One more former Kansas football player will get a chance at an NFL roster spot as the preseason begins in earnest. Longtime KU tight end Mason Fairchild has signed with the New Orleans Saints, the team announced Saturday morning. The Andale native, who caught 82 passes for 1,111 yards over ...
Kansas City, Kan. — When Kansas revealed that it would play its nonconference home football games at Children's Mercy Park during the 2024 season, head coach Lance Leipold got a message from a friend who had experienced one of the select few previous American football games played at the ...
Kansas safety Mason Ellis has all the measurables. The redshirt sophomore from Mulvane said on Thursday that he has run as fast as 22.01 mph, after beginning his career at KU in the low 20s. In the spring, strength coach Matt Gildersleeve, distributor of faux "speeding tickets" for KU's best ...
The NCAA changed a key rule in June, one that made even the typically measured Kansas coach Lance Leipold say recently, “I can’t tell you how excited I am.” “Moving forward, any staff member may provide technical and tactical instruction to student-athletes during practice and ...
Leyton Cure and Jeff Grimes have something in common: They have both executed plays on which the tight end gets to throw the ball. Cure, who transferred to Kansas from Fort Hays State in the offseason, recounted his memorable completion to reporters on Wednesday, following his second day of ...
Kansas cornerback Cobee Bryant may keep some opposing quarterbacks up at night, but late Monday he was the one dealing with a bout of insomnia. “I couldn’t go to sleep, man,” he said. “My girl (asked) why I’m still up, then around 5 o’clock, woke up — man, I can’t sleep, I’m ...
The sun will rise on a new season of Kansas football on Tuesday morning, as the Jayhawks take on their first day of fall training camp ahead of the 2024 season. The year will undoubtedly center some familiar elements, owing largely to a returning group of skill-position players — Jalon ...
