As long as DeAndre Harper has been playing competitive football, he’s been changing positions. By the time Harper was a second-team all-state lineman at Omaha North High School in Nebraska, he had already moved outside once, from guard as an underclassman to tackle as an upperclassman. As a freshman at Northwest Missouri State, he remained at tackle — only to move to guard during a redshirt year at KU. At ...
The 12th-ranked Kansas soccer team had a 12-game unbeaten streak in regular-season nonconference matches snapped on Thursday evening with a 1-0 loss to No. 19 Ohio State at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. Senior forward Amanda Schlueter put the Buckeyes ahead in the final minutes of the first half, and OSU goalkeeper Peighton Northrop made six saves on KU’s 14 total shots to preserve a clean ...
Austin Alexander, then a redshirt freshman, took advantage of the opportunities he garnered in fall camp while the more experienced D.J. Graham II was dealing with nerve damage to earn a starting job at outside cornerback in 2025. Then came the first game action of his career. “He had to get thrown in the deep end,” Kansas defensive backs coach Brandon Shelby said. “And every once in a while he got some ...
Way back in 2023, head coach Lance Leipold and then-offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki took little time to identify wide receiver Keaton Kubecka as someone they wanted to deploy early in his collegiate career. “What he has shown, really, is that he’s been able to handle the load and the moments that we’ve asked him to step in,” Leipold said ahead of Kansas’ matchup with Kubecka’s hometown team, ...
Growing up in Pickerington, Ohio, in the Columbus suburbs, Roman Pearson played wide receiver. It wasn’t until his freshman year at Pickerington Central High School that his defensive backs coach moved him over to free safety. By his junior season, he was a cornerback. And by the time he came to Kansas this spring, he had recorded five collegiate interceptions in his past three seasons across stints at ...
A “suburban, calm type of vibe” was precisely what cornerback Roman Pearson was seeking in the transfer portal, and he found it in Lawrence — to an even greater extent than he had expected, in fact. “I mean, it’s lively here, like the fans and everything, but I didn’t expect it to be so calm and peaceful,” Pearson said. That makes it an ideal fit for the fifth-year senior from Pickerington, ...