Kansas kicker Laith Marjan says that whenever he misses a field goal, he takes it personally. Fortunately for Marjan, he didn't miss often in 2024 — at least during games. In his first year as a collegiate placekicker, after serving as a kickoff specialist at East Carolina, Marjan went 16-for-17 with South Alabama, with just the one kick from 50 yards into the wind against Northwestern State providing a ...
Levi Wentz may be in some sense one of the most experienced players on the Kansas roster, as a sixth-year senior, but he’s still young in the game of football as a whole. “Levi is one of those guys that his ceiling is huge,” wide receivers coach Terrence Samuel said. “He was kind of a guy that was playing out of position, that type of thing, coming up, and now he’s starting to blossom and see things ...
Kansas strength coach Matt Gildersleeve likes to stress that his conditioning program adapts to the needs of individual players — as he says, “you meet them where they’re at.” In the case of defensive tackle Marcus Calvin, when Calvin entered the program in 2023, that meant meeting a player at the point of coming from a high school that didn’t have a barbell in its weight room, as Gildersleeve has ...
Friday night's practice presented the first chance for the Kansas football team to spend any significant time in the revamped David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, but it might not necessarily have felt that way for at least some of the Jayhawks. The “EA Sports College Football” video game is “a little bit too correct” in its depiction of the yet-unopened venue, redshirt sophomore defensive tackle Marcus ...
Former Kansas guard Noah Shelby is transferring to Texas A&M, The Athletic’s Tobias Bass reported on Sunday morning. Shelby shared the news on his social media accounts. He spent one year at KU as a walk-on and redshirted, and will now play for his fourth school in four seasons after beginning his career at Vanderbilt and then moving to Rice. He will now become the third former Jayhawk to move to A&M ...
Former Kansas point guard Dajuan Harris Jr. has signed with the Kortrijk Spurs, the team announced on Sunday. The Spurs, also known as the House of Talents Spurs, play in the BNXT League, the top basketball competition for Belgium and the Netherlands. The team is located in Kortrijk in the Belgian province of West Flanders. This is the first overseas professional contract for Harris, who is coming off a brief ...