JB Brown's work as a weak-side linebacker in Kansas football training camp has frequently pitted him against the Jayhawks' stable of powerful running backs. “They’re a bunch of physical and fast dudes," Brown said after a recent practice. "I’ve hit heads with Dev (Neal) and (Daniel) Hishaw a couple times." But Brown might be better prepared for that contact than anyone else on the roster. Teammate Rich ...
When Torry Locklin first committed to Kansas, he was a lefty dual threat quarterback, a two-star prospect as assessed by Rivals and the 18th addition to David Beaty’s class of 2018. A grayshirt season, four years and two coaching changes later, Locklin is still in Lawrence as a running back, wide receiver, special teamer and whatever else offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki needs him to be in the madcap ...
Chris Harris Jr. said he remembers when, as a student at Kansas, he was looking forward to upcoming renovations to the school’s football stadium. That was in 2007, when Harris was a true freshman on the Jayhawks’ football team that won the Orange Bowl. Fast forward 16 years, and Harris, now a 12-year NFL veteran and four-time Pro Bowl cornerback, was on hand at the Jayhawk Welcome Center on Tuesday to see ...
Freshman guard S'Mya Nichols led Kansas in scoring for the second consecutive exhibition game, center Danai Papadopoulou scored 14 points back in her native Greece, and Laia Conesa and Nadira Eltayeb each put up double-doubles as the KU women's basketball team beat Greek Select 108-52 on Sunday. The Jayhawks outrebounded Greek Select by a staggering 59-22 margin and used that dominance on the boards to build ...
In describing defensive end Austin Booker, any animal metaphor will do. His position coach Taiwo Onatolu calls the 6-foot-6, 245-pound lineman a "baby deer." "He can really open up and run," Onatolu said Monday. "So a guy that long that can change direction in (a) small area and still has that short-area quickness, that’s hard to find.” Teammate Hayden Hatcher opts for a less elegant reference point: the ...
As Kansas wide receivers coach Terry Samuel describes it, when a young receiver catches the ball, he's often so relieved that he ran the right route, and so shocked that it actually paid off, that he rarely knows what to do next. KU's receiving corps isn't quite that young anymore. The Jayhawks return a whopping seven of their top eight receivers from last season. Already possessing a firm grasp of the ...