It won’t be long before head coach Lance Leipold and his Kansas football staff will have to settle on a depth chart for the Jayhawks’ Sept. 3 opener versus South Dakota. Not that Leipold is in any kind of hurry. “I think some of it just kind of naturally flows,” Leipold replied on Tuesday, when asked at KU’s media day about a time frame for determining first and second units. “Yeah, it’s coming. ...
Lance Leipold could tell you all about Trevor Wilson’s speed and potential as a playmaker, but when the Kansas football head coach gets to talking about the receiver he has gotten to know since their time together at Buffalo, Leipold’s train of thought soon takes him to how Wilson made an impression on a personal level. This past February, when Leipold’s father, Ken, died, Wilson reached out to his head ...
August is the time of year when college football veterans usually keep their eyes on younger teammates, to see which ones look like they might be capable of taking on larger roles in the fall. Kansas super-senior Kwamie Lassiter II said a couple of underclassmen in particular have impressed him so far this preseason. Sophomore Steven McBride, Lassiter reported, is really standing out by making plays — and ...
As much as head coach Lance Leipold and his staff had learned about their Kansas football team through the first week-plus of preseason practices, the coaches found out even more about the Jayhawks during a scrimmage on Sunday night. Speaking with media members for the first time since KU’s initial camp scrimmage, Leipold said Tuesday during the program’s media day he enjoyed seeing some players who ...
The Kansas football team’s coaches and players knew the moment that Karon Prunty left the program via the transfer portal earlier this summer that the cornerback position would look vastly different for the Jayhawks this fall. Now that the team is into its second week of preseason camp, cornerbacks coach Chevis Jackson is starting to get a clearer picture of what to expect from his group. “They’ve shown ...
Though Lance Leipold didn’t seem especially worried about it on Saturday, following his Kansas football team’s ninth preseason practice, the head coach and his staff still have a quarterback conundrum on their hands. The Jayhawks’ QB competition has a little less than three weeks to sort itself out before either sophomore Jalon Daniels, senior Miles Kendrick or junior Jason Bean becomes the Week 1 starter ...