Two of the Kansas football team’s key veteran leaders, junior safety Kenny Logan Jr. and super-senior receiver Kwamie Lassiter II landed on separate preseason watch lists on Thursday. The Louisville Sports Commission announced Logan is one of the 57 players in the running for this year’s Paul Hornung Award, presented to college football’s most versatile player. Meanwhile, Lassiter’s name appeared on the ...
For the second time this summer, the Kansas football program has landed a three-star cornerback from the Dallas area, as Anthony Davis announced late Thursday night his commitment to the Jayhawks. “Let’s ride,” Davis tweeted out to mark the occasion, mentioning two of the KU assistants who led his recruitment, receivers coach Emmett Jones and cornerbacks coach Chevis Jackson, in his announcement. A ...
Nearly five years ago, when it was time for Mason Finley to make his Olympics debut in Rio de Janeiro, the former University of Kansas thrower discovered the stage felt even larger than he had imagined. Now that Finley knows what to expect, though, he anticipates a different experience awaits him in the men’s discus next week in Tokyo. “I remember going to the ’16 Olympics and seeing all of my idols ...
With the start of preseason camp in early August on their minds all summer, Kansas football players have made sure to invest much of their down time in preparing on their own for the first practices of the Lance Leipold era. According to a couple of the team’s leaders, the Jayhawks are resolutely supplementing their typical offseason strength and conditioning workouts and staff-led meetings and video review. ...
Not one of the three players who started at least one game at cornerback for the Jayhawks last year will even be on the roster when the Kansas football defense makes its 2021 debut in the fall. Potential KU super-seniors Elijah Jones (Oregon State) and Kyle Mayberry (Utah State) opted last winter to transfer out of the program. And then, following the spring semester, Karon Prunty (South Carolina) exited via ...
Since Lance Leipold agreed to take on the renovation project that is the Kansas football program, the team’s newest head coach said he has come to appreciate the excitement his players have for the new staff’s vision, which he hopes will make the Jayhawks consistent winners. Eventually. “I think there's no simple quick fixes in building a program or in rebuilding a program,” Leipold said during Big 12 ...