KU Football

KU coaches as confident as ever playing Locklin in multiple positions

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, ...

KU alumni hope stadium rebuild will secure football program’s national position

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, ...

KU football drawing on team effort to muster pass rush

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 ...

KU wide receivers training to get the most out of every catch

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 ...

KU linebackers’ ability to slot into various spots will be key to group

It’s not out of the question, in a linebacker room led by position coach Chris Simpson, that a No. 4 player coming off the bench, “a utility guy that I could bounce around and get guys off the field" as Simpson puts it, could earn more snaps than one of his three starters. Simpson ...

McDuffie, Thompson add new ingredients to established KU backfield

To bolster its diverse backfield going forward, the Kansas football team will look to one player in his first collegiate season and one in his last. Even with workhorse starter Devin Neal set for an encore after his strong 2022 campaign, Daniel Hishaw Jr. back after consecutive season-ending ...