Football

Lubick back with KU as co-OC and tight ends coach

Updated 2:48 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 10: The Kansas football team is headed for a reunion with one of the architects of its offensive renaissance under Lance Leipold. Matt Lubick, the current offensive coordinator at Nevada, will return to the Jayhawks as co-offensive coordinator and tight ends ...

KU coaches discuss implications of Nickens’ multi-sport participation

One of the most intriguing members of Kansas football’s 2025 signing class owes his spot with the Jayhawks to a KU men’s basketball golf outing. Head coach Bill Self and his staff were on the links with 1993 World Series hero Joe Carter in Kansas City when the subject turned to Carter’s ...

More Jayhawks enter portal, per reports

Kansas wide receiver Jarred Sample and offensive lineman Harrison Utley have both entered the transfer portal, according to multiple reports on Monday afternoon. JayhawkSlant was first to report the news. Sample's departure further thins out a position group at which KU is already set to lose ...

Borland retires from coaching; McDonald promoted as replacement

Updated 6:56 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8: The Kansas football team is replacing another coordinator with an internal promotion for the second time in two days. Head coach Lance Leipold announced on Sunday evening that defensive coordinator Brian Borland is retiring from coaching and will be replaced ...

Zebrowski promoted to offensive coordinator

Head coach Lance Leipold and the Kansas football program moved quickly to fill their offensive coordinator spot after Jeff Grimes' reported departure for Wisconsin. Leipold on Saturday announced that Jim Zebrowski, the Jayhawks' co-offensive coordinator and longtime quarterbacks coach, has ...

Daniels announces he’ll return for final season in Lawrence

Updated 1:32 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 7: His early years with the Jayhawks were marred by injuries; then, in his first full season as the starter, he took until halfway through the year to truly find his stride. Now, quarterback Jalon Daniels, one of the faces of the Kansas football rebuild, is ...

Report: Grimes agrees to become Wisconsin’s OC

Updated 1:15 p.m. Friday, Dec. 6, 2024: The Kansas football program will enter 2025 with its third offensive coordinator in three years. ESPN's Pete Thamel reported on Friday afternoon that Jeff Grimes, who spent his first season in Lawrence in 2024 as KU's assistant head coach and offensive ...

Running back Morrison is latest Jayhawk with plans to transfer

A Kansas running back who could potentially have been in line for a big role in 2025 has announced that he plans to enter the transfer portal. Redshirt junior Sevion Morrison, who played three seasons at KU while primarily backing up running backs Devin Neal and Daniel Hishaw Jr., made the ...