Head coach Lance Leipold announced the Kansas football team’s captains for the 2025 season following the conclusion of Monday's opening game-week practice. Center Bryce Foster, one of the three players chosen, found himself tearing up as the Jayhawks went through their post-practice prayer. “I kind of caught myself,” Foster said. “I don’t know, it gave me goosebumps, gets me excited, and I’m just ...
Ahead of Kansas' week-zero season opener against Fresno State on Saturday at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium, head coach Lance Leipold announced KU's first depth chart of the 2025 season. Offense Quarterback: Jalon Daniels; Cole Ballard; Isaiah Marshall Running back: Daniel Hishaw Jr.; Leshon Williams Wide receiver: Doug Emilien OR Cam Pickett Wide receiver: Emmanuel Henderson Jr.; Bryce Cohoon Wide ...
Kansas coach Lance Leipold has often drawn a parallel over the years between the ongoing stadium and football complex renovations and the gradual construction of the KU football program. Over the course of the 2024 offseason, those two projects intersected when Leipold was faced with overhauling his team’s roster following the departure of a massive, momentous senior class, and all the while the stadium ...
Asked to consider the long-term impact of his time with the Kansas football program, Rich Miller admits he thinks about certain things differently now that he’s become a father. “It kind of changed my perspective on laying foundations,” Miller told the Journal-World in a recent interview. Raising a baby is a new experience for him, but building something from the ground up is much more familiar. As a ...
The reopening of David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium is the culmination of about $450 million in comprehensive renovations, the result of a plan first unveiled in August 2023 and executed following the conclusion of the 2023 football season. This comprises the first phase of the University of Kansas’ Gateway project, which accounts for approximately 70% of the stadium, and was erected by a workforce that at ...
Kansas brought in Syeed Gibbs from the portal in large part due to his experience as a nickel back. That was where he did much of his work during his one season at Georgia Tech. On the other hand, his acclaimed 2023 season at Rhode Island, the one that garnered several FCS freshman All-American honors, was spent primarily at outside corner. On a KU defense that is expected to feature five defensive backs far ...