-pound veteran from Arlington, Texas, who spent previous seasons as an outside linebacker or a D-end/linebacker hybrid, Johnson already has contributed 14 total tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, 1.5 sacks, ...
The Kansas football coaches asked far more of running back Devin Neal in Week 2 than they did in the Jayhawks’ opener. So much so that the true freshman became the featured back for the offense on its second possession at Coastal Carolina, with Neal seven days removed from his one-carry, one-yard college debut. Their trust in Neal, a 5-foot-11, 210-pound back from Lawrence High, became evident once the ...
Following a brief appearance for Amauri Pesek-Hickson late in the Kansas football team’s road loss at Coastal Carolina this past week, head coach Lance Leipold hopes the redshirt freshman running back can keep easing his way into a larger workload moving forward. Pesek-Hickson, who wasn’t available for the Jayhawks during their Week 1 home win over South Dakota due to injury, didn’t make his season debut ...
As his Kansas football team prepares this week for its Big 12 opener, head coach Lance Leipold thinks some special teams miscues from the Jayhawks’ loss at Coastal Carolina in Week 2 are repairable. Few plays during the Friday night loss in Conway, S.C., stood out as much as a KU punt that the Chanticleers not only blocked, but also turned into a special teams touchdown with a recovery in the end ...
The Kansas football team could be without starting offensive lineman Colin Grunhard again this week, when the Jayhawks open Big 12 play. Head coach Lance Leipold said Monday that Grunhard, who was unavailable to play in the Jayhawks’ loss at Coastal Carolina on Friday due to a lingering injury, was considered “doubtful” for KU’s upcoming Saturday game versus Baylor at David Booth Kansas Memorial ...
Lance Leipold won’t have to worry about his Kansas football team taking on BYU, Cincinnati, UCF or Houston any time soon, but Leipold expects the four future Big 12 programs will be “fine additions” to the conference. Asked during Monday’s Big 12 media teleconference to share his thoughts on the league expanding, Leipold noted the four schools “from a football perspective have all been highly ...