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 ...
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, ...
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 safety Landon Nelson joined the Kansas football team as a 168-pound preferred walk-on who “didn’t talk at all," then-first-year head coach Lance Leipold and strength coach Matt Gildersleeve saw potential in him. “They forced me to be uncomfortable,” Nelson said. “They forced me ...
Coming up on Aug. 23 is the start of Jalon Daniels’ final season. Coming later on is another season just over a year away in which KU no longer has Daniels as its starting quarterback — something it hasn’t experienced since 2021. The rest of the Jayhawks’ quarterback room, headlined ...
In past years, Kansas quarterback Jalon Daniels took on a particular look when he was truly locked in. Strength coach Matt Gildersleeve called it his “game-day eyes” — presumably because it was most closely associated with some dozen days a year on which the Jayhawks were about to go to ...