Kansas offensive coordinator Jim Zebrowski equates what running back Leshon Williams might have been experiencing when he came to KU to a “midlife crisis” — even as he acknowledges that Williams is too young for that sort of label. “Take football out of it,” Zebrowksi said. “I think sometimes in life, people need a reboot. Sometimes you just need a new job … You’ve seen it all over. I think he ...
In an interview on the “Inside College Basketball Now” podcast with CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein, Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self weighed in on the hypothetical hiring process for his eventual successor at KU whenever he chooses to retire from coaching. The interview, which was filmed on July 21 prior to Self’s two-day stint at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, includes KU’s 23-year coach supplying ...
The Kansas state high school football championships overseen by KSHAA in 2024 took place at three separate host sites: Emporia State University (6A, 5A and 4A), Hutchinson Community College (3A, 2A and 1A) and Greensburg-Kiowa County High School (8-player D-I, 8-player D-II and 6-player). In previous years, state championship games were dispersed among an even greater number of host locations, with Pittsburg ...
The Kansas football team did not use a lot of different players at linebacker in 2024. Middle linebacker Cornell Wheeler (529 snaps) and weak-side linebacker JB Brown (608) were on the field together most of the time whenever they were both healthy, and Taiwan Berryhill Jr. (405) filled in otherwise. Safety Marvin Grant played a hybrid role, but no other actual linebacker appeared on more than 15% of KU’s ...
Kansas’ senior wide receiver Emmanuel Henderson Jr. only has five career catches, but you wouldn’t know it from the way his teammates and coaches talk about him. It was apparent from early in the spring that the Jayhawks thought they had something special in Henderson, a former five-star running back from Alabama who left the Crimson Tide for KU in search of playing time in his final season. Fellow wideout ...
The NFL preseason is imminent, and with a recent influx of Kansas football players into the league after the graduation of last year’s sizable senior class, any given exhibition game has about a 70% chance of featuring at least one former Jayhawk. That’s because there are now 15 players who finished their college careers at KU scattered across the league, playing for 14 of its 32 franchises, and that’s ...