WRITER: Benton Smith

Andrew Parchment will play extra senior year elsewhere

As the Kansas football offense looks to rebound from a disappointing 2020 season, it will have to do so without receiver Andrew Parchment. Any hopes the Jayhawks had of bringing Parchment back for an extra senior year officially vanished on Friday, as the 6-foot-2 wideout announced via his social media accounts that he entered the NCAA’s transfer portal. Parchment, who joined the Jayhawks as a junior college ...

Benton Smith: Now a veteran, Ochai Agbaji better equipped to move past one bad outing

More unflappable as a player and versatile as a scorer than he was earlier in his career, Kansas guard Ochai Agbaji recovered quickly from his zero-point outing this week versus Creighton. The junior’s ability to redeem himself served as an important development in an otherwise trivial Friday night rout at Allen Fieldhouse. No one in the gym looked as effortless or effective as Agbaji, who put up a game-high ...

Caldra Williford, 3-star Class of 2022 DB from St. Louis, commits to KU

It will be a long time before he can actually join the Kansas football program and contribute, but as of Thursday night that’s the plan for Caldra Williford, a touted high school junior from St. Louis, Mo., who already had six other Power Five scholarship offers. Williford, a Class of 2022 defensive back at Lutheran North, announced his commitment to the Jayhawks via Twitter, tagging KU head coach Les Miles, ...

KU-Texas football game canceled, ending Jayhawks' 2020 season

The Kansas football season came to an abrupt conclusion Thursday afternoon, two days before the Jayhawks’ would-be finale versus Texas. The Longhorns shut down football operations on Thursday, UT Athletic Director Chris Del Conte announced, due to a COVID-19 spike, with nine players and 13 staff members testing positive for the virus, along with 14 other players and 15 more staffers isolating due to contact ...

Jayhawks find another bench lineup for key 2nd half spark vs. Creighton

With the Jayhawks only six games into their schedule, head coach Bill Self admits it’s sometimes hard for him to know from one matchup to another how he will deploy the players on this Kansas basketball roster. No. 5 KU’s 73-72 home win over No. 8 Creighton on Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse provided the latest example of Self’s flexibility. Not only did the Jayhawks’ crunch time lineup include backup ...

Former prep QB Daniel Hishaw Jr. had no problem moving to RB for Jayhawks

When Daniel Hishaw Jr. joined the Kansas football program this year, the former high school standout from Moore, Okla., already knew plenty about making plays with the ball in his hands. All Hishaw had to do once he became a Jayhawk was get used to doing that without playing quarterback. “It’s not hard,” the true freshman running back said earlier this week, a couple days removed from leading KU in ...