Kansas’ senior wide receiver Emmanuel Henderson Jr. only has five career catches, but you wouldn’t know it from the way his teammates and coaches talk about him. It was apparent from early in the spring that the Jayhawks thought they had something special in Henderson, a former five-star running back from Alabama who left the Crimson Tide for KU in search of playing time in his final season. Fellow wideout ...
The Kansas football team did not use a lot of different players at linebacker in 2024. Middle linebacker Cornell Wheeler (529 snaps) and weak-side linebacker JB Brown (608) were on the field together most of the time whenever they were both healthy, and Taiwan Berryhill Jr. (405) filled in otherwise. Safety Marvin Grant played a hybrid role, but no other actual linebacker appeared on more than 15% of KU’s ...
The NFL preseason is imminent, and with a recent influx of Kansas football players into the league after the graduation of last year’s sizable senior class, any given exhibition game has about a 70% chance of featuring at least one former Jayhawk. That’s because there are now 15 players who finished their college careers at KU scattered across the league, playing for 14 of its 32 franchises, and that’s ...
Since linebacker Jon Jon Kamara arrived on campus a year ago, the Kansas football coaches have pulled out some creative one-liners about what he used to look like as a high school player. When Kamara first made it to Lawrence as a freshman in the fall of 2024, head coach Lance Leipold remarked that in the photos on his online recruiting profiles, “He looked like he could have played in the Little League World ...
Johnny Thompson Jr. didn’t know he had seen Jalon Daniels play in high school until after Thompson arrived at Kansas. It didn’t take long for the young running back to put two and two together and realize that the senior quarterback he had watched playing in high school for Lawndale, back when Thompson was a freshman in 2019, was the one now leading his college offense. “Ended up doing some research, and ...
As soon as Boden Groen suffered the shoulder injury that cost him his senior season at Rice, he knew he’d be back playing again the following year. “Once that happened, I was already mentally getting ready for this time,” Groen said on Tuesday. The tight end from Santa Ana, California, who attended powerhouse Mater Dei High School, only played four games for the Owls in 2024, meaning he was able to ...