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 ...
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 ...
Among the new faces at Kansas’ spring practices this past week was newly hired co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach D.K. McDonald. After coming to Lawrence from Philadelphia, the 22-year coaching veteran is already making a strong impression on a defense searching for further ...
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” ...
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 ...
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 ...
Last year, the Kansas football team spent practically all of spring practice indoors. Not so this time around, as following an eight-week stretch of offseason training, the Jayhawks officially opened the spring of 2024 Tuesday on their outdoor practice fields. “Our guys have done a great ...
