Losing three safeties to the transfer portal and bringing in four new ones gave Kansas an opportunity to change its athletic profile at the position. In Corey Gordon, a veteran previously of Louisville and Baylor, and Christian Pritchett, a younger transfer from Georgia Tech, KU has a pair of taller and more coverage-inclined defensive backs than it has been able to employ at the strong safety position in ...
The Kansas soccer team’s season-opening exhibition will be, as usual, the first KU athletic competition of its academic year. It just arrives a little deeper into the Jayhawks’ time on campus this time around. Thanks to a revised calendar for the women’s soccer season, new this year, KU has had a bit more time to settle in ahead of Saturday’s preseason match at 1 p.m. against Iowa. “I feel like ...
When Kansas coach Lance Leipold discussed the acquisition of Georgia transfer safety Jaden Harris this spring, he made sure to note how helpful it could be for Harris to provide competition for returning starter Taylor Davis. In the spring, in the summer and into fall camp, Harris has by all accounts done just that. “I’m never going to shy away from somebody pushing me,” said Davis, who recorded 41 ...
Ever since the NCAA removed limits on so-called “countable coaches” in college football — allowing more members of a team’s staff to do hands-on coaching in practices and games than ever before — the significance of analyst roles has dramatically increased. Kansas has 14 analysts on staff this season, the vast majority of whom are new this year, and all of whom are now listed as assistant position ...
The NFL preseason begins on Thursday, and while no former Kansas players will be taking the field for the Arizona Cardinals or Carolina Panthers at the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio, it’ll only be another week before they make their exhibition debuts. The contingent of KU football players in the NFL now consists almost exclusively of Lance Leipold-era Jayhawks. That’s after the Baltimore Ravens placed ...
It’s hard to tire out Kansas strength coach Matt Gildersleeve, but the process of onboarding KU’s class of transfer-portal additions back in the winter did just that. “I would do it tenfold over again,” he said. When the 2025 season concluded, KU’s longtime director of sports performance looked back on the offseason that had preceded it — the first one in head coach Lance Leipold’s tenure that ...