The Kansas football team has done something it did not do last season: add a kicker. It got a good one. Previously a kickoff specialist for three years at East Carolina, Laith Marjan went 16-for-17 on field goals and 42-for-44 on extra points during the 2024 season at South Alabama. He was a semifinalist for the Lou Groza Award for the nation’s best kicker and a second-team All-Sun Belt selection. “A year ...
Updated 3:10 p.m. Monday, Dec. 16: The Kansas football team began to rebuild at another position of need on Sunday night. Former Alabama cornerback Jahlil Hurley will join KU next season. He shared a social media post by On3's Hayes Fawcett announcing the move, citing Hurley's agent Casey Gunn. The Jayhawks are looking to strengthen an inexperienced position group after losing Cobee Bryant and Mello Dotson to ...
Now that quarterback Jalon Daniels has locked in his return to Kansas for a sixth and final season, the KU football coaching staff has been tasked with finding players to catch his passes in 2025. On Sunday the Jayhawks added their first such player since Daniels' announcement, earning the commitment of former Ball State receiver Cam Pickett. “There’s a great opportunity for me to come and make an ...
On a night when he went on to shoot 5-for-9 from beyond the arc, Kansas guard Zeke Mayo had a decent opportunity in the opening minutes to lob a deep 3-pointer over N.C. State guard Michael O'Connell from the right wing. Instead, he bounced it in to center Hunter Dickinson in the post, sending O'Connell flying out of the play towards the Wolfpack's bench. Dickinson immediately returned the favor in one fluid ...
The Jayhawks trotted out some lineups on Saturday afternoon that could generously be described as creative. With KJ Adams and Flory Bidunga in severe foul trouble throughout and Hunter Dickinson in a dicey position himself with three fouls midway through the second half, KU had to play far more four-guard lineups than usual and gave some key minutes to reserve forward Zach Clemence. “It was kind of like a ...
The Kansas football team has bolstered its secondary with Big 12 Conference experience. Former Oklahoma State safety Lyrik Rawls became the fourth transfer-portal commitment of KU’s offseason roster rebuild and the third on the defensive side of the ball, as he announced on Friday morning that he will join the Jayhawks next season. Rawls, the only safety KU is known to have offered a scholarship in the ...