Before the Kansas football team played its season finale Saturday night against West Virginia, the program honored a group of 15 players — which included both seniors and super-seniors — who were about to experience the final game of their KU careers. Earlier in the week, head coach Lance Leipold called this year’s class a “special group” with “outstanding” leaders in it. “While many (other ...
— Kansas (2-9 overall, 1-7 Big 12) vs. West Virginia (5-6, 3-5) • 6 p.m. kickoff, David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium • Game-time forecast: 52 degrees, clear, 0% chance of rain • TV: FOX Sports 1 • Radio: KLWN, FM 101.7 / AM 1320 Keys for Kansas 1. Turn the corner with tackling Even as Kansas stopped getting blown out and began playing a competitive brand of football the past two weeks, the ...
One of the unsung contributors to the Kansas football team’s late-season upswing, redshirt senior offensive lineman Joey Gilbertson had never started a game for the Jayhawks until he was called upon for KU’s road finale at TCU. A fill-in starter at left guard for the injured Malik Clark, Gilbertson, who also came in late to help the Jayhawks win at Texas in overtime the week before, played every snap for ...
A Kansas football team that looked dead in the water not long ago found a source of revitalization for the season’s final weeks when the Jayhawks unexpectedly landed on a new starting quarterback. “First of all, if y’all are not entertained by Jalon Daniels and the rest of this Jayhawk squad, I don't know what to tell you,” super-senior KU receiver Kwamie Lassiter II declared as he sat down for his ...
The Kansas football team found a new starting quarterback in Jalon Daniels. Now KU’s coaches are trying to concoct ways to keep the Jayhawks’ former No. 1 QB, Jason Bean, involved in a different capacity. Daniels officially supplanted Bean on the depth chart — after filling in for him due to an injury — for KU’s road finale this past weekend at TCU. But Bean was still involved in the game plan, just ...
When Kansas football players were informed after practice on Tuesday that a representative from the NFLPA Collegiate Bowl was in attendance and about to address the team, Kyron Johnson “knew something was up.” Even so, Johnson didn’t expect he was about to learn that the official was there to extend him an invitation to the postseason all-star game. “It was exciting. My heart dropped,” Johnson said ...