As a holdover from Les Miles’ final staff at Kansas, running backs coach Jonathan Wallace had the chance to coach Pooka Williams Jr. in his first year with the program. Williams didn’t stick around long in 2020; the multi-year all-conference selection left the team midway through the ...
It might not have been quite as dramatic of a moment as when the 2025 Kansas Jayhawks got to practice in the newly renovated David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium for the first time last summer, but this year’s team made its own return to the friendly confines of the Booth on Friday ...
As Kansas coach Lance Leipold noted on Friday, it’s nothing new for the Jayhawks to make “late- or mid-to-late-camp adjustments” to their offensive line in service of putting the best possible group on the field by the time the season opener rolls around. A year ago, Amir Herring emerged ...
Kansas defensive tackle Eamon Smalls has garnered his fair share of nicknames over the years, and he’s certainly gotten accustomed to having “The Sandlot” quoted in his direction: ”You’re killing me, Smalls!” But nicknaming him after the Notorious B.I.G.’s second stage name ...
A host of Kansas football players tried their hand at saying “Rock Chalk” in British accents in a social media video KU posted in the spring, but only one actually called up an English parent to do it on his behalf. That was KU kicker Martin Connington, whose father’s side of the family ...
Twelve snaps on special teams were a valuable part of Kansas linebacker Malachi Curvey’s first year of college football. “It was good to get a feel for the game speed,” the redshirt freshman said. Like so many other freshmen in recent years, however, Curvey was limited to four games — ...
As a Cleveland native, Kansas passing game coordinator Jim Zebrowski has stuck with the Browns through thick and thin. That included the 2015 season in which John DeFilippo — by that point a veteran NFL quarterbacks coach whom Zebrowski had met through a mutual friend — served as their ...
Kansas linebacker Bam Crouch, as a fifth-year senior, has been around the block. Crouch played 40 games at Boston College, including as a full-time starter in 13 in 2024, and was a team captain entering the 2025 campaign before an injury limited him to four appearances and an unexpected ...