Jalon Daniels got his opportunity in the NFL preseason and made the most of it. The former longtime Kansas standout, who went undrafted in the spring after six years with the Jayhawks, has won the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ No. 2 quarterback job. “A true find and a very cool story,” wrote ESPN’s Ian Rapoport, who first reported the news. The Bucs cut Connor Bazelak, Daniels’ initial competition, on ...
The 15th-ranked Kansas volleyball team battled a pair of top-five foes to begin its season at the Opening Spike Classic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but lost in four sets to each. The Jayhawks had their fair share of opportunities to take the upper hand against both host No. 4 Pitt (on Friday) and No. 5 Stanford (on Sunday), but never pulled ahead in the match. KU led 23-21 in the third set at a 1-1 tie with ...
Kansas wide receiver Tate Nagy had a quiet freshman season, which considering that he was immediately thrust into duty as the Jayhawks’ full-time punt returner was a rather favorable outcome. The wideout from Overland Park, recently converted from high school quarterback at Blue Valley West, proved to be sure-handed throughout the year. He dropped one punt against West Virginia that immediately bounced back ...
A Kansas team that contains more newcomers than returning players and features six freshmen, several in prominent roles, will get introduced to high-level college volleyball in a hurry. The Jayhawks are set to open their season on Friday at 5:30 p.m. Central time with a road match against Pittsburgh as part of the Opening Spike Classic. The Panthers are fourth in the nation to open the season and have already ...
One could be forgiven for pigeonholing the 6-foot-1, 230-pound Yasin Willis as a certain type of runner based on his track record from two years at Syracuse. Certainly his 17 combined receptions for an average of four yards over his two seasons with the Orange don’t indicate that he could potentially be a threat out of the backfield. But in meetings with coaches upon arriving at Kansas this spring, Willis ...
Kansas defensive end Leroy Harris III has only been on campus for a little over a year, but that hasn’t stopped him from dishing out some choice pieces of advice to younger players. “I try to help out where I can,” Harris said. One of these was particularly useful to his teammate Garrett Martin. Martin, a redshirt freshman end from Scottsdale, Arizona, wasn’t satisfied with his day-to-day routine ...