WRITER: Benton Smith

Veteran D-linemen Eddie Wilson, Ronald McGee joining KU football with 2 years of eligibility

Although former Buffalo defensive linemen Eddie Wilson and Ronald McGee were on track to enter the 2021 season as seniors, Kansas football head coach Lance Leipold welcomed them to Lawrence as transfers this summer expecting both to play two years with the Jayhawks. The blanket waiver for an extra year of eligibility issued by the NCAA in 2020 made the prospect of adding two veteran D-linemen Leipold and his ...

'Never flinched': How KU football C Mike Novitsky earned Lance Leipold's respect

Before Mike Novitsky became a starter as a redshirt freshman at Buffalo, his head football coach, Lance Leipold, doesn’t mind admitting now that the coaching staff was more than a little concerned about the state of the team’s center position at the time. It wasn’t that Leipold — Novitsky’s coach then at UB, and now again at the University of Kansas — and his assistants doubted Novitsky’s talent ...

Lance Leipold: Former Buffalo players helping KU football's transition to new era

Six of the newest players on the Kansas football roster already know what it’s like to play for head coach Lance Leipold and the assistants who followed him from Buffalo to Lawrence. And much in the way Leipold envisions staff familiarity helping the Jayhawks in his first year in charge of the program, because Leipold also is aware of what he can expect out of the UB transfers, KU’s new head coach thinks ...

CBs coach Chevis Jackson sees talent within mostly inexperienced KU football secondary

In a Kansas football secondary where experience will be scarce entering the 2021 season, cornerbacks coach Chevis Jackson still sees some promise within the young group. While recently discussing the depth on the back end of KU’s defense, Jackson presented his opinion that although some of the underclassmen players didn’t see much game action this past fall, that didn’t mean they were ...

'A lot of potential': Deep group of KU football RBs impressing position coach Jonathan Wallace

The Kansas football offense no longer boasts a playmaker as hyped as former standout rusher Pooka Williams. However, running backs coach Jonathan Wallace not only likes the depth the Jayhawks have within the position group he oversees, Wallace also thinks highly of the players’ methods of going about their business. “Man, there’s a lot of potential,” Wallace said recently. “And I think that these ...

KU football adds transfers, freshmen and walk-ons to roster

The additions of several new players to the Kansas football team are now officially official, as the program updated its published roster this week. With both incoming freshmen and transfers arriving on campus for summer courses and workouts, the Jayhawks’ list of players for the 2021 season now looks more complete than it did in the spring. The latest version includes eight new players with varying degrees ...