Kansas offensive lineman Bryce Cabeldue (77) looks to make a block during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Iowa State, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023, in Ames, Iowa. Kansas won 28-21. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Updated 1:54 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15:

One of Kansas offensive tackle Bryce Cabeldue’s legs is stronger than the other.

“I’ve been kicking off my left foot forever,” Cabeldue said. “I’ve been pushing off my left leg forever, and so now trying to push off my right foot or my right leg, it’s a little bit weaker.”

Cabeldue has spent his past four years with the team, including 33 starts over the last three seasons, playing primarily on the right side of the offensive line. Besides a time in the spring of 2023 when he looked to make a move to left tackle, he’s been firmly ensconced on the opposite side. Until now.

Cabeldue said on Wednesday that he had just completed his fifth day in this year’s fall camp of working primarily at left tackle.

“It’s not as fluid as I would be on the right side,” he said, “so (I’m) just trying to put my body into phase, trying to just figure out all the different steps and techniques that I need to master.”

It’s a significant shift, foreshadowed by head coach Lance Leipold earlier in camp, that has seen him swap places with onetime Wisconsin transfer Logan Brown into the role of protecting Jalon Daniels’ blind side.

photo by: Mike Gunnoe/Special to the Journal-World

Kansas offensive lineman Logan Brown stretches during warmups at fall camp on Monday, August 5, 2024, in Lawrence.

“Obviously, Bryce has been our right tackle for a long time,” offensive line coach Daryl Agpalsa said. “He actually welcomed the challenge. I talked to him about it before we did it and he was very excited about the opportunity. He knows for his opportunity even at the next level, right, to have that ability to show people that you can play both sides is really, really important.”

Cabeldue said the conversation with Agpalsa went something like this: “Hey, do you think you could do it?” “Yeah, probably.”

“It’s been good,” Cabeldue said. “I’ve been playing right tackle for the past four years and so trying to make the switch, it’s just a little bit different. You have to train your hips a certain way, but I think overall, I think it’s been pretty good, I just got to get used to it a little bit better.”

Brown, who missed most of 2023 due to injury, is now playing right tackle, which as Agpalsa pointed out he had done at Wisconsin, with offseason standout Nolan Gorczyca also working his way into the tackle rotation.

The switch between Brown and Cabeldue is one of a series of late-summer experiments as the Jayhawks try to find their best starting five with the season opener just two weeks away. Agpalsa was asked on Wednesday if the alignment with Cabeldue on the left and Brown on the right would stick.

“Maybe, I guess,” he responded. “I think we have another week or so until we kind of finalize it.”

Offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes said on Thursday that he’s primarily looking for consistency out of Cabeldue.

“We used to always think of the left tackle as being significantly different from the right tackle, and I don’t think it’s as true anymore,” he said. “Although I would say, it’s still the side that the quarterback turns his back to most often, and so you’re looking for the guy who can be your most productive and consistent pass blocker there.

“Sometimes that guy ends up being your best run-blocking tackle as well, so you lean a little bit into the left-side runs, and sometimes just the opposite’s true. So we’ll have to let that play itself out.”

Cabeldue said there’s not much difference in how the offensive line operates when he is at left tackle versus when Brown is.

“Logan’s a good player,” he said. “I think Coach is just trying to figure out where we play the best at.”

Longtime starting guard Michael Ford Jr., who has himself played on both sides of the line, echoed the sentiment: “I think (Brown and Cabeldue) are both good at their own specific things, but it doesn’t really change much for me.”

Agpalsa’s hope is that the experimentation will increase the overall versatility of the offensive line.

“To have the multiplicity with both of them to put them on one side or the other is a great advantage for us,” he said.