Team wide receiver LaQuvionte Gonzalez (1) tears down the field for a touchdown during the Spring Game on Saturday, April 9, 2016 at Memorial Stadium.

Overall, it appears Kansas University’s football team has more depth than at the end of spring football 2015, but still not have sufficient depth by Big 12 standards.

The defense in particular looks deeper and more experienced.

Yet, the search is on for signs that Kansas will have an easier time scoring than in recent seasons, beyond the addition of explosive wide receiver LaQuvionte Gonzalez.

Generally, winning a Big 12 football game requires scoring somewhere in the 30-to-50-point range. Kansas has scored more than 21 points just once in its past 28 Big 12 games. Repeat: Kansas has scored more than 21 points just once its past 28 games. During that stretch, Kansas has been shut out in more games (two) than it has scored more than 21 points.

Iowa State defeated KU, 34-0, in Ames in 2013. Texas dominated Kansas, 23-0, in 2014 in Lawrence. Montell Cozart was the quarterback in both games.

The only blackjack-busting number came in a 34-30 loss to TCU in Lawrence with Michael Cummings at quarterback and Clint Bowen on the sideline as interim head coach in 2014.

Before looking at KU’s offensive prospects for 2016, let’s review how things have gone in recent seasons. Starting with 2007 and ending in 2015, KU’s average-points-per-game in all games has been: 42.8, 33.4, 29.4, 17.1, 22.3, 18.2, 15.3, 17.8, 15.3.

Anemic.

Overmatched.

Boring.

In a conference brimming with drop-dead-gorgeous swans for offenses, Kansas turned into the ugly duckling six seasons ago and hasn’t been able to turn it around.

No coincidence, Kansas has changed quarterbacks as rapidly as politicians change policy stances. Starting the season with one quarterback and benching him in favor of another has become the rule, rather than the exception for the Jayhawks. Kale Pick gave way to Jordan Webb. Dayne Crist and Jake Heaps stepped aside for Montell Cozart. Cummings replaced Cozart, and so did Ryan Willis after Cozart suffered a season-ending injury.

Throughout the spring, Willis nursed a wrist injury suffered playing basketball, and head coach David Beaty spread out the reps among Cozart, Deondre Ford, Keaton Perry and Carter Stanley. Freshmen Tyriek Starks, a dual-threat from New Orleans likely bound for a red-shirt season, and Dagen Haehn from Corinth, Texas, and the five returning players means Kansas has seven quarterbacks on the roster.

Willis easily is the best passer of the bunch, particularly on deep balls, and has a pretty talented group of receivers to target, led by Gonzalez and sophomores Steven Sims and Jeremiah Booker.

A year ago, the line didn’t give Willis, a drop-back passer, ample protection, and he took a pounding. Three of the projected five starting offensive linemen are entering just their second seasons in the program. They all look as if they made good use of the offseason conditioning program, but that doesn’t change the fact that they still will be at a disadvantage in trying to keep NFL prospects from rocking Willis on a weekly basis.

Willis does not give the defense an extra helmet to worry about in the running game, so unless Cozart beats him out, the running backs must account for all the productivity. Speed is not in short supply there. Ke’aun Kinner rushed for 564 yards and five touchdowns, both team-high totals in a year Kansas had just 10 rushing and 11 passing touchdowns. Kinner’s quick and shifty, a natural running back. Reserves Taylor Martin and Ryan Schadler both have sprinter’s speed and are even more explosive than Kinner, but haven’t yet demonstrated Kinner’s ability to make tacklers miss. Given the frequency of injuries to college running backs and KU’s lack of depth at the position, incoming freshman Khalil Herbert from Florida will get a shot to compete as soon as he hits campus.

On paper and on the field for two open spring practices, it looks as if scoring points remains a challenge for the Kansas football team.