Football

More than a dozen Jayhawks set to participate in inaugural Big 12 Pro Day

As a slew of departed Jayhawks angle for favorable positioning ahead of next month's NFL Draft, a total of 16 are participating in a new event hosted by the Big 12 Conference. For the first time, the Big 12 is holding a centralized Pro Day that encompasses all the league's members, instead of ...

New quarterback Marshall embraces comparisons to Jalon Daniels

The weight of high expectations could be heavy upon the shoulders of Kansas' freshman quarterback Isaiah Marshall, especially given that fans, media and coaches alike have taken to comparing him to current starter and redshirt junior Jalon Daniels. In fact, co-offensive coordinator and ...

KU tight ends adjusting to life after Fairchild

Towards the end of last season, it started to set in for the Kansas tight ends that they would have to face a season without Mason Fairchild. "We started thinking about it more and more, where we’re not going to have Mason next year, and it got pretty important to us to retain a lot of the ...

Spring football notebook: KU experimenting at linebacker, defensive end

The Kansas defense has some holes this offseason, and the team is getting creative in order to fill them. Craig Young, a converted safety who served as something between a safety and a linebacker in the hybrid “Hawk” role for KU’s defense, has graduated. But over the weekend, redshirt ...

Dye brothers standing out among KU safeties

Filling a vacancy left by veteran safety Kenny Logan is atop Kansas defensive coordinator Brian Borland’s to-do list as spring practices stretched into the weekend. Meeting with reporters after Saturday’s practices, Borland pointed to several names “starting to step up a little bit” ...

Grimes adjusts to new role, gets deeper look at offensive personnel

During Kansas’ first week of spring practice, new offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes is starting to get a feel for what sort of group he has this year. Grimes, who previously served as an offensive coordinator and tight ends coach for Baylor from 2021 to 2023 and BYU in 2020, ranks highly ...

‘Speeding ticket’ provided new offseason motivation for KU players

The Kansas football staff wanted to foster an even more competitive environment over the course of the team’s unusually long eight-week offseason. So it started issuing citations to its players. On Feb. 28, early-enrollee freshman cornerback Jalen Todd posted on social media a picture of a ...