Steven Johnson may not have taken the junior-college route coming out of high school, but he knows a little something about unconventional paths to football success.
Facing a dearth of Division I offers out of high school, he attended a year of prep school at Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. After suffering a devastating knee injury almost immediately, he walked on at Kansas in 2008, where he worked ...
A big hype-building week for Kansas football, which featured four preseason all-conference first-team selections and a ninth-place projected finish, culminated late Friday night with the unveiling of two new uniforms.
Kansas Athletics posted a video featuring two new designs on social media after a tease early in the day, revealing fresh all-blue and all-white uniforms.
The blue jersey features a pair of white ...
There's so much to learn about the four new Big 12 schools beyond the nuances of their football and men's basketball programs. While there will certainly be no shortage of commentary in the months and years to come about how BYU, Cincinnati, Central Florida and Houston match up against Kansas in those two ways — on the gridiron and on the court — they will in reality be taking on the Jayhawks in eight times ...
For the first time in 13 years, Kansas has not been picked to finish last in a preseason Big 12 Conference football poll.
Beginning with the 2011 season, the first Big 12 campaign following the departures of Colorado and Nebraska, the media poll had projected the Jayhawks in last place — generally by a wide margin — every year. That changed Thursday afternoon when KU was selected as the ninth-place team in ...
What a difference a year has made for Kansas football — at least in terms of public perception.
The Big 12 Conference announced Wednesday that its 2023 preseason all-conference football team, voted on by media members, includes KU junior quarterback Jalon Daniels as its offensive player of the year. Junior running back Devin Neal, redshirt senior offensive lineman Mike Novitsky and junior cornerback Cobee ...
It's easy to forget with the near-daily developments in the conference-realignment news cycle, but Kansas hasn't actually had a new league opponent for 11 years, since TCU and West Virginia first joined the Big 12 back in 2012.
It will therefore be a significant adjustment for KU to have four new schools, BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston, to play annually in some sports and near-annually in others. ...
